Tag: meaning
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Modernity Amplified
I thought this was an incredible example of how the world of signs and simulacra is impossible to separate from reality. They are on in the same, working on, and overlapping on, one another always. This has always happened in news and media of course, but the ad reads on podcasts are so “authentic” –…
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Important experiences/identities getting relegated
Perhaps only in anticipation, or in retrospect, is this a useful way of thinking, but here it goes: Very important periods of time in one’s life will end and be thought of as not so important; not unimportant, but just that one will think, “how interesting that I thought that would be the most important…
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Life is a series of…
decisions about whether you’ll clean up those 7 drops of milk the kid just spilled. Likewise, will I spend the 10 seconds it takes to not leave pants on the ground. Or get a haircut on time. Life is a series of decisions of whether I’ll do the thing that needs to be done right…
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Into My Arms
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 1997 We got up in two phases this morning. Shepherd first, going to school. Greta and Goldie next, going nowhere thankfully. As it all started up, changing a diaper (Goldie) and getting a banana (Greta), I think I just got lucky and caught a sense of its beauty. And…
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Get a life
Here is one of those things that when read I nod at the end and go, “Yes. It’s like that.”