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| 1f2b483 | I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance. I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them. Some years after I'd left school, after I'd dropped out of college, I heard a few lines from Nas that struck me: Ecstasy, coke, you say it's love, it is poison Schools where I learn they should be burned, it is poison That was exactly how I felt back th.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 1fcfe07 | Each time a police officer engages us, death, injury, maiming is possible. It is not enough to say that this is true of anyone or more true of criminals. The moment the officers began their pursuit of Prince Jones, his life was in danger. The Dreamers accept this as the cost of doing business, accept our bodies as currency, because it is their tradition. As slaves we were this country's first windfall, the down payment on its freedom. After.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 365dc8e | To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world, before all the guns, fists, knives, crack, rape, and disease. The nakedness is not an error, nor pathology. The nakedness is the correct and intended result of policy, the predictable upshot of people forced for centuries to live under fear, The law did not protect us. And now, in your time, the law has become an excuse for stopping and frisking you, .. | police-brutality racism | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 713386d | I have raised you to respect every human being as singular. And you must extend that same respect into the past. Slavery is not an indefinable mass of flesh. It is a particular, specific enslaved woman whose mind is as active as your own, whose range of feelings as vast as your own, who prefers the way the light falls in one particular spot in the woods, who enjoys fishing where the water eddys in the nearby stream, who loves her mother in .. | black history race slavery | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 80f6032 | No matter was the professional talkers tell you, I never met a black boy who wanted to fail. | disappointment | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| c43b199 | She was nearly twenty, with dark hair, darker eyes, and a hint of something deeper within. There was a freshness about her that the surrounding harsh landscape had failed to eliminate. Anyone glancing at her would have thought her soft: a serious error of judgment. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| b7baf2f | Back to Jak-- Why does everyone always want to go back to Jakku? There's nothing there! Sand and junk and rocks and sand and quicksand and sand--I don't get it! | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 6b64dd2 | I'm not afraid of the dark I know. It's the dark I don't that terrifies me. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 5a0a939 | Revenge is little more than an adolescent concession to personal vanity. | Alan Dean Foster | ||
| 64d73ab | In Kant's description, ethical duty functions like a foreign traumatic intruder that from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic balance, its unbearable pressure forcing the subject to act "beyond the pleasure principle," ignoring the pursuit of pleasures. For Lacan, exactly the same description holds for desire, which is why enjoyment is not something that comes naturally to the subject, as a realization of her inner potential, but.. | duty happiness trauma | Slavoj Žižek | |
| cb28847 | It is the ultimate irony of history that radical individualism serves as the ideological justification of the unconstrained power of what the large majority of individuals experience as a vast anonymous power, which, without any democratic public control, regulates their lives. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 018d070 | On 11 September 2001 the Twin Towers were hit. Twelve years earlier, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. That date heralded the "happy 90's," the Francis Fukuyama dream of the "end of history" -the belief that liberal democracy had, in principle, won; that the search was over; that the advent of a global, liberal world community lurked just around the corner; that the obstacles to this ultra-Hollywood happy ending were merely empirica.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 1446294 | T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between "false" conflicts and the "true" conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a "false" one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its "truth": the Leftist emancipatory position." | philosophy religion | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 99d2348 | The primary vice of a bad person is precisely that he is more preoccupied with others than himself. Rousseau is describing a precise libidinal mechanism: the inversion which generates the shift of the libidinal investment from the object to the obstacle itself. This could well be applied to fundamentalist violence - be it Oklahoma City Federal Building, the Twin Towers - was what really mattered, not achieving the noble goal of a truly Chri.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 94e5e7b | hl lmtZhrwn `nyfwn? Hqyqy 'n lGthm rbm tbdw mHrb@ "Htlw! whkdh.." wlknhm `nyfwn fqT bTryq@ lmhtm Gndy nfsh, nhm `nyfwn blqdr ldhy yrydwn fyh 'n yD`w `y'q fy lTryq ldhy tmDy `lyh shy." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 06b24a3 | The Christian motto 'All men are brothers', however, also means that those who do not accept brotherhood are not men. | christian doctrine | Slavoj Žižek | |
| f094978 | It is as if, in today's permissive society, transgressive violations are allowed only in a "privatized" form, as a personal idiosyncrasy deprived of any public, spectacular, or ritualistic dimension. We can thus publicly confess all our weird private practices, but they remain simply private idiosyncrasies. Perhaps we should also invert here the standard formula of fetishistic disavowal: "I know very well (that I should obey the rules), but.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 5ea3d09 | If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted directly, why does it assume the "mystified" form of two consecutive acts each of which is staged as a free voluntary display of generosity? Here we encounter the paradoxes of forced choice, of freedom to do what is necessary, at its most elementary: I have to do freely what I am expected to do. (If, upon receiving a gift, I immediately retur.. | freedom generosity gifts politeness potlatch revenge vengeance | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 18aa3e9 | lm khtr 'n 'kwn mkhtlf@ mthlm l ykhtr 'Hd 'n ykwn shdh 'w Twyl. l ymkn ntq m 'nt `lyh fy hdhh lHy@ wlkn ymknk 'n tqrr m stSbH `lyh. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 252ee4a | ymknk ltGlb `~ lHzn wlwHd@ wHt~ lkhsr@ lfdH@ wlkn ldhnb yrfqk Ht~ mmtk. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 5ac24b3 | l ymkn llmr 'n ythrb mn dhth. ymknh tjhlh wlkn l ymkn lthrb bdan. | Jodee Blanco | ||
