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| f603e07 | One must be without error out here. Walk in a single file. Work quietly. Pack an extra number 2 pencil. Make no mistakes. But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson - not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. But the price of error is higher is higher for you than it is for your co.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| d3718b6 | I propose to take our countrymen's claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6a2ed14 | But you are human and you will make mistakes. You will misjudge. You will yell. You will drink too much. You will hang out with people you shouldn't. Not all of us can always be Jackie Robinson--not even Jackie Robinson was always Jackie Robinson. But the price of error is higher for you than it is for your countrymen, and so that America might justify itself, the story of a black body's destruction must always begin with his or her error, .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| e82f34d | It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| bf7aab8 | But the price of error is higher for you than it is for your countrymen, and so that America might justify itself, the story of a black body's destruction must always begin with his or her error, real or imagined... | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 6066335 | In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The series documented some 406 victims and 24,000 acres of land values at tends of millions of dollars. The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism. | american-history black-history institutional-oppression institutionalized-racism kleptocracy land-ownership slave-economy us-history | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| bf80c35 | The problem of race is deep and wide and requires seismic change. But if we look to government to solve it, we might as well feel hopeless. If we look corporate America to solve it, we'll be waiting a long, long time. And if we agree with Ta-Nehisi Coates, who tentatively suggests that "the only work that will matter, will be the work done by us," then we will truly despair, for we know how well that has worked. If we follow that track, we'.. | Benjamin Watson | ||
| 5dce9b3 | It was only after you that I understood the grip of my mother's hand. She knew the galaxy itself could kill me, that all of me could be shattered and all of her legacy spilled upon the curb like bum wine. And no one would be brought to account for this destruction, because my death would not be the fault of any human but the fault of some unfortunate but immutable fact of "race," imposed upon an innocent country by the inscrutable judgment .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4c85d47 | Struggle for the memory of your ancestors. Struggle for wisdom. Struggle for the warmth of The Mecca. Struggle for your grandmother and grandfather, for your name. But do not struggle for the Dreamers. Hope for them. Pray for them, if you are so moved. But do not pin your struggle on their conversion. The Dreamers will have to learn to struggle themselves, to understand that the field for their Dream, the stage where they have painted thems.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 3e76b76 | Bored whites were barbarian whites. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| fa16d8b | A separate society within America would depend on the mechanisms of American wealth creation, and wealth in America has never been created in absence of government policy, of banks willing to lend and a justice system willing to protect, and so this separatist nationalism revealed itself to be as flawed as integration, in that it, too, ultimately depended on the good graces of white people. | racism-in-america | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 0777ec3 | I was of the age when it was natural to seek out a wife, but by then I had seen tasking women promised to tasking men, and then seen how such "promises" were kept. I remember how these young couples would hold one another, each morning before going to their separate tasks, how they would clasp hands at night, sitting on the steps of their quarters, how they would fight and draw knives, kill each other, before being without each other, kill .. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 0ce5ed6 | whiteness] has no real meaning divorced from the machinery of criminal power. The new people were something else before they were white--Catholic, Corsican, Welsh, Mennonite, Jewish--and if all our national hopes have any fulfillment, then they will have to be something else again. Perhaps they will truly become American and create a nobler basis for their myth. I cannot call it. As for now, it must be said that the process of washing the d.. | american-history black-history blackness race racism racism-in-america whiteness | Ta-Nehisi Coates | |
| 270b383 | Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus,' wrote Wiley. 'Unless you find a profit in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 4554187 | They had me on my back. And then they all swarmed at once. Bony hands pawed at me. The grunts and groans rang in my ears. I screamed as their sharp fingers punctured my chest - and ripped it open. I kept screaming as they lowered their ugly heads and began to feed. | R.L. Stine | ||
| ebccf9f | Enjoy. | R.L. Stine | ||
| 286c6ea | I mean, who could think about sneakers when an invisible building was waiting to be discovered? | goosebumps r-l-stine | R.L. Stine | |
| f451dfd | Dominatio per malum. Power through evil. | R.L. Stine | ||
| d362780 | The scarecrow walks at midnight," he uttered in a low voice." | R.L. Stine | ||
| 3d2655a | My name is Abe Marcus. Ned and I are identical twins. We look exactly alike. Even Ma and Pa can't tell us apart. But we don't act alike. I am the serious twin. Maybe it's because I am two minutes older. | R.L. Stine | ||
| b886a7e | I became more and more confused. My brain got so fuzzy, I even began to wonder if I'd ever actually been a boy at all. Maybe I'd really been a bee for my entire life, and I'd just dreamed about being a boy. | goosebumps goosebumps-series r-l-stine rl-stine why-i-m-afraid-of-bees | R.L. Stine | |
