Chimwekele Okoro
@lilyofthevalley
Chimwekele Okoro
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
tubitv.comThis movie will break you.
Part 1: Arrival
podcasts.apple.comAt a certain point we’re gonna have to build up some machinery, inside our guts, to help us deal with this. Because the technology is just gonna get better and better and better and better. And it’s gonna get easier and easier and more and more convenient, and more and more pleasurable, to be alone with images on a screen, given to us by by people
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Analyzing our culture's pathological impatience with learning and the critical need for contemplation and time to claim true knowledge.
TRANSCRIPT
And yet you present this discovery to people that we wanted to know more about big ideas, that we want our brains to be stretched.
As a culture, you're right, we seem somehow bored with thinking. We want to instantly know. Right, right. I mean, you know, there's this epidemic of listicles. Why think about what constitutes a great work of art when
... See moreA lesson I need to learn: It's ok to disappoint other people if you avoid disappointing yourself.
The thing is, you probably have all the information you need already, you just can't bring yourself to sit down and listen to it, so you just keep chain-smoking podcasts and youtube videos, never really thinking, knowing deep down that the answers you seek are in the silence you're avoiding