August 2010
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“People still think of themselves as members of nation states, not as citizens of the world. The identify themselves, which is to say they define their hopes and loyalties, as Americans or Russians or Egyptians. This puts us all in a most perilous position, because when we feel the inevitable pressure of our new transnational realities, our sympathies remain to parochial to do anything but...
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (adriansir/milkyfangs/perforatedveins) (via liars)
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“Conventional wisdom holds that memory is like a serial recording device like a computer diskette. In reality, memory is more dynamic—not static—like paper on which new texts (or new versions of the same text) will be continuously recorded, thanks to the power of posterior information…
Memory is more of a self-serving dynamic revision machine: you remember the last time...
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