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Remember that the basic rule of vocabulary is use the first word that comes to your mind, if it is appropriate and colorful.
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue))
It is an old compulsion to try to impose a narrative on our lives, especially when looking for meaning in our existence. But life does have a natural progression, a natural flow that Millennials ought to have simply participated in, and many feel it’s not flowing as it should.
Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See more
Many felt there were certain things that should have fallen into place by... See more
Bride Jabour • ‘A late blooming into misery’: why Millennials are unhappy
millenial malaisin and sortakasten
amongst the reasons i've theorised, the ubiquity of media (specifically, nostalgia-driven and self-referential media), where no one seems to age or "mature”(whatever that means). the other side of the theory involves, of course, capitalism. the oppressive conditions that might lead us to turn inward, seek distraction and perform a "simpler” time perpetually— to willingly blind ourselves to the crippling realization that we grew into a world much more hostile than any previous generation had to face. i miss vine, btw. dab and all that.
It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more
This quote isn’t that funny anymore once you realize that it is our reality. Economism has pervaded not only politics (economic growth goal) or our private lives (e.g. self-optimization) but also future thinking: Everything has to have a business case now! Visions of a... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
what’s the vibe at the end of the world?
seeking a vibe for the end of the world.
status: #Project #Draft
type: #Video
the world is ending.
then again, the world has been ending for a very long time.
if you want to be philosophical about it, the world has been ending from the moment the dictionary/Anthropocene began. another way to look at it, the
... See more"Write in a way that comes naturally," "Revise and rewrite," "Do not explain too much," and the rest; above all, the cleansing, clarion "Be clear."
William Strunk JR. and E.B. White • The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition
Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformism:
So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop