Posts tagged alone

Before you can be with others, first learn to be alone.

It was ‘such a great misfortune’, he thought, to lose the capacity to be alone with oneself, to get caught up in the crowd, to surrender one’s singularity to mind-numbing conformity.

philosophy, history of ideasMatthew AlbertellSeptember 11, 2023society, alone, solitude, philosophy, history of ideas, values of belief, values and beliefs

To suffer binds you to something higher than yourself, higher than your own will. Takes you from the world to find what lies beyond it.

He shows His love not by helping avoid suffering, but by sending you suffering, by keeping you there.

philosophy, Quotes, history of ideasMatthew AlbertellSeptember 6, 2023society, solitude, meaning of life, Man's search for meaning, existentialism, alone, awareness, values of belief, di

The Diner

Edward Hopper: Nighthawks (1942)

The diner was a place of refuge, absolutely, but there was no visible entrance, no way to get in or out. There was a cartoonish, ochre-coloured door at the back of the painting, leading perhaps into a grimy kitchen. But from the street, the room was sealed: an urban aquarium, a glass cell.

Matthew AlbertellDecember 3, 2021alone, society, solitude, philosophy, art, display

Consequences Matter

“Social Justice Fallacies”

In this wide-ranging interview, Dr. Sowell discusses the consequences of our society’s embarking on a quest for equality at the expense of merit. Even if every group in society is given an equal chance, he explains, these groups will end up with disparate levels of income or education. Dr. Sowell also criticizes the concept of systemic racism; his research reveals it doesn’t appear to apply to blacks (watch the interview to see why that word isn’t capitalized here) who are married. The interview concludes with Dr. Sowell reading a moving passage from his book.

Poverty Is Engineered

Thomas Sowell

In 1995, Thomas Sowell sat down with Ben Wattenberg to discuss his new book, “The Vision of the Anointed.” Today, we see the notions discussed surface as the vision of the woke.

Stage 1 - Stage A Crisis

Stage 2 - The Solution For The Crisis

Stage 3 - Put In Results

Stage 4 - Blame