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Monthly Archives: February, 2007

Energy Addiction

Among his typically excellent essays, Curtis over at CSTF has recently posted another gem that I meant to link to earlier. Drawing upon Ivan Illich’s writing on energy and equity, … Continue reading

18 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Faces of Iran

A narrated photo essay hosted at Time Magazine

18 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

The Mass Psychology of America

Two interesting and thought-provoking pieces. They both relate to the general mass psychology in the US (applicable perhaps also to the other Anglophone countries, to lesser degrees), the irrationality of … Continue reading

17 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Arabic words in English

From Arabic words in English here, I found a few surprises and some I already knew. I wonder if the origins of a few of the words below are contested … Continue reading

16 February, 2007 · 15 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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