Language and Thought
Looking at the connections between the language we use and the thoughts we have
Language and Thought
“The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too.” - Cory Doctorow, Walkaway
WORLDBUILDING: Multiplayer collaging the future
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Socrates said that manual laborers make bad friends and bad citizens because they have no time to fulfill the responsibilities of friendship and citizenship.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
Work makes a mockery of freedom.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
I like the term economism . It describes how economic thinking and practice have become ingrained into all sorts of aspects of our lives, even non-economic ones. In today’s world governed by economism , everything seems to need to be measured by economic logic: am I using my time efficiently?
Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #78
Haven’t heard this term before, but I think it follows from the collapse of things into measurements. We started with measuring money as a collapse of information, and that led to collapses of other aspects of the world as a proxy for money where money isn’t available to measure value.
Like most social and political theory, the story Hobbes and his successors told was really unacknowledged autobiography.
Bob Black • The Abolition of Work
The concept of communication is sustained, generated by technology, so really with the Internet we attain the highest limits of communication. But what I would ask is, ‘Who is it that communicates?’ Who is it? There is one terminal and then another. There are two terminals, two specific areas of abstraction which change the information. But also, a... See more
Remember the Future • Tweet
Communication
The ideas aren’t all gold, but they seem to find the people who want them, and they start to give life.
Nicholas Goodey • Resistance and Embracing Your Nature
Ideas don’t need to be perfect. The ones that are the best find their audience. But only when shared.
Isn’t that the desire of every heart? To be chosen ever so carefully by a pursuer of authentic beauty? To be cherished and allowed to be as one truly is, as one has been created to be before the pain of betrayal and selfish ambition.
To be known. Chosen. Always cherished. Often reread and appreciated for the unique creative work that it is.
No more.
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To be known. Chosen. Always cherished. Often reread and appreciated for the unique creative work that it is.
No more.
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Kelly Gawitt • In the Quiet Library of the Heart: The Soulful Journey of Being Known
This hit deep
If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
Ideas are most valuable when shared (AND ACCEPTED) - Twitter bad example, because of the second part