October 2010
41 posts
“The Darjeeling Limited” as an exercise in white middle-class aspiration. The lingering attention on consumer objects (perfume, ipod docks, expensive loafers) betrays the essentially middle-class consumer lust of the seemingly upper-class characters.
Probably an important movie, but I still don’t have to like it.
Dawn Devotions, 22nd October →
Check out photos from this morning’s Dawn Devotional concert with Jamuna Devi and Mali Devi. Magic.
“Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set...”
– Jean Sibelius
OH YEAH?
WHERE IS YOUR CICERO NOW?
“I think there is a divide, but I think the dividing line isn’t around...”
– Like a Fake 19th Century Novel
“In the spring semester of 2002, Denton helped an old source from Budapest teach...”
– Nick Denton, Gawker Media, and journalism’s future
Probably the most revelatory paragraph in this piece. A classic example of spoilt, dogmatic cynicism. Relativism and subjectivism are part and parcel of the postmodernism still in vogue today, but neither denies that we can’t make something...
you are but one tributary to a river of inanity.
Huxley’s Genius and the Goddess: one imagines that the perfect world, to Aldous Huxley, is one in which he and a friend of learning (who has a striking resemblance to Huxley) are given a large television which constantly exhibits the parade of human miseries, joys, triumphs and especially defeats. They are paid a modest sum (enough at least to pay their bills at a few dependable West London...
Under Western Eyes: a bunch of photos with no... →
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“His Mormonism forbids coffee, but he consumes a lot of Diet Coke and chocolate.”
– The taste of diet coke and chocolate, one after the other.
“What makes the propounding of virtue illusory — just so much rhetoric — is that...”
– Hegel on Wall Street
