Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
On Pick-Up Artists’ techne
I was checking out The Game book. It may be the expat loneliness, but a couple of expat friends came up independently singing the praise of that book and the whole pick-up artists / Venusian arts movement.
Doesn’t it strike obvious and sad how much of our culture is shaped by and built on technology? It has become our basic way of thinking. When we’re faced with a problem, we invent a technology or a process to solve it. Techne has over taken episteme and poiesisin all aspects of our life.
Isn’t it sad? A technology to find a solution for love, like it’s a finite problem or a challenge to measure up your skills. Follow a set of practices and you get the girl (all girls you want, like they are collectible items). You’re done. Problem solved.
Can such a culture express a new Don Giovanni or Valentino? I fear not.
Zürich Neujahr | Zurich New Years Eve Fireworks by Zürich | Zurich | Zurigo on Flickr.
It’s going to be fun.
Fonte: sandrapanda12
The Big Lie
Scritto da un ex-banchiere di Wall Street.
At the end of the day, the convulsion to come won’t really be about Wall Street’s derivatives malefactions, or its subprime fun and games, or rogue trading, or the folly of banks. It will be about this society’s final opportunity to rip away the paralyzing shackles of corruption or else dwell forever in a neofeudal social order. You might say that 1384 has replaced 1984 as our worst-case scenario.
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There should be more to America, Gore Vidal has written, than who pays tax to whom. It has been in Wall Street’s interest to shrivel our sensibilities as a nation, to shove aside the verities of which General MacArthur spoke at West Point—duty, honor, country—in favor of grubby schemes and scams and “carried interest” calculations. Time, I think, to take the country back.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Fonte: youtube.com
Mary and Max. Beautiful, sad movie.
[T]he stupider one is, the closer one is to reality. The stupid one is, the clearer one. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself. Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straight forward.
Fonte: shitty-rambo
I am Roberto. To be honest, I am a bit ashamed by this site. It's like a dumpster for all the thing that I find amusing, entertaining, interesting or just plain weird. It humbles you down to see that you are as dumb and uninteresting as your average internet dude... and maybe a little more.
