Technology traps us just as much as it protects us. To the extent that it makes our lives more comfortable, it makes them more dangerous.
Cars = car crashes
Credit cards = identity theft
Cyberspace = cyber bullying
And so on.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Monday, January 11, 2010
Random thoughts & quotes
Thoughts on poetry
"A poem always runs the risk of being meaningless, and would be nothing without this." -Jacques Derrida
"Poetry, unlike lawyers, guns, and money doesn't make anything (or supply its own interpretation" -Auden, paraphrased
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Other random thoughts:
Pop music, one essayist writes, always tells us that our emotions are real. Perhaps this is why we identify with it so much.
T.S. Eliot's fear of a state-run church: that "a national church might become a nationalistic church." Robert Nisbet argues that in this country "Christ the redeemer and America the Redeemer Nation have existed side by side."
"A poem always runs the risk of being meaningless, and would be nothing without this." -Jacques Derrida
"Poetry, unlike lawyers, guns, and money doesn't make anything (or supply its own interpretation" -Auden, paraphrased
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Other random thoughts:
Pop music, one essayist writes, always tells us that our emotions are real. Perhaps this is why we identify with it so much.
T.S. Eliot's fear of a state-run church: that "a national church might become a nationalistic church." Robert Nisbet argues that in this country "Christ the redeemer and America the Redeemer Nation have existed side by side."
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