Sublime

Magic—Magenta paradigm5 Around 15,000 years ago, and perhaps earlier in some places of the world, humanity started to shift to a stage of consciousness some authors have labeled “magical.” This stage corresponds to the shift from small family bands to tribes of up to a few hundred people.

Le candidat Macron promet d’adapter la France au monde, de libérer les énergies, de faire sauter les carcans, de rendre la société plus fluide, de dépasser les idéologies, de sauter par-dessus les corps intermédiaires, d’émanciper les individus. En bref d’épouser, de manière ouverte et non plus cachée, exaltée et non plus honteuse, les évolutions d

His revolution in magic was one of taste, degree, and selection; Robert-Houdin seemed to crystallize a number of experimental trends, including some, like performing in evening clothes or emphasizing sleight of hand, which had already been introduced by other magicians.

I resent the suggestion that a machine can make me bad. But I resent quite equally the suggestion that a machine can make me good.

Maria Popova, who writes the popular site The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), spends her days reading old books and essays. She’s passionate about finding ideas, beauty, and wisdom in these texts and then connecting them in her own unique conversation with the world.

That is the unique tragedy of the plutocratic state to–day; it has no successes to hold up against the failures it alleges to exist in Latin or other methods.

The Swiss Protestant reformer Zwingli was even more explicit. God, he argued, gave us the divine law: to love thy neighbor as thyself. If we truly kept this law, humans would give freely to one another, and private property would not exist. However, Jesus excepted, no human being has ever been able to live up to this pure communistic standard. Ther