Jagad
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Jagad
I have thousands of photos of my children but few that I’ve set aside to revisit. I have records of virtually every text I’ve sent since I was in college but no idea how to find the ones that meant something. I spent years blasting my thoughts to millions of people on X and Facebook even as I fell behind on correspondence with dear friends. I have ... See more
sublimeinternet.substack.com • "What Does Sublime Actually Do?"
We have become archivists of the self, I thought, curators of a life half-lived. Each countless photograph of a wonder, of dinner, of a view, of our children, of the utter banality of our everyday lives, was not a memento, a way of remembering the things we did, but instead evidence of the poverty of our engagement with the present moment.
M. E. Rothwell • All Hail the Cloud
La tecnología tiende a borrar justamente lo que hace valiosa a la experiencia:
Lo irrepetible (ese momento único que no vuelve).
Lo impredecible (la sorpresa, lo inesperado de estar ahí).
En un mundo mediado por pantallas, la experiencia directa se reemplaza por la ilusión de que “ya la vivimos” porque la vimos en una foto o en un video.
Por qué las pe
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"Heidegger called “the distress of the West” is really the absence of distress: “Crisis, what crisis?” The real crisis of our times is the absence of crisis." (Kevin Perry, Philosophy)
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The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith.