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Starting to read 'The Silent Language' by Edward T Hall. Early on, he talks about how people don't realize just how enmeshed in their culture they are, considering many things to be universal, or idiosyncratic. The study of culture is not something obscure having to do with just anthropologists and far away peoples. His main purpose in the book ( Read more... ) -
Happy New Year, Nonexistent Readers!
As I've tried to explain a few times to a few people, I've lost my words. I used to write quite a bit, read quite a lot, be at least able to try to express myself. I've barely written over the past few years. My reading level has dropped (of sustained threads and complex concepts), and I cringe inwardly almost any time I open my mouth beyond a ( Read more... ) -
Dream diary
Yes, I mega-failed on that blogging goal. Moving on ( Read more... ) -
Hipster intro
I've definitely got a strong hipster streak. I've actually heard the term 'hipster' thrown around for ages before it started to sink in what most of its connotations were. I associated it mainly with a clothing style (which frankly, I find aesthetically appealing) and of course with a preference for non-mainstream music. Existing purely on their ( Read more... ) -
Sneak preview
As a preview of the stuff I've been thinking about and will probably write tons about (although really maybe it's all unnecessary, maybe there's nothing more for me to say),
is this paragraph from SlateStarCodexInteresting thing I came across in research for Untitled post but didn’t get a chance to explore: female journalist Norah Vincent decided ( Read more... ) -
next post will maybe possibly be organized or proofread
I don't actually of course believe in a thing like constancy of arrival time, but I can jokingly apply it to my life. Sometimes I think I have got some things figured out, and wonder what is up with everyone else and why are they all still children, and feel good and proud of my maturity or precocity. But then to make up for it there are all ( Read more... ) -
This kind of personal insight shit can be applied in all kinds of areas, yo.
I wasn't going to do a new year's resolution because I am way too cool to participate in lame conformist stuff like that, or I am always resolving to improve myself, or some such bullshit like that. But then I remembered that I had obsessively figured out which days of the year I have never posted a livejournal post in the shamefully long history ( Read more... ) -
In defense of drugs, apparently
I had two conversations two days in a row that in some ways overlapped and in some ways were different but still felt the same, and now, coming here, I see that the main idea that I find tying the two together was almost the last thing I wrote about here ( Read more... ) -
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I'm pretty sure I've talked about the whole 'keep your identity small' thing before. Now this. I have an identity I'd like to get rid of, but the proposed method of replacing it with an incompatible identity seems unlikely to work, or, in order to work, I need to first get rid of the identity. Which is that of someone with depression. I fought ( Read more... ) -
ALGORITHMS: ALLY OR MENACE?
http://youtu.be/TDaFwnOiKVERead more... )