March 2012
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The Perils of Thinking Like an Individual →
It seems like common sense that the principles of sound financial management should be the same for people and governments, and for centuries moralists (and to a lesser extent economists) have frowned on excessive levels of individual debt. But the economy is not a single entity in any meaningful sense. Rather it’s a vast, complex system of hundreds of millions of workers and consumers, hundreds...
February 2012
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“The crowd is his element, as the air is that of birds and water of fishes. His...”
– Charles Baudelaire on the Flaneur, The Painter of Modern Life. (via sillynames)
“Imagine walking into a place, say a mega-chain copy shop in a strip mall. It’s...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan Reviews David Foster Wallace’s Last Novel, ‘The Pale King’: Books: GQ (via culturite)
“Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling”
– Andre Gide
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“Fred: Once in a while I play. Not in a band, I don’t play in a band...”
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Sharing Poetry: Derek Walcott, "Love After Love" →
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The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
Hüsker Dü - Something I Learned Today
Will Brand on Hirst's Spots Shows:
“There is, we recognize, a historical danger here. Someday, the record of this exhibition might be dug up by a young art historian, or perhaps a blogger like us, or perhaps some sort of future blogger who does things with brainwaves. They’ll see that there was a massive show spread across every location of the most successful gallery of the time, entirely comprised of one of the most...
Why The Future Will Be Much Better Than You Think →
What does the world really look like? Turns out it’s not the nightmare most suspect. Violence is at an alltime low, personal freedom at a historic high. During the past century child mortality decreased by 90%, while average human life span increased by 100%. Food is cheaper and more plentiful than ever (groceries cost 13 times less today than in 1870). Poverty has declined more in the past 50...
