FACEBOOK DOESN'T MAKE US BETTER PEOPLE

 

"Facebook's biggest problem is us. It never turns its attention away from us, and it never lets our attention turn away from it. To borrow from Annie Dillard, Facebook is the constant verbalization of our awareness, it is the nagging need to experience every moment in anticipation of a moment yet to come: the mechanical drip of serotonin that comes with every 'like.' Self-consciousness is 'the one thing that divides us from all creatures,' Dillard wrote. 'It was a bitter birthday present from evolution, cutting us off at both ends.'

I killed Facebook before it had a chance to kill me. It destroys the present moment, leaving us only with the metadata of experience; ultimately meaningless traces of what we now think looks like real experience. It does this by locking us in a room with ourselves, our self-consciousness, and throwing away the key."

(Via.I killed Facebook and left its body in the woods | The Verge)

AB

Remembering New York

Beautiful

All Good Things

"If you are aware of a state which you call 'is,'

Or reality, or life, this implies another state called 'isn't.'

Or illusion, or unreality, or nothingness, or death

There it is, you can't know one without the other

And so, as to make life poignant

It's always got to come to an end"

-Alan Watts

Need a plan

Remembering Mandela

Losing at Chess ...

Our Attention

“We have these brief lives, and our only real choice is how we will fill them. Your attention is precious. Don’t squander it. Don’t throw it away. Don’t let companies and products steal it from you. Don’t let advertisers trick you into lusting after things you don’t need. Don’t let the media convince you to covet the lives of celebrities. Own your attention — it’s all you really have.”

- Jonathan Harris

what a Thursday

 

L.A.

Anaïs Nin on Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Credit: Wendy Macnaughton

Susan Sontag on Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Credit: Wendy Macnaughton

Camus on Happiness and Love

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If those whom we begin to love could know us as we were before meeting them … they could perceive what they have made of us.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world

Credit: Wendy Macnaughton

An illustrative guide to Music Festivals

Daily Routines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 Fascinating. Website

Academic Writing Workflow

Useful

Chinese Paintings at the UN in Vienna

2020

Comfort Foods of every State in America

Beauty

 

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have tow hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”

~ Sam Levenson

10 Steps

 

GRILL MASTER

A beautiful day

 

Alex & Tata’s Wedding at Rudolfhof, Baden