“Social media has excited our political metabolisms and we burn through a new cause like a bag of chips. Most French cheeses last longer than modern political movements.”
-From Love What Lasts (Winter, 2020)
Teach me to care and not to care.
“Social media has excited our political metabolisms and we burn through a new cause like a bag of chips. Most French cheeses last longer than modern political movements.”
-From Love What Lasts (Winter, 2020)
Students: Mr. Gibbs, do you think the Church should have temporal power?
Gibbs: Look, if you just want to hear me say something controversial, I am happy to do that.
Student: Okay!
Gibbs: Then I’ll do you one better. I think the Church should have spiritual power.
“The 20th century witnessed a bifurcation in art, where “high art” became increasingly esoteric and “low art” became increasingly sensual. Over the course of the 20th century, high art and low art engaged in a game of chicken, wherein each side dared the other to greater extreme. The weirder high art became, the more sensual low art became. Jackson Pollock and Hugh Hefner both rose to prominence in the 1950s, though Pollock’s appeal was that no one understood him and Hefner’s appeal was that no one misunderstood him. When modern men think of art, they tend to think of such highs and lows. In the midst of this daring game of extremes, art lost the common touch.”
-From Love What Lasts (Winter, 2020)
I simply could not find one of the echo chambers which I had heard so much about.
“A man does not mind being blamed for his faults and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers for them, but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
-Goethe
What does it mean for our faults to be “worth it”? How do faults slowly become our private lives? How do our private lives ultimately overtake our public lives? This week’s episode of Proverbial addresses these questions. Download the latest episode here.
If health insurance companies charge higher premiums for smokers, does it make sense to charge higher tuition for students with smart phones? I explore this question in a dialog for CiRCE.