In Episode Three, entitled “Karl Marx, Prophet of Discontent,” things get even more complicated. Marx contended that “God” is simply people projecting onto a deity their ideal human being. Religion, he said, “distanced individuals from their genuine selves.” Marx lived during the Industrial...
Back then, I had a clash with one of the two girls I lived with in Jerusalem. She locked me out. So when I made plans for somewhere else to live, they found they had a problem. Both of them were quite restricted financially. So me leaving meant they’d have a few weeks when ...
Jonas, I’d like you to meet a friend of mine, “Johanne,” a dedicated nurse, and mother of two living in Oslo. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, however, she lived in a home marred by addiction and crime. She has been fined, imprisoned, and was generally viewed as an i...
So the Machiguenga traditionally used ayahuasca, the communities I lived in didn’t but there’s another anthropologist who lived for years with the Machiguenga. In the remote communities of Manu which is a national park in Peru, and there they were using ayahuasca. And it was a common ...
Plus, “If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut,” says Stephen King in On Writing. A Memoir of the Craft. Mark Pollard says “Strategy Is Your ...
CHAPTER 1 Introduction Duygu Erbil , Ann Rigney , and Clara Vlessing In the preface to the third edition of her autobiography, originally pub- lished in 1974, Angela Davis (2022) reflected on what it meant for her to write about her own life: At the time I wrote this book, ...
In this mix of strange stories, Malcolm Gladwell, a famous writer, handles misunderstood events and rarely discussed ideas, covering subjects like Toyota’s car recall and even the firebombing of Tokyo at the end of World ...
The situation is almost Freudian in its logic: unable to adequately confront lived trauma through music, our emotionality has regressed, seriously, to the level of very small children. Check, Animal Collective connects on the basis that their songs are the audio equivalent of finger paintings; ...
in the books compared to the show. Thanks to aYouTubevideo from AI enthusiast How Not to AI Art, we now have a look at what some of the key characters who played a part in sending the Seven Kingdoms into a new age actually looked like. Incredibly, in the case of most ofthe Stark...
“fleeting and fatalistic moment in time - one that was both sensational and sorrowful in equal measure.” The record appears to be inspired by the aftermath of Swift’s break-up with her long term partner, British actor Joe Alwyn, which saw her dive into a short lived but intense ...