| 5119384 | La ilusion es provocada por una especie de 'cortocircuito' entre un lugar en la red simbolica y el elemento simbolico que lo ocupa: quienquiera se encuentre en ese lugar es el destinatario, dado que este no se define por sus cualidades positivas sino por el propio hecho contingente de encontrarse en este lugar. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| fc08244 | Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle? | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 3ec919f | lqd khlq lmtZhrwn frG - frG fy Hq l'ydwlwjy lmhymn@, whnk Hj@ l~ lwqt lml msH@ hdhh lmwD@ lyjby@. hdh hw sbb 'nn lsn bHj@ l'n nqlq kthyr mn lhjmt lmwjh@ l "Htlw wwl stryt", fntqdt lmHfZyn lmtwq`@ shl@ bm ykfy llrd `lyh; hl lmtZhrwn m`dwn l'mryk? `ndm yz`m l'Swlywn lmHfZwn b'n 'mryk dwl@ msyHy@, f`lyn 'n ndhkr m hy lmsyHy@ fy lHqyq@: lrwH lqds, mjtm` lmw'mnyn lHr lmtswy lmtHd blHb. nhm lmtZhrwn hm mn ymthlwn lrwH lqds, fy Hyn 'n wwl stryt lw.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 4152d60 | Numa entrevista, afirmou o seguinte, a proposito de Solaris: <> | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 824fddf | a truly radical change is self-relating: it changes the very coordinates by means of which we measure change. In other words, a true change sets its own standards: it can only be measured by criteria that result from it. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 1955f86 | We can understand an attempt to ignore power as being just for the right of the people when conditions demand it. It's a very forceful weapon - maybe it will become more and more forceful. And you should never forget that the state is not 'up there'. The state functions only as far as it is recognized as functioning. I mean, people have tremendous power in organizing themselves just to ignore power. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 717bd49 | The limitation of the standard liberal attitude towards Muslim women wearing a veil is visible here, too. Women are permitted to wear the veil if this is their free choice and not an option imposed on them by their husbands or family. However, the moment women wear a veil to exercise a free individual choice, the meaning of wearing a veil changes completely. It is no longer a sign of belonging to the Muslim community, but an expression of t.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| f6d2862 | What is "true" thinking? Thinking is not solving problems. The first step in thinking is to ask these sorts of questions: "Is this really a problem?" "Is this the right way to formulate the problem?" "How did we arrive at this?" This is the ability we need in thinking." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| ddaeed9 | it is far too simplistic to claim that the specter of this self-engendering monster pursuing its ends regardless of any human or environmental concern is an ideological abstraction, and to insist that one should never forget that, behind this abstraction, lie real people and natural objects on whose productive capacities and resources capital's circulation is based and on which it feeds like a gigantic parasite. (...) the fate of whole swat.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 22b3f0c | Like love, ideology is blind, even if people caught up in it are not | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 71d7ff2 | I am an anti-capitalist because I believe we can improve on it. I believe that we can create the vision I have for a totalized system, a unified system, that can effectively do things. Stop global warming. Feed everybody. Settle disputes diplomatically, and when necessary, quash disputes militarily with proportional measure. This may sound unnecessarily harsh, but it needs to be said, because it is part and parcel of any type of system, if .. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 1e18f8b | A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And much poison at the end, for a pleasant death. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| c3ea311 | lmtZhrwn bbsT@ yd`wn mn hm fy lslT@ llnZr l~ 'sfl, l~ lhwy@ lmftwH@ tHt 'qdmhm | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| cb725fa | Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 2b15acb | an entity is free when it can deploy its immanent potential without being impeded by any external obstacle. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| df6f969 | ffy lmjtm` lsthlky lr'smly lmt'khr, tktsb "lHy@ ljtm`y@ lwq`y@" dhth `l~ nHw m smt zyf mumsrH, fyh ytSrf jyrnn fy lHy@ "lwq`y@" mthl mmthly wkwmbrs `l~ khshb@ lmsrH.. mr@ 'khr~, njd 'n lHqyq@ lnhy'y@ ll`lm lr'smly lnf`y lmnzw` lrwH hy nz` mdy@ "lHy@ lwq`y@" dhth, qlbuh l~ `rD shbHy." | الليبرالية-الجديدة | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 2385b87 | In short, one who loves the illusion of the good is eventually won over to actually loving the good. But how can love of the illusion of the good lead to love of the good itself? If one loves the illusion of the good and enacts this illusion in social intercourse, one might come to appreciate its worth and to love the good itself for its own sake. Correlatively, from the point of view of the spectator, loving the illusion of the good in oth.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| c3971ce | one cannot look "objectively" at oneself and locate oneself in reality; and the task is to think this impossibility itself as an ontological fact, not only as an epistemological limitation. In other words, the task is to think this impossibility not as a limit, but as a positive fact--and this, perhaps, is what at his most radical Hegel does." | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 87ee02d | The performative dimension at work here consists of the symbolic efficiency of the "mask": wearing a mask actually makes us what we feign to be. In other words, the conclusion to be drawn from this dialectic is the exact opposite of the common wisdom by which every human act (achievement, deed) is ultimately just an act (posture, pretense): the only authenticity at our disposal is that of impersonation, of "taking our act (posture) seriousl.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 8bc27ef | Another blatant case of regress as part of the capitalist progress is the enormous rise of precarious work. Precarious work deprives workers of a whole series of rights that, till recently, were taken as self-evident in any country which perceived itself as a welfare state: precarious workers have to take care themselves of their health insurance and retirement options; there is no paid leave; the future becomes much more uncertain. Precari.. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 76d55b9 | Se ena sumpan opou oloi anazetame to alethino prosopo kato apo to prosopeio, o kaluteros tropos na paraplanesoume einai na phoresoume to prosopeio tes idias tes aletheias | psychoanalysis psychology | Slavoj Žižek | |
| 9c3759a | in contrast to modern art, which causes displeasure-modern art, by definition, hurts. In this precise sense, modern art is sublime: it causes pleasure-in-pain, it produces its effect through its own failure, insofar as it refers to the impossible Things. | Slavoj Žižek | ||
| 61835be | God's recounting of the wonders of nature can be seen in one of two ways. One possibility is that the immensity of the natural world, in its merciless indifference, has nothing to do with the concerns of human beings. The desert does not care if you pray, and the rushing cataract will not pause for pity. Nature shows its blank, grand face to us, and we are nothing. Indeed Job recants of his protest, proclaiming 'for I am but dust and ashes... | Slavoj Žižek |