February 2012
Looking Glass Self →
“I am not what I think I am and I am not what you think I am; I am what I think that you think I am.” -C.H. Cooley There are three main components of the looking-glass self (Yeung, et al. 2003).
We imagine how we must appear to others.
We imagine the judgment of that appearance.
We develop our self through the judgments of others.
Why America has more education and less to show... →
“Somehow or another, we have more people going to school longer and the net social impact is less intelligence per dollar spent
“…the Internet has been a playground for those “educated far beyond their capacity to undertake analytical thought.” What that means (not that his analysis necessarily needs explaining) is that our system of education is producing tremendous numbers of...
“every person, I suppose, has
their eccentricities
but in an effort to be...”
– Septuagenerian Stew - Charles Bukowski
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...”
– Rene Descartes
“The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Ram Dass
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been....”
– Isaac Asimov
“A trace is the apparition of a distance, however close that which it evokes may...”
– Walter Benjamin, fragment from the Arcades Project
The "education crisis" Myth →
“we are already producing more STEM graduates than the domestic economy can employ, meaning the only worker shortage that exists in America is a shortage of workers willing to toil at slave wages with no labor or human rights. But, alas, those facts don’t matter because the Great Education Myth isn’t about economic reality — it is an instrument of propaganda designed to distract attention...
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is...”
– George Orwell
“Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.”
– Nikki Giovanni
“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“That’s what real love amounts to—letting a person be what he really is. Most...”
– Jim Morrison
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of...”
– Stephen King
Same →
Are we cut from the same cloth, leaves from the same tree, singing different songs to the same melody?
movere →
“What motivates people? A common reply may include purpose, or autonomy or self-mastery. Or maybe status, prestige, money and other tangibles. For me, the first idea that draws to mind is self-discovery. But I have to ask myself, what does that mean? what does that entail? and how does that motivate me?
Motivation originates either intrinsically or extrinsically, from inside or outside....
ad astra →
But I am a star, burning in a sea of space; I have no arms, no hands to reach that destined place.
Gravity keeps my spin aligned, crushes my being to burst forth in shine.
There is no destination when I revolve around myself, no lost and found by which to mark my health.
I am not a man but a glow that beams across the hearts and minds, (those heavenly oceans) of imagining.
I am a star,...
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese
“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian
“A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however,...”
– Albert Camus, The Invisible Summer (1958)
