Pre-high tech, objects thunked and crashed and clopped, amid a thunder of drums, a tumult of trumpets. Today things beep and cheep and whistle. We have come from the roar of the lion to the chirp of t...
I remember reading once how some Stone Age Indians from the Brazilian rain forest with no knowledge or expectation of a world beyond the jungle were taken to Sao Paulo or Rio, and when they saw what i...
(n.) Modernness; something modern.
When nations grow old the Arts grow coldAnd commerce settles on every tree
A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.
The opposite of manliness isn’t cowardice; it’s technology.
All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a lar...
Solitary though we may have become, we haven't of course given up all hope of forming relationships. In the lonely canyons of the modern city, there is no more honoured emotion than love. However, thi...
The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.
And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes...
Anymore, no one's mind is their own.
Something changed in the world. Not too long ago, it changed, and we know it. We don't know how to explain it yet, but I think we all can feel it, somewhere deep in our gut or in our brain circuits. W...
Yes, being black is a full-time job: sometimes you are invisible, other times you are hyper-visible, he says. Sometimes you are welcome, other times you are not. The thermostat is always moving and yo...
آن چه که ما خودآگاهی ناشی از تمدن می نامیم، به طور جدی از غرایز اصلیمان فاصله گرفته است. انسان عصر حاضر به علت شهر نشینی تا حدی به قدرت اراده و اختیار دست یافته و بدون توسل به دعا و سرود و دهل [در رقص...
If one is to deal with people on a large scale and say what one thinks, how can one avoid melancholy? I don’t admit to being hopeless, though: only the spectacle is a profoundly strange one; and as th...
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