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Category: assumptions

Ardano on aesthetics & natural beauty

Just how bound up nat­ural beauty is with art beauty is con­firmed by the expe­ri­ence of the for­mer. For it, nature is exclu­sively appear­ance, never the stuff of labor and the repro­duc­tion of life, let alone the sub-stratum of sci­ence. Like the expe­ri­ence of art, the aes­thetic expe­ri­ence is that of images. Nature, as appearing […]

I remember my dad telling me…

When Preacher stepped out of the ele­va­tor, he saw a man in a beige suit and pink west­ern shirt sit­ting in a swivel chair behind a huge desk, framed against a glass wall that looked out onto the bay. On the desk was a big clear plas­tic jar of green-and-blue candy sticks, each striped stick […]

Culture, not History

An dis­cus­sion about the rela­tion­ship between anthro­pol­ogy and enthnog­ra­phy raises the ques­tion of how to clearly define the dis­cus­sion and knowl­edge of people’s.His­tory is a sequenc­ing of events, a kind of cause and effect, that is the inevitable out­come of try­ing to under­stand the pat­tern of events that is defined by a period. Yet history […]

I thought it would be higher

Text while dri­ving? Thought every­one did. That’s cause I’ve got my head down texting.…uh-huh. clipped from www.marketingcharts.com 26% of Mobile Users Text While Dri­ving Despite an increas­ing num­ber of state bans on dri­ving while tex­ting (DWT) and numer­ous reports of texting-related acci­dents, more than one-fourth (26%) of US mobile-phone users send and/or receive text mes­sages while […]

Running on the debit system: personal

The basic chal­lenge in life is cre­at­ing an emo­tional frame­work, in those deal­ings that you have with peo­ple every day, and from time to time, that con­sis­tently pays inter­est. A frame­work where a sim­ple smile, a thank you, a glance…delivered with a moment of con­nec­tion and sincerity…becomes a deposit that pays back. How that pay­ment comes […]