But with art comes empathy. It allows us to look through someone else’s eyes and know their strivings and struggles. It expands the moral imagination and makes it impossible to accept the dehumanization of others. When we are without art, we are a diminished people — myopic, unlearned and cruel. | | | | Africa, AIDS, The Berlin Wall, 9/11, Human Rights. U2 always looking after us. Live in Belfast. 11/18/15.
(Carrie Davenport/Redferns/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “But with art comes empathy. It allows us to look through someone else’s eyes and know their strivings and struggles. It expands the moral imagination and makes it impossible to accept the dehumanization of others. When we are without art, we are a diminished people — myopic, unlearned and cruel.”
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| | rantnrave:// It's summertime and it makes me think of camp. Lots of friends' kids are going. My parents sent me to sleep away camp for 8 weeks when I was 6 years old. CAMP WINAUKEE on LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE in NEW HAMPSHIRE. Mom was ok with it because my friends JARRETT and GREG were going too. I loved it. A little homesick at first but it faded. In prison, cigarettes are often currency. At camp, it was candy. I remember when I was 8 years old, my father slipped me some extra cash and said: "tip the counselor and he'll bring you stuff from town." In my case, the currency was the original JOLLY RANCHERS. The long stix. Certain flavors were more valuable than the others. WATERMELON probably the most valuable. I had a pretty good underground economy going at 8. And the counselors got a taste. Maybe they bought beer or pizza. Who knows? If you wanted candy the "legal" way, that came from the canteen. But at our camp, in order to get that candy (CHARLESTON CHEW for me), you had to write a letter to your parents. I was a momma's boy. I wrote long letters about how I was, my friends, what I was doing and what I needed to get sent via packages (RICHIE RICH comics, gummy bears, and MAD LIBS). I loved packages. My love for AMAZON PRIME is directly related to my mother sending me packages at camp. My sister, who went to the girls camp down the road, was lazier and smarter. She would just send an empty envelope home and sure enough, she got her candy. If she did send a letter home it was one of those checklist type stationary which requires that you only signed your name. Nowadays, there is email. I like to keep in touch with my niece or my godchildren at camp. But there's a new development that totally pisses me off. Many of these camps require that you use their proprietary or licensed email system and you need to buy credits for sending and replying. I literally need to pay to be in touch with them. So you pay for your kid to go to camp and they charge you to talk to your kid. Some of those smarter than everyone techies don't like the phrase "you are the product." I can usually take them on in a debate. They have blind spots. Here? Well, I'm sure I have some, but in this case, your kid is the product or bait. Something about this just rubs me the wrong way. It may be generational, but every parent I know that uses these things, it drives them a little nutty. #modernproblemsepisode37... Being stupid and uninformed is fine unless you ruin life for the rest of humanity... Probably #1 on my list of culinary trips... Food on INSTAGRAM is everything... U2 tonight in NYC. Am in need of a good revival... Define yourself by acceptance even if you want to live a life of exclusion. But make all of us exclude, and we'll exclude you... Happy Birthday to MIKE MACADAAN and BILLY CLARK. Belated to NANCY LUBLIN, BRIAN MEDAVOY, BILL ROBINSON, PETER MASTERSON, DANNY BIGEL, and JOANNA BOMBERG. | | | - Jason Hirschhorn, curator |
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 | Slate |
| And it fills me with grief. | | |
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 | TED Talks |
| It doesn't matter whether you love or hate guns; it's obvious that the US would be a safer place if there weren't thousands of them sold every day without background checks. Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, makes a passionate, personal appeal for something that more than 90 percent of Americans want: background checks for all gun sales. | | |
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 | Bloomberg.com |
| It’s like something out of a movie. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Roe v. Wade could soon be in serious jeopardy. One way to fight is to share our stories. | | |
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 | The Economist |
| IN THE heyday of the talkie, Louis B. Mayer, head of the biggest studio, was Hollywood's lion king. In the 1980s, with the studio system on the wane, "superagent" Michael Ovitz was often described as the most powerful man in town. Now the honour falls to someone who used to run a video store in Phoenix, Arizona. | | |
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 | Jacobin |
| A bullshit job is a job which is so pointless that even the person doing the job secretly believes that it shouldn’t exist. And there are more now than ever. | | |
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 | Vice |
| It turns out they have a lot in common with each other. | | |
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 | Compete |
| “Game developers don’t like me,” said Sabina Hemmi. “Before I came around, there was no insight into how balanced a game was.” | | |
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 | Tedium |
| Pondering the surprising number of musical acts that have official members that don’t actually play an instrument or sing. You know, like Coldplay. | | |
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 | recode |
| On the latest episode of Recode Media with Peter Kafka, Wall Street Journal media reporter Keach Hagey joined Kafka in studio to talk about her new book, "The King of Content: Sumner Redstone's Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire." | | |
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 | The Globe and Mail |
| Canadian author Margaret Atwood examines how she landed in such hot water among her peers for signing an open letter regarding UBC’s handling of a sexual-harassment case | | |
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 | HuffPost Highline |
| Power alone does not explain the abuses of famous men. | | |
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 | Fast Company |
| The hashtagging, meme-sharing, emoji-writing analyst is the scourge of titans like Disney and the champion of New Media. What’s in it for him? | | |
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 | POLITICO Magazine |
| It could be the coolest new neighborhood on the planet-or a peek into the Orwellian metropolis that knows everything you did last night. | | |
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 | TechCrunch |
| The company is rolling out more detailed maps built from its own data for the first time I'm not sure if you're aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. | | |
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 | New York Magazine |
| Our society is starved for compassion, gratitude, spirituality, and connection. Psychedelics can help. | | |
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 | Medium |
| Many crypto enthusiasts are looking at blockchains as a way to correct the sins of the past (government over-reach, lack of sound money, expensive middlemen, centralized businesses, etc.) The truly important question should be way bigger than this: How can crypto-powered businesses create new types of abundance? | | |
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 | Meaningness |
| How muggles and sociopaths invade and undermine creative subcultures; and how to stop them. | | |
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 | Quartz |
| Rationality is one of the most valuable life tools, but alone, it’s not enough. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| The long read: Before Xi Jinping, the internet was becoming a more vibrant political space for Chinese citizens. But today the country has the largest and most sophisticated online censorship operation in the world | | |
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