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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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death
life
simulacra
post-modernism
end-of-the-world
cinema
armageddon
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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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irony
intellectual-sophistication
post-ironic
sophistication
post-modern
post-modernism
nerdery
reddit
wisdom-vs-nerds
nerdiness
nerds
nerd
internet
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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post-modern
post-modernism
values-in-life
modernity
values
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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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post-modernism
nihilism
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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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pasenow
sleepwalkers
individual
post-modernism
universal
existentialism
uniform
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 |