To give someone control in a video game is to enable them to make mistakes, horror comes from simply living with the consequences.

• Jacob Geller

In Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa describes Nepantla, a Nahuatl word for in-betweenness. A space where you are not this or that but where you are changing

Gandhi is not an anti-modern as much as an internal critique. The kind of modernity that arose in Europe which he saw spreading in India, he said there were alternative of modernity, which did not take the same route as Europe. There might be a different modernity.

Gandhi calls ahinsa sadhan. The concept of sadhan does not map neatly into the western framework of means. Sadhana is part of a tri-partite framework. If you wanted to understand any purposeful action you need the telos, instrument and how to use the instrument. The procedure usually doesn’t come in the binary of the means-ends framework of the Wes

Purva-Paksha refers to the thoughts of predecessors. There’s a prejudice where all Indian Philosophers, anything worth saying has already been said done in Vedas. Series of thinkers in the past, conflict, their views form a ladder. Truth can be seen by climbing the ladder (cute metaphor)

cumulative process (fu rand)

‘Intellectual Tradition is a ladd

Many thinkers (including Einstein) discuss creativity as a kind of “combinatory play.” Reading gives us more pieces to play with—more combinatory possibilities. Just as honey from different regions takes on different flavors, the combination of our reading produces different flavors in our own thought and writing.

growth feels uncomfortable because you've outgrown the old ways of being within yourself, and the new ways of being still aren't familiar so they feel unsafe. at the same time, there are parts of your old self that you miss, but also fear of a new chapter because you've never done it before.

i know that once this period of distress is over, good wi

i’ve found it incredibly difficult to come to terms with the fact that people can just come and go out of our lives and all we are left with is grief and loss. most of the people we meet in life are just passing moments. you’ll know them for a brief period before they are a stranger again and there’s nothing you can do about this. you don’t want to

The Trouble with Passion also raises more existential questions about the prioritization of passion among career decision-makers.

What does it mean to center paid employment in one's self-reflexive project?

How does it perpetuate a culture of overwork and close off other meaning-making opportunities? And in what ways might the popularity of the passi

In any case, I stopped believing that "theo-ry" had the power to ruin literature for anyone, or that it was possible to compromise something you loved by studying it. Was love really such a tenuous thing? Wasn't the point of love that it made you want to learn more, to immerse yourself, to become possessed?

- Elif Batuman,

The Possessed: Adventures w