| 741707b | She is a cat," he thought. "That's all she is--a cat!" | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| eba4864 | It was not the site of the earth which surprised him - it was the smell. .... This earth and air smelled alive. There was the odor of plants, of water, of things which he could not even guess. The air was coded with a million years of memory. In this air people had swum to manhood, before they conquered the stars. .... It was the wild free moisture which came laden with the indications of things living, dying, sprawling, squirming, loving w.. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| c8dac43 | crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time. | Cordwainer Smith | ||
| 6f559d1 | but remember that I shall love your sorrow... | sorrow | Cordwainer Smith | |
| 0d4b8dd | THE MISCONCEPTION: You know when you are lying to yourself. THE TRUTH: You are often ignorant of your motivations and create fictional narratives to explain your decisions, emotions, and history without realizing it. | David McRaney | ||
| a30b903 | THE MISCONCEPTION: You are more concerned with the validity of information than the person delivering it. THE TRUTH: The status and credentials of an individual greatly influence your perception of that individual's message. | David McRaney | ||
| d5617ee | THE MISCONCEPTION: You rationally analyze all factors before making a choice or determining value. THE TRUTH: Your first perception lingers in your mind, affecting later perceptions and decisions. | David McRaney | ||
| 4afbcaf | You might be a great judge of character, but you need to be a great judge of evidence to avoid delusion. | David McRaney | ||
| b130238 | THE MISCONCEPTION: When someone is hurt, people rush to their aid. THE TRUTH: The more people who witness a person in distress, the less likely it is that any one person will help. | David McRaney | ||
| 624aa0d | People who use the number of friends they have on Facebook as a metric of their social standing are fooling themselves. You can share videos of fainting goats with hundreds of acquaintances and thousands of followers, but you can trust a secret only with a handful of true friends. | David McRaney | ||
| dc7e716 | Catharsis THE MISCONCEPTION: Venting your anger is an effective way to reduce stress and prevent lashing out at friends and family. THE TRUTH: Venting increases aggressive behavior over time. | David McRaney | ||
| 85de618 | You are unaware of the constant nudging you receive from ideas formed in your unconscious mind. | David McRaney | ||
| 37790ec | The psychologist Jonathan Haidt says many people who don't consciously believe in karma still believe deep down in some version of it, calling it whatever seems appropriate in their own culture. They see systems like welfare or affirmative action as disrupting the balance of the natural world. Slackers, they think, would get what they deserve if the government kept their noses out of it. Their bad karma would come around to crush them, but .. | David McRaney | ||
| 58fe689 | The research shows that groups of friends who allow members to disagree and still be friends are more likely to come to better decisions. So the next time you are in a group of people trying to reach consensus, be the asshole. Every group needs one, and it might as well be you. | David McRaney | ||
| fd96def | THE MISCONCEPTION: In all you do, you strive for success. THE TRUTH: You often create conditions for failure ahead of time to protect your ego. | David McRaney | ||
| 5112215 | Hundreds of experiments into the misinformation effect have been conducted, and people have been convinced of all sorts of things. Screwdrivers become wrenches, white men become black men, and experiences involving other people get traded back and forth. In one study, [Elizabeth] Loftus convinced people they were once lost in a shopping mall as a child. She had subjects read four essays provided by family members, but the one about getting .. | David McRaney | ||
| a567aca | there is a growing body of work coming out of psychology and cognitive science that says you have no clue why you act the way you do, choose the things you choose, or think the thoughts you think. Instead, you create narratives, little stories to explain away why you gave up on that diet, why you prefer Apple over Microsoft, why you clearly remember it was Beth who told you the story about the clown with the peg leg made of soup cans when i.. | David McRaney | ||
| f8022cd | kids who were able to overcome their desire for short-term reward in favor of a better outcome later weren't smarter than the other kids, nor were they less gluttonous. They just had a better grasp of how to trick themselves into doing what was best for them. | David McRaney | ||
| b4603aa | In the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. | David McRaney | ||
| e8036e8 | It isn't you don't want to help; you just don't want to help a cheater or do more than a slacker - even if your not helping leads to ruining the game for you and everyone else | David McRaney | ||
| 9f22abc | for any plan to work, every team needs at least one asshole who doesn't give a shit if he or she gets fired or exiled or excommunicated. | David McRaney | ||
| 3bb82fa | Whether it's playing guitar or writing short stories or telling jokes or taking photos--whatever--amateurs are far more likely to think they are experts than actual experts are. | David McRaney | ||
| 67425a5 | Don't let the Dunning-Kruger effect cast its shadow over you. If you want to be great at something, you have to practice, and then you have to sample the work of people who have been doing it for their whole lives. Compare and contrast and eat some humble | David McRaney |