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Jun 9
He described the medium of interconnectedness as tzippiyah, which could be translated as “contemplative observation.” Tzippiyah is mystical awareness, what we experience when the sense of past and future dissolves and we are fully present, totally in the moment.
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Jun 5
But what attracts the crowds the most is without a doubt the social microcosm, the religious, miniaturized pleasure of real America, of its constraints and joys. One parks outside and stands in line inside, one is altogether abandoned at the exit.
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Jun 5
Or, rather: inside, a whole panoply of gadgets magnetizes the crowd in directed flows - outside, solitude is directed at a single gadget: the automobile. By an extraordinary coincidence...
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Jun 5
(but this derives without a doubt from the enchantment inherent to this universe) this frozen, childlike world is found to have been conceived realized by a man who is himself now cryogenized: Walt Disney, who awaits his resurrection through an increase of 180 degrees centigrade.
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Jun 5
Disneyland is a perfect model of all the entangled orders of simulacra. It is first of all a play of illusions and phantasms: the Pirates, the Frontier, the Future World, etc. This imaginary world is supposed to ensure the success of the operation.
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May 31
…and can commence filing, collecting the material for his files from every imaginable source in archeology, folk-lore, mystical religion, travellers’ tales, and the speculations of ancient and modern philosophy and ultramodern science.
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May 28
All of the fine arts are only differing phases of the word; they are only so many modes of expression, signals of the spirit across gulfs of silence.
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May 28
And our Titan of the century, mechanical invention, what is the end of all its labour but to bring men face to face more rapidly, that they may speak what they know, or to carry their thought abroad with the swiftness of light?
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May 23
All original ideas, e.g., absolute harmony, order, periodicity, etc., are reflected in the absolute legality of the universal laws.
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May 16
The single arch in the desert of Ctesiphon, lutescent and venerable, the largest single span of brick ever made by man, is all that remains of the ancient kingdom of Parthia.
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May 11
Is the spirit who acts on solid bodies, when he moves them, inside or outside their substance?
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May 11
“He may be in or out of it; we have told you that matter is no obstacle to spirits; they penetrate everything; portion of their perispirit identifies itself; so to say, with the object it penetrates.”
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May 3
…the science of the letters, the science of the word and the language, not though, of the intellectual, but — mark you — the universal language.
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Apr 24
[a] Those who can sense the plan and are commissioned to work it out.
[b] Those who can be used but who are blind to the greater issues.
[c] Those who can sense nothing except those things which concern their own selfish interests.
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Apr 14
The soul is the center of both these envelopes, like the germ in the stone of the fruit … #AntiAnti
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Apr 4
All of the fine arts are only differing phases of the word; they are only so many modes of expression, signals of the spirit across gulfs of silence. And our Titan of the century, mechanical invention, what is the end of all its labor but to bring men face to face more rapidly...
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Apr 4
...that they may speak what they know, or to carry their thought abroad with the swiftness of light?
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