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“We ought to observe also that even the small characteristics of things produced according to nature have something in them pleasing and attractive. For instance, when a loaf of bread is baked there are cracks in the surface, and these breaks, which are contrary to the purpose of the baker, are beautiful in their way,
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“Humans had set these machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary self-dom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.” Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune “What does the billboard say? ‘Come and play, come and play Forget about the movement’” Rage Against the Machine, Freedom We sojourn in a desert
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“We are living in a particular phase of history: freedom itself is bringing forth compulsion and constraint. The freedom of Can generates even more coercion than the disciplinarian Should, which issues commandments and prohibitions. Should has a limit. In contrast, Can has none. Thus, the compulsion entailed by Can is unlimited. And so, we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation. Technically, freedom means the
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Not with a bang, but with a malnourished whimper, will the new vita moderni perish. It will not be slain by fundamentalist revolutionaries or by the new breed of Chestertonian man, but rather, it will starve. Louise Perry wrote a fabulous article quite recently entitled “Modernity’s Self-Destruct Button.” She says this: “Put bluntly: The people
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“As a subjectivation apparatus, the smartphone works like a rosary- which, because of it’s ready availability, represents a handheld device too. Both the smartphone and the rosary serve the purpose of self-monitoring and control. Power operates more effectively when it delegates surveillance to discrete individuals. “Like” is the digital “Amen.” When we click like, we
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“In reality, here’s what inspiration, or whatever or whoever, has to say about that, however: in the worst-case scenario, the fairy tale element is the realest thing there is, the essential thing. Air, water, fire, earth as the four elements, and the fairy-tale as the fifth, the additional element. In a story, this one at
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