classical Greek red figure vase vs. Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1531 Isn’t the mythic healthcare debate just painful? Can it please be the last straw? Our civilization has ground to a halt. Why? Because we argue issues, or worse, facts, when those are not what divide us. What divides us is [...]
Archive for February, 2010
February 27, 2010
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We’re wasting time debating issues while our stories are at war.
By Lee in Archives
February 9, 2010
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Can ideas be too big to fail?
By Lee in ArchivesYou can tell a lot about a civilization by the imagery it puts the most money behind. Most we’ve admired spent big on making their favorite philosophy visible everywhere and beautiful to everyone. They wanted to weave their wisdom into the fabric of their cultures. For better or worse, those cultures became the ideas they [...]
Tags: art, culture, philosophy, values, wisdom
February 4, 2010
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I don’t know—I just know
By Lee in ArchivesWe need to stop being weird about intuition. We’re going to need it to solve our problems and to do great stuff that makes life exciting and fun. There are some ideas, embedded in our culture that screw up our understanding of intuition. I’m sure I’m going to bring the subject up more than just [...]
February 1, 2010
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poll: which would be worse
By Lee in ArchivesSo we were sitting around Sunday morning and got to thinking (not always a good thing) about the way Americans can seem fairly righteous on the one hand, but on the other, admire a skilled criminal. I have no idea how we got onto that subject, but the result is this poll: [polldaddy poll=2628993]