“Fictions become one importance source, and mass culture, as the dominant purveyor of fictions, has become a locus of enchantment equal to that of modern science. (The emergence of “science fiction” as a distinct genre in the twentieth century is emble…
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Modern Enchantments
August 19th, 2008 — , Commentary, Dreamscape, Philosophy, science from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Googlifying Our Minds
July 5th, 2008 — , Commentary, Dreamscape, Philosophy, Psychology from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory. My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing. I’m…
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Humor, Laughter & Jokes
June 30th, 2008 — , Books, Laughs, Philosophy, Psychology from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“[P]opular among modern theorists is the “incongruity theory” of joking, which sees humor and laughter stemming from the inappropriate mixing of categories or registers of meaning (”Work is the curse of the drinking classes,” as Oscar Wilde quipped). O…
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June 29th, 2008 — , Commentary, Life, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people’s minds, imagine themselves into other people’s places. Of course, this is a power, like my brand of…
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June 9th, 2008 — , Commentary, Health, Philosophy, science from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Other issues surround any type of drug-taking, such as the possible long-term effects. The human brain is gloriously adaptable, which is why we occupy more ecological niches than most other species. But this also means that any influence, especially d…
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June 9th, 2008 — , Literature, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Optional”Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. I couldn’t agree more. No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative ac…
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June 8th, 2008 — , Commentary, Literature, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Our homes do not have to offer us permanent occupancy or store our clothes to merit the name. Home can be an airport or a library, a garden or a hotel. Our love of home is in turn an acknowledgement of the degree to which our identity is not …
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June 5th, 2008 — , Art, Dreamscape, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Even those who are not physically blessed may appear beautiful in a portrait. A good portrait painter will find beauty in any subject, because there is a sense, surely, in which the human face will always appear beautiful, caught in the right pose, se…
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May 31st, 2008 — , Commentary, Dreamscape, Philosophy, Society from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“The most boring question to ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is “true”. It’s a measure of the banality of recent discussions on theological matters that it is precisely this matter which has hogged the limelight, pitting a ha…
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May 31st, 2008 — , Commentary, Dreamscape, Philosophy, Society from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“The most boring question to ask about religion is whether or not the whole thing is “true”. It’s a measure of the banality of recent discussions on theological matters that it is precisely this matter which has hogged the limelight, pitting a ha…
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May 11th, 2008 — , Alternative, Commentary, Isms, Philosophy, Society from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Happiness in a Society of Individuals”The predictions of the ‘end of ideology’ that were rife and widely accepted twenty to thirty years ago do not seem to have come true. What we are witnessing, rather, is a curious twist in the idea of ‘ideology’: in…
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May 8th, 2008 — , Commentary, Philosophy, Urbanities from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Last year, one of my friends asked pairs of strangers in a bookstore to pick out their favorite books, which he then purchased so they could exchange them. My brother gave his hundred to a friend so he could make the most “tricked out guitar pedal in …
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April 27th, 2008 — , Alternative, Philosophy, Psychology, science from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Multiple intelligences is an educational theory, first developed by Howard Gardner, that describes an array of different kinds of “intelligences” exhibited by human beings. Gardner suggests that each individual manifests varying levels of these differe…
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April 22nd, 2008 — , Commentary, Life, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“It’s a dilemma many parent bloggers have begun to confront: Is it ethical to blog about my children? The attendant questions range from issues of safety - whether to use a child’s real name or post photos - to more abstract quandaries: At what point d…
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April 6th, 2008 — , Alternative, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
The Revival of Philosophy”Once scoffed at as a luxury major, philosophy is being embraced at Rutgers and other universities by a new generation of college students who are drawing modern-day lessons from the age-old discipline as they try to make sense…
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March 31st, 2008 — , Alternative, Language, Life, Philosophy, Urbanities from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Whose was this extraordinary idea? Tony Wright’s–the 47-year-old manager of Ron Eager House. “If,” he said, “you’re a rough sleeper, to get benefit they make you go through hoops because you have no address. You’re ten minutes late, you don’t get it….
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March 31st, 2008 — , Commentary, Philosophy, Society from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“That picture of a vengeful God excoriating humanity for the tiniest transgressions has largely disappeared; love is once again seen as a more powerful persuader than fear. But something curious has happened to sin: in a matter of decades it has droppe…
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March 2nd, 2008 — , Commentary, Dreamscape, Philosophy, Society, Urbanities from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“I see this tendency to ignore the social and political struggle in the works of wildly popular writers such as Eckhart Tolle, who has repackaged Vedanta for the masses. In Tolle’s recent book, A New Earth, he writes: “We are coming to the end not …
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February 12th, 2008 — Health, Philosophy, Psychology, science from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“Komisaruk’s lab has also studied the brains of women who say they can bring themselves to orgasm with thought alone. For some it’s a sexual thought that does the trick, he says, but for others it’s more abstract - something that has to do with focusin…
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February 11th, 2008 — Alternative, Art, Philosophy, Style from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Wabi-sabi: Nothing Is Perfect”Wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The phrase comes from the two words wabi and sabi. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that …
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February 4th, 2008 — Alternative, Life, Philosophy, Style from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
A clock drops beads to measure time in five-minute increments.”Slow is also an idea, it seems, whose time has come. “When I was researching the book,” he continued, “if you Googled slow movement, there wasn’t anything. As a growing cultural qua…
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January 23rd, 2008 — Alternative, Isms, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Why is there so much resistance to using feminine images of God? I think the rejection of the inclusive language lectionary, which the U.S. bishops applied for in 1992 and which was rejected by the Vatican, was a clear recognition that once you start …
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January 17th, 2008 — Alternative, Life, Philosophy, Poetry from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“[The] innate impulse toward helpfulness offers one alternative to the order of punishment and force. Altruism, empathy, and mutual nurturance—the evidence of a basic tenderness between fellow creatures—carry the survival strategies of symbiosis in…
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December 16th, 2007 — Art, Commentary, Philosophy from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“The gift of art—like the experience of meditation—is always an invitation for the mind to slow down and pay attention. Listening without the ego in the way is always an act of love. The novelist and critic Albert Murray says that fine art is disti…
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December 13th, 2007 — Books, Philosophy, Society from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesio…
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November 5th, 2007 — Commentary, Philosophy, Society from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
“In New York City, where the streetscape is being systematically remade by glassy towers like the W, which have been spreading like kudzu in the seven years since the first two terrarium-like Richard Meier buildings went up on the West Side Highway, th…
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September 13th, 2007 — Philosophy, science from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
What function does philosophy have now? Is it becoming superfluous – because of the behavioural sciences, brain research and evolutionary biology?I am very careful about that. As far as the behavioural sciences are concerned, I think that people are …
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August 31st, 2007 — Art, Isms, Philosophy, Society, Women from Lou @ Moving and Shaking
Stanford University Encyclopedia of Philosophy1. Art and Artists: Historical BackgroundThe concept of the artist has its own gender skew. For much of the modern period, the very best examples of fine art were understood to be the creative products of a…
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