Ein Artikel über Cornel West und seine Rolle im letzten US-Wahlkampf.
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Vergoldung
Wende ich den Blick rückwärts, so sehe ich nur eine Folge armseliger Taten. Meine Bücher erzählen sie. Sie haben sie ausgeschmückt mit Eigenschaftsworten, dank derer ich mich jetzt mit Wohlbehagen ihrer erinnere.
Jean Genet, Tagebuch eines Diebes
Simple
The sage sat down with his pupil.
“The self is like the eye”, he said.
“In the middle is a hole.”
The pupil thought about that for the rest of his life.
He became a sage, too.
Escape
As a boy, he learned to detect trouble very early.
He became a large and angry man.
After the war, he was with the foreign legion on Corsica.
He went into the sea. They pulled him out just in time.
Said he tried to swim home.
Fight
They asked the martial arts master which fighting style is best.
“Oh, that is an easy question”, he said.
“It is the exact opposite of self defense.”
They looked puzzled.
He beat them up.
Bureaucracy
An office mate sent him an invitation to a fantasy computer game.
They went for a smoke the next day and talked about it.
“It’s nothing but a big fucking excel sheet.”
He spent the next years playing it.
3 Tipps
How to be a good philosopher:
1. Read widely
2. Question everything
3. stfu about quantum mechanics, you are embarrassing yourself.— Existential Comics (@existentialcoms) September 27, 2016
Art
He wrote a long story about the misery of the world and had the best time of his life doing it.
Click
He came back to the office after a month of vacation.
There was a business meeting with more than ten people.
It was about plastic bottles for shower cream. They didn’t make the right sound when they got closed.
Someone from the marketing department held up a bottle.
“Do you hear it?”
Click.
Poly
She had six lovers but felt lonely most of the time.