February 2012
73 posts
So, my brother's kinda famous and awesome. →
The Internet is mankind’s emerging ‘I’ →
Extremely brief overview of what constitutes a “collective consciousness.” Definitely makes writing my thesis on the phenomenology of isolationism in the 21st century look more appealing.
“Loving just one is loving too little; loving all is being superficial; knowing...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
thedandelionmovement:
“Okay” has got to be my least favorite word.
When people ask, are you okay? I wonder if they really want to hear me say, I have diabetes, my car broke down twice this week, and I just can’t seem to find a job I like.
The worst are restaurant managers walking to tables asking, Is everything okay? No, there are children in Africa who haven’t eaten in days, how could you...
“Speaking frightens me because, by never saying enough, I also say too much.”
– Jacques Derrida (via welcomekirk)
“The man who first saw the exterior of the box from above later sees its interior...”
– Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thecolouroftruth)
Having too many Facebook friends can make you...
shortformblog:
354Facebook friends ought to be your limit source
» There’s nothing wrong with denying that friend request: A recent study presented at the annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology meeting asked a group of participants to check their friend’s status updates. After doing so, they rated their lives as “much less satisfying” than a group that didn’t check their news feed....
The Vulnerability of Man →
“People underestimate their personal probability of encountering negative events” Wrote Frank McKenna in the British Journal of Psychology (1993, Volume 84), “…it is not so much that individuals believe that negative events will not happen, but rather that these events are relatively unlikely to happen to them.”
In much the same way that children underestimate their own vulnerability,...
“According to the new physics, observer and observed are somehow connected, and...”
– Leonard Shlain (Art and Physics)
“To be a nice person it is necessary to be protected from crude contact with...”
– Bertrand Russell, Nice People
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via erikangstrom)
“There is little conjunction of truth and social ‘reality’. Around us...”
– R.D. Laing, The Politics Of Experience
