Author: be_DESIGN
“People use thought only to justify their injustices.”
Thought as theory of legitimation: Sadly, this applies to a large part of what is discussed or published in other forms. Often, the necessary self-criticism, which is a precondition for theory and intelligent thought, is lacking.
Conversation = Voices rant on
“There is no document of culture that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”
This is the manifest tragedy of culture because (almost?) everything which is admired for valid reasons, was or is also used by various authoritarian, or even fascist, regimes: as legitimation, as alleged proof of cultural permanence, as pomp or as … Weiterlesen
debit card = bad credit
“The ability to find emergency exits.”
The straight, predefined and normed ways do not offer any hope; they only convey a false sense of security. In fact, emergency exits always exist in societal dynamics this side of one-dimensional worlds of ideas and orientation. These emergency exits, … Weiterlesen
Stressed = Desserts
“Those who do not lose their mind over certain things, have no mind to lose.”
All of us will certainly have experienced situations in which, for various reasons, we think we are going to lose our mind. Here, Lessing conveys in a very wise way that this is neither embarrassing nor pathological because sometimes there … Weiterlesen
Save = Vase
I think in slow flashes.
A physical impossibility, a literarily apt wonderful formulation. And that’s exactly how Friederike Mayröcker though and wrote, one of the best poets of the 20th and 21st centuries.