Taline Frantz
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Taline Frantz
One of the saddest things to me is the cultural decay cycle in our new age of virality.
Sub-cultures that took years to form through meaning are essentially destroyed within days or weeks.
If you think about it, a niche culture builds their own language, symbols, aesthetics or rituals to... See more
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“Compared with music all communication by words is shameless; words dilute and brutalise; words depersonalise; words make the uncommon common.”
The Master and His Emissary Quotes by Iain McGilchrist
At 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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There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
