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In his books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and especially Lila, Robert Pirsig mentions the use of an analytical razor. I am often reminded of his discussion in everyday life, and I feel that his conclusions are very significant, and very often overlooked or simply not even realized by most people. I will […]
A related concept to the previous post about analytical razors is that of mutually exclusive dichotomies. This is a special case of the slicing, where things are divided so that they fall into exactly one of two different categories. The above example was such a dichotomy (male or female). While they may be adequate for […]
A few days ago in my international affairs class, there was this girl in front whose shirt made me angry. It said “Let them hate us, as long as they fear us,” and it had a big picture of the US flag.
How can anyone be so naive, so ignorant, so myopic to have that view? […]
Haha since the United States has established itself as the master of consolidating power in the hands of the top people under the pretense of “security” and “war on terror”, it’s no surprise that other countries are now using the same tried-and-tested methods to do the same. Russia, for example, with its own “war on […]
I saw Donnie Darko (Director’s Cut) in theatres last night. Read more here.
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Title: Maria Full of Grace
Grade: B-
Times Viewed: 1
Date Reviewed: 09/06/04
After watching the trailer for this movie, I was very excited to go see it. And it was good. But it was nowhere near my expectations for it, even more so because I feel it easily could have been, except for one fundamental mistake made by […]
I’m reading this book on Glass’ works and life, and he mentions his first meeting with Copland (whose music btw I quite dislike):
I remember Copland came to one of our classes, and he was his [Milhaud’s] guest there. I had written a violin concerto that summer, and I was showing my piece and he said, […]