February 2012
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romanticizing the norm
I don’t understand.
I understand appreciating the everyday, the routine, the pleasures of day to day life that tend to come to those of us with privilege, safety, and security.
But I don’t understand the fixation on it. Without the breaks from routine, we don’t see the everyday. We will fixate on ourselves and our routines, ignoring those around us. We become so concerned about...
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“I am only responsible for my own heart. You offered yours up for the smashing,...”
– Anaïs Nin
(via brutalite)
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zero and the circle
I think the symbol for zero fascinates me so much because it is also a full circle, something that generally symbolizes one-ness and whole-ness. It’s as if we needed a symbol for everything to symbolize nothing.
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“Modern discourse is not really comfortable with the word “soul,” and in my...”
– Reclaiming a Sense of the Sacred – The Chronicle of Higher Education examines how we talk about souls, an interesting parallel to how we talk about being human. (via)
“The trouble with a cheap, specialized education is that you never stop paying...”
– Marshall McLuhan (via curiositycounts)
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fuck chris brown; fuck all his money and power.
we’re all fucking idiots and tools to people like him with power. more
“The role of the imagination is to create new meanings and to discover...”
– Iconic designer and legendary curmudgeon Paul Rand on the role of the imagination. (via curiositycounts)
“We’re at the start of a revolution in the ways marketers and media intrude in —...”
– Joseph Turow, The Atlantic. A Guide to the Digital Advertising Industry That’s Watching Your Every Click.
A longread excerpt from Turow’s new book The Daily You.
(via futurejournalismproject)
“If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that...”
– (via shumbodynamedharry)
