tag > Narrative
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As bedtime stories, I’m telling my 5-year-old Homer's Odyssey—from my questionable memory, remixed as pirate saga. It’s making me appreciate just how genius these archetypal tales really are. Ancient storytellers owned memespace.
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German Word of the Day: Dummkopf
Hard to translate directly into English, but it captures the essence of "blockhead," "dimwit," "doofus," "dummy," "moron," or just plain "stupid." A versatile classic!
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„Nur die dümmsten Kälber wählen ihre Schlächter selber“ (Only the dumbest calves choose their own butchers) - Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956)
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Abdul Alhazred was on to something when he said: "That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die."
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Ipsissimus is hard to translate directly from Latin to English, but it is essentially the superlative of "self,” translating rather approximately to "His most Selfness," or "self-est." The Ipsissimus Knows Nothing.
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro" - Hunter S. Thompson
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William.S.Burroughs on Secret Science
"Civilian researchers publish their findings. Top secret projects can then develop these findings in negative directions designated under 'military use' but they do not publish their findings. They are withholding valuable knowledge not only from the public but from other workers in specialized fields. If we lived in the Middle Ages, the fact that the world is round would be a top secret, enabling us to attack the enemy from the rear."
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"Nothing destroys illusions like excessive words." - Yukio Mishima, 'The Goddess'
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The Wikipedia page on 'Three-valued logic' is a typical neo-colonial narrative, claiming it as a 20th-century invention of Western Europeans while completely omitting its long pre-history in India & China.
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Tech product presentations from the usual corporate suspects all follow the same boring formula: indoors, screens, sales pitch. It's enough. I’m planning a series of events / presentations set in the Swiss Alps. High on authentic nature, low on corporate bullshit.
