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The Wider, More Ignorant World
Your words can live forever cast out in the virtual plane. They truly are immortal now, and the internet’s to blame. No matter your intentions or the crowd you thought to reach, your thoughts will be interpreted and stretched until … Continue reading
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Tagged ignorance, intentions, Internet, opinion, public opinion, social media
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The Same Street: rispetto
The difference is, he starts to say, between our diametric views, is in defining work and play: that one is waste, and one is use. That sets the tone for what must be, more than different reality, two separate worlds … Continue reading
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Tagged #BookofForms, disagreement, Italian verse forms, opinion, opposition, poetic forms, rispetto, worldview
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The Heart of Beauty
When Beauty stands alone at last upon the wretched reefs of time and watches as her suitors sink beyond the pale horizon line where tied to masts of providence they’ve closed their senses to her charms and set their sextants … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged aging, beauty, coersion, illusions, loss, opinion, Persephone, regrets, relativity, slavery, time
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De Toqueville Rides Again
In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions themselves. Everybody there adopts great numbers of theories, on philosophy, morals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy in America, equality, liberty, opinion
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