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Line – circle – motion
My pedagogy: I do not claim to know things that will make you more intelligent, more wealthy, or more satisfied. I do claim to have experiences in reading, working, and traveling that I enjoy passing along in exchange for your… Continue reading
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Daodejing 33
#33* Knowing others: lucidity. Knowing self: brilliance.† Defeating others: strength. Defeating self: discipline. Contentedness: wealth. Perseverance: will. Never losing self: endurance. Dead yet unforgotten: longevity. †The characters translated in these two lines both contain the glyph for sun. Lucidity is… Continue reading
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Dependents of the State – NYTimes.com
…if the poor are dependent on the state, so, too, are America’s rich. The extraordinary accumulation of wealth enjoyed by the socioeconomic elite — in 2007, the richest 1 percent of Americans accounted for about 24 percent of all income… Continue reading
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Dreaming Action, Risking Curiosity
“The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set-up by the non-dreamers” — William S. Burroughs “Exasperation with the threefold frustration of action — the unpredictability of its outcome, the irreversibility of the process, and the… Continue reading
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ARE YOU A POST MATERIALIST? | ellisnelson
Top notch overview of this concept over at ellisnelson.com. Kudos! …Ronald Inglehart developed the idea of post materialism in the 1970s as a sociological theory to explain an ongoing transformation of individual values within a society. He argued that as western… Continue reading
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