Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.
~ Franz Kafka
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Author Archives: Kristina Lutz-Jacobi
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Sexual desire encompasses desires for power, belonging, advantage and disruption that we would not typically think of as erotic.
~ Alexandra Kleeman via The New York Times
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If we exiled our sins, our virtues would get lonely without their old sparring partners.
~ Henry S. Haskins
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It was one of those nights when the sky came down and wrapped itself around the world. The rain clawed at the windows of the bar like an angry cat and tried to sneak in every time some drunk lurched in the door. The place reeked of stale beer and soggy men with enough cheap perfume thrown in to make you sick.
~ Mickey Spillane via The Big Kill (1951)
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Whenever men are not obliged to fight from necessity, they fight from ambition; which is so powerful in human breasts, that it never leaves them no matter to what rank they rise.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Every extreme attitude is a flight from the self.
~ Eric Hoffer
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Is there anything more satisfying than watching a debate in which the sophist gets defenestrated by someone smarter, better prepared, and obviously right?
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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A delay in a balancing feedback loop makes the system likely to oscillate.
~ Donella Meadows
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
~ John Ruskin
#ThisAmericanOpera – Tulsi Gabbard
What are the chances CNN or MSNBC would present this exchange in context?
Kristina Lutz-Jacobi here with a question. What are the chances that CNN or MSNBC or BBC World or PBS or CBS or ABC would have presented this exchange between Tulsi Gabbard and Senator Jerry Moran — Republican of Kansas — in its full context? What are the chances that any of the aforementioned legacy media platforms would have presented Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation in a manner that did not reinforce the existing stereotypes that solidified in the past two years?
Kudos to The Economic Times – a publication based in India – for offering a perspective on U.S. politics that runs counter to the operatic nature of the American media culture.
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