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Henry Miller: Few Can Escape the Treadmill
“To lose sight of the beauty of ideas and of hope and opportunity, and to frustrate the right to be needed, is to be at the dying edge.
To be a part of a throwaway mentality that discards goods and ideas, that discards principles and law, that discards persons and families, is to be at the dying edge.
To be at the leading edge of consumption, affluen
... See moreRest in Peace David Foster Wallace, you would have loved Barbie. We swim in a wretched sea of meaningless mush, and when you have to trudge through nothing but slop all day, every day, it gets harder and harder to not numb out. I really cannot emphasize it enough: there’s so much and it just keeps coming. There’s lots to do. There’s lots to buy. Th... See more
Catherine Shannon • Everyone Is Numbing Out
This rant via Shalom Auslander
I was thinking about sex the other day because I was having a really depressing day, and a dead body had been found by the pier, and as I was taking my son to school and waiting at a traffic light, a homeless man in a mad fury began circling my car, shouting and spitting, and it felt like forever before the light turne
... See moreLe désastre est complet. Que cela plaise ou non et même si le ton utilisé n’est pas le même, le verbe moins génial, la philosophie sous-jacente rappelle de loin en loin le Céline du Voyage au bout de la nuit qui se lamente d’un monde devenu fou dans sa course éperdue à l’urbanisation galopante, la productivité esclavagiste, le travail à la chaîne,
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