January 2012
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Love Isn't Enough
whywebrokeupproject:
Sure, we loved each other. But trying to build a life together based on nothing but love is like trying to build a beach house on a foundation of jello. It sounds romantic but is really just a big mess. I love you, I love you, I love you. And that is why we broke up.
How to break a dialectic. Option #1
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March 2011
1 post
“We are used to descriptions of our whole common life in political and economic...”
– Raymond Williams, Communications, 1966
February 2011
6 posts
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon (via a-ladys-findings, gwenmccartney) (via speaklisten) (via veganfeast)
“This is crucial. This is what mammals are about. They are concerned with...”
– Gregory Bateson, “From Versailles to Cybernetics,” in Steps to an Ecology of Mind, p. 478
January 2011
6 posts
“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a “meaning”...”
– David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries, p. 74
December 2010
3 posts
“The reality is in this head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium,...”
– Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, 1966
“An artist is identical with an anarchist,” he cried. “You might...”
– The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, Gilbert Keith Chesterton
November 2010
4 posts
“This is also the basic paradox of love, not only of one’s country, but also of a...”
– The Lacanian Real: Television, Slavoj Zizek
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“The critic is one who glimpses destiny in forms: whose most profound experience...”
– György Lukács, “On the Nature and Form of the Essay,” 1910
August 2010
1 post
The Charming Attitude of Slavoj Žižek
Greenstreet: What makes you depressed?
Žižek: Seeing stupid people happy.
Greenstreet: What do you owe your parents?
Žižek: Nothing, I hope. I didn't spend a minute bemoaning their death.
Greenstreet: What does love feel like?
Žižek: Like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.
Greenstreet: What is your favourite smell?
Žižek: Nature in decay, like rotten trees.
Greenstreet: Have you ever said 'I love you' and not meant it?
Žižek: All the time. When I really love someone, I can only show it by making aggressive and bad-taste remarks.
Greenstreet: What is the worst job you've done?
Žižek: Teaching. I hate students, they are (as all people) mostly stupid and boring.
Greenstreet: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Žižek: That life is a stupid, meaningless thing that has nothing to teach you.
Greenstreet: Tell us a secret.
Žižek: Communism will win.
July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
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May 2010
3 posts
is it raining? this is a good song for that.