Gus Guerrero
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Gus Guerrero
All of this can be described in one word--'Aiglatson'--which is 'Nostalgia' spelled backwards and is a word told to me by Gabriel Fackre to symbolize the yearning for things to come;
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
revering the future;
without being disrespectful to the past (remembering that once it was all that was humanly possible), preferring the dreams of the future to the... See more
From the broad temporality
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.
that this era forces us to make sense of, our existence is surely dependent
only on what it leaves behind.
That is, it forces us to imagine our lives as
the marks, remains and impacts we have left upon the Earth, without “our”
in
fl
uence to de
fi
ne exactly what was
meant
by these marks.
JSTOR: Access Check
“Don’t be a hunter-gatherer in the wild, competing for food. go build yourself a magical forest-farm, and grow your garden of nourishing things… keep growing your world. Feed yourself, and have plenty of abundance left over — to feed your guests.”
“The chief utility of a general theory... of strategy lies in its ability not to point out lessons, but to isolate things that need thinking about. Theory provides insights and questions, not answers.”
Strategy, Rediscovered? — Martin Weigel
he can write about anything he wants, but this freedom feels like a prison. “The less free I am, the freer I appear to be,” he tells the reader, in one of the book’s many takedowns of the creative life.
“Books are for reading. As straightforward as that may sound, books are still usually promoted with images of pristine books waiting to be read. Being a writer myself, the sight of my own unread books is somewhat unbearable. I prefer those copies that have been read and read to the point that they are almost falling apart. That have earmarks,
... See moreWhat we have is a compounded problem, in which people with generational wealth pull the levers on a society that they don’t understand. Whether corporate policies or social welfare or college financial aid, nearly every aspect of society has been designed by people unfamiliar with not only the experience of living in poverty but the experience of... See more