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on Sep 20 '12
Major gap in gender identity discussion: we do not greatly value people. so if men are not much more than nothing, (exceptions for family, friends), women are below that, children below them, then animals then the rest of the world.
We live in a materialist-nihilist conundrum. what is made (goods, electronics) has real value, so we strive for more and to live to see better material. but we are less than what we seek to acquire- we should then derive meaning and substance, ourselves from these goods and materials.
but this never works, because our works are hollow unless they acknowledge…
Major gap in gender identity discussion: we do not greatly value people. so if men are not much more than nothing, (exceptions for family, friends), women are below that, children below them, then animals then the rest of the world.
We live in a materialist-nihilist conundrum. what is made (goods, electronics) has real value, so we strive for more and to live to see better material. but we are less than what we seek to acquire- we should then derive meaning and substance, ourselves from these goods and materials.
but this never works, because our works are hollow unless they acknowledge the worth and richness of the world around us.
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on Sep 21 '12
oh man that last part was so painful. amazing
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on Sep 20 '12
WISH IT WAS W/O SOUNDTRACK, JUXTAPOSITIONAL POSSIBILITIES ARE RIFE
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on Sep 20 '12
Orwell on Romney: "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, … to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again — that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed."
…Orwell on Romney: "To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, … to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again — that was the ultimate subtlety; consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed."
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on Sep 19 '12
" The making of Singapore, Michigan (view the full project at Behance)
Jacob van Loon
Singapore, Michigan
Near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River in a densely forested area, Singapore was founded in 1836 with the intention of becoming a port city on par with Chicago. As a lumber industry was birthed and developed over the next four decades, the destruction along the shores of Lake Michigan in October of 1871 became a turning point in the fate of Singapore.
For three days in early October of 1871, fire eradicated over three square miles of Chicago; the predominantly wooden…
" The making of Singapore, Michigan (view the full project at Behance)
Jacob van Loon
Singapore, Michigan
Near the mouth of the Kalamazoo River in a densely forested area, Singapore was founded in 1836 with the intention of becoming a port city on par with Chicago. As a lumber industry was birthed and developed over the next four decades, the destruction along the shores of Lake Michigan in October of 1871 became a turning point in the fate of Singapore.
For three days in early October of 1871, fire eradicated over three square miles of Chicago; the predominantly wooden architecture lending itself to the widespread damage. Less commonly known are the three other major fires occurring on the same days which destroyed large portions of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and both Manistee and Holland, Michigan. In total, thousands were killed, miles of city and thousands of miles of forests were leveled by the same fire that took Chicago.
Singapore and the natural resources harbored by their lumber industry were quick to act, assisting several different communities with materials for rebuilding. As an oversight of limitation, Singapore’s supply was exhausted less than a few years later. With the key industry having run out of fuel, the town was almost completely abandoned. Because the forests around Singapore were cleared, winds from the lake began to push the sand dunes on the shores back into the town, covering it completely less than five years after the last person left. Nothing remains visible of the town today.
—JVL"
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