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860dda3
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Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
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armageddon
cinema
death
end-of-the-world
life
post-modernism
simulacra
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Roger Zelazny |
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9004430
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"The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm, as mechanic minds take insults a bit too literally."
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intellectual-sophistication
internet
irony
nerd
nerdery
nerdiness
nerds
post-ironic
post-modern
post-modernism
reddit
sophistication
wisdom-vs-nerds
wit
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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a38e890
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Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur
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modernity
post-modern
post-modernism
values
values-in-life
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
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a9ce3ec
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Am I to leave this world as a man who shies away from all conclusions?
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nihilism
post-modernism
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Franz Kafka |
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a7110ae
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The uniform is that which we do not choose, that which is assigned to us; it is the certitude of the universal against the precariousness of the individual. When the values that were once so solid come under challenge and withdraw, heads bowed, he who cannot live without them (without fidelity, family, country, discipline, without love) buttons himself up in the universality of his uniform as if that uniform were the last shred of transcendence that could protect him against the cold of a future in which there will be nothing left to respect.
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existentialism
individual
pasenow
post-modernism
sleepwalkers
uniform
universal
values
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Milan Kundera |
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490a835
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The only benefit of a Campbell's soup can by Andy Warhol (and it is an immense benefit) is that it releases us from the need to decide between beautiful and ugly, between real and unreal, between transcendence and immanence.
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post-modernism
transcendence
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Jean Baudrillard |