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 更多...
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.
2024年12月22日
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他人之见
4 Columns
Elias Khoury
巴勒斯坦
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 更多...
2024年11月27日
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他人之见
Long Now
Elements of a Durable Civilization:
It's the combination of fast and slow that makes the whole system resilient. Fast learns, slow remembers. Fast proposes, slow disposes. Fast absorbs shocks, slow integrates shocks. Fast is discontinuous, slow continuous. Fast affects slow with accrued innovation 更多...
