Sublime

The shock we’re experiencing now can’t be summarized as present shock, which happens when we become blindly obsessed with the present moment. Nor is it a form of future shock, which happens when we feel that change is taking place too quickly. Instead, the shock we’re feeling today is an affront to our most basic understanding of reality. And the m... See more

Hypothesis 2: The "bad taste" hypothesisThe "bad taste" hypothesis says that conventional wisdom on what art and science were "great" is consistently screwed up and biased toward the past.

Some colleagues I know even speak of an “ethics of weirdness”, something I hope to work on more and that would presumably involve risk, improvisation, nonsense, even magic, not to mention a refusal to retreat before the bizarre, the disturbing, the nonhuman, the unthinkable. To turn and face the strange; to stay with the trouble.

⚡️ SHOCKING⚡️ In 1994, this man exposed reality's greatest secret: Human consciousness directly shapes physical matter. Researchers worldwide mocked him. Called him a fraud. Until he showed the lab results. https://t.co/SQJn85kxyW