Posts tagged society

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 Anatomy of Deception and Self-Delusion

Walter Lippmann on Public Opinion, Our Slippery Grasp of Truth, and the Discipline of Apprehending Reality Clearly. “If the connection between reality and human response were direct and immediate, rather than indirect and inferred, indecision and failure would be unknown.”

philosophy, Books, QuotesMatthew AlbertellSeptember 8, 2022society, history of ideas, philosophy, self mastery, display

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

Twenty Years Later, Everything Is The Truman Show

“When I sit in a car or in a van or a room, and I see 90 percent of the people with their faces glowing and their eyes in the palm of their hand, I go, ‘This is Orwellian.’ Their consciousness has been reduced to what other people think, period,” the actor said. “I do enough of it myself. I’m not innocent of it, but I’m cognizant . . . I see what’s happened to the world because of this easy access, social media, and the contraptions we drag along with us like a ball and chain, this new appendage we’ve been saddled with. And I think of Steve Jobs in hell being pursued relentlessly, for eternity, by demons who want a selfie.”

philosophy, QuotesMatthew AlbertellJuly 26, 2021philosophy, society, solitude

“On Living in an Atomic Age” 1948.

“This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."

philosophyMatthew AlbertellMarch 23, 2021cs lewis, society

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