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bargains

January 12, 2017

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We are beset on all sides by well funded well researched psychological campaigns to secure our money, our time, our attention, our participation, and our loyalty. We are virtually helpless in the face of these cleverly designed and implemented schemes. it takes superhuman strength of will and discipline to navigate this world following our own […]

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The Problem with Big Art

April 28, 2014

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the art itself doesn’t encourage thinking. Rather, it privileges emotional response — particularly the feeling of being impressed and awed — over understanding; in other words, passive consumption versus active. via The Problem with Big Art.

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Introduction to Poetry

April 3, 2014

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Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls […]

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