Frank Lloyd Wright in front of model of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1956
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U.S. military tanks parade near the Capitol Building in Washington DC, 1947.
Photograph by Volkmar K. Wentzel, National Geographic
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Mosaic Magazine » The Ten Commandments
Leon Kass
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Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.
Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Genet—and Simone Weil—have their authority with us because of their air of unhealthiness. Their unhealthiness is their soundness, and is what carries conviction.
The Way to Produce a Person - NYTimes.com
We live in a relentlessly commercial culture, so it’s natural that many people would organize their lives in utilitarian and consequentialist terms. But it’s possible to get carried away with this kind of thinking — to have logic but no wisdom, to become a specialist without spirit.
Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart.
In the digital universe, knowledge is reduced to the status of information. Who will any longer remember that knowledge is to information as art is to kitsch-–that information is the most inferior kind of knowledge, because it is the most external?
Andddd dream come true. 152+ miles, new American record, silver individual, and team gold. Go USA.
