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3 Life-Changing Truths from 3 Years of Minimalism | Becoming Minimalist
My journey into minimalism was not entered into as a fad, experiment, or temporary life adjustment. Nor was it just for the purpose of moving, getting out of debt, traveling the world, quitting my job, or starting a blog. My decision to intentionally live with less was born out of my desire to line up my life’s energy with my heart’s deepest desires.
One of the 19th-century’s most notorious socioarchitectural phenomena were the “insane asylums” that housed the era’s mentally ill — enormous and stunning buildings whose architecture stood in stark contrast with the ominous athmosphere of their inner workings. Fascinated by this phenomenon and its ghosts, photographer Christopher Payne set out to document the afterlife of those baleful buildings in Asylum: Inside The Closed World Of State Mental Hospitals — a compendium of images that peel away at a lost world and, in the process, offer a provocative portrait of the history of our (mis)treatment of the mentally ill.
Asylum: Inside the Haunting World of 19th-Century Mental Hospitals | Brain Pickings
Prepare to have your dreams haunted for some time with these busts, which portray how MTV's recently-rebooted iconic head-banging twosome would look if they actually existed in this world.
Beavis & Butthead In Real Life - G4tv.com
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Wendell Berry: Consciousness And The Creaturely Life | Earth Eats - Indiana Public Media
My purpose here is double. I want, first to attempt a Biblical argument for ecological and agricultural responsibility. Second, I want to examine some of the practical implications of such an argument.
The Gift of Good Land « Practicing Resurrection
The Idea of a Local Economy | Wendell Berry | Orion Magazine
A TOTAL ECONOMY is one in which everything—“life forms,” for instance,—or the “right to pollute” is “private property” and has a price and is for sale. In a total economy significant and sometimes critical choices that once belonged to individuals or communities become the property of corporations. A total economy, operating internationally, necessarily shrinks the powers of state and national governments, not only because those governments have signed over significant powers to an international bureaucracy or because political leaders become the paid hacks of the corporations but also because political processes—and especially democratic processes—are too slow to react to unrestrained economic and technological development on a global scale.
Animated Soviet Propaganda | Brain Pickings
There hardly is a time in world history more politically polarized than the 20th century, which divided the globe in two camps — capitalism and communism — divided at the height of the divergence by the infamous Iron Curtain.
The Key To Creativity, According To Steve Jobs | Edudemic
I’ve been viewing the Steve Jobs narration of the ‘Think Different’ ad as well as his 2005 Stanford Commencement address over the past few days. It’s served to inspire me, take on new tasks, and generally try things a bit differently.
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia.
To Live at All Is Miracle Enough - Richard Dawkins - RichardDawkins.net
Education’s Dilemma is Form | TeachThought
Education is in a state of flux right now.Salman Rushdie and Facebook’s pseudonym policy. - Slate Magazine
As the age-old battle between citizens and consumers moves online, it becomes possible to make out the contours of an Internet optimized for consumption. This Internet is fully transparent (e.g., all of our activities are observed, recorded, and analyzed with a view of predicting our future behavior), highly efficient (e.g., everything is organized and stored for us; all of it is findable within seconds), and extremely reliable (everything is interconnected but backed-up; cybercrime disappears along with pseudonyms).Patrician McCarthy: What's Your Innate Gift? :: Videos :: The 99 Percent
"We make things happen by knowing who we are," says Mien Shiang Institute founder Patrician McCarthy. Drawing on the Taoist technique of medical facial diagnosis, McCarthy illustrates how the ancient art of "face reading" can shed new light on our own strengths and weaknesses, and help us work with others more effectively.Theories & Philosophies