Kurt Vonnegut:
The best advice from my own era for you or for just about anybody anytime, I guess, is a prayer first used by alcoholics who hoped to never take a drink again: 'God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the
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Jan 21, 2025 \\\
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Louise Erdrich
The Marginalian
Poem
Louise Erdrich:
Resist your disappearance
into sentimental monikers,
into the violent pattern of corporate logos,
into the mouth of the unholy flower of consumerism.
Resist being consumed.
Resist all funding sources but accept all money.
Cut the strings and dismantle the web
that needing money
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I think Paul Graham's blog about wokeness could also used to describe and explain anti-wokeness, and last part he wrote about how "we" prevent future similar outbreaks is so priggish.
Maria Popova:
In one crucial respect at least, the human animal does not pass the mirror test of self-knowledge: We move through the world by impulse and emotion, then look back and rationalize our choices, declaring ourselves creatures of reason.
Dec 22, 2024 \\\
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4 Columns
Elias Khoury
Palestine
Nakba
Why Facts Don't Change Our Minds:
“As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding,” Sloman and Fernbach write. And here our dependence on other minds reinforces the problem. If your position on, say, the Affordable Care Act is baseless and I rely on it, then my opinion
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