You do not fall in love because you managed to see a lovable Someone, you manage to see that Someone because you previously managed to love. Jean Luc Marion wrote in Le Phénomène érotique that your desire wants to want better. So, as it is often the case, your desire falsifies the object of its… Continuă lectura WHAT THEY SEE AND WHAT YOU GET
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Afterthoughts
Today’s politics lost its political prestige and today’s common man lost its human prominence. Together, they make bad democracy. Somehow, everyone feels unfortunate, misrepresented, misunderstood, hurt, inconsolably stuck in a majority or in a minority, a direct target of some hostile policy, victim with no prospects, champion without a win. As a crowd, we have… Continuă lectura Afterthoughts
Oldies, not Goldies
Nothing defines the old age better than ambiguity. We grow old in highly ambiguous ways. This ambiguity is constantly nurtured from three sources: the waste, the chill, and the absence. I’ll approach them one by one. The waste… …is, in every respect, enormous. Illnesses wasting the body; nostalgia wasting the heart; those long, empty hours… Continuă lectura Oldies, not Goldies
Who’s Your Boss?
A spare day that you started the wrong way loses its structure and freedom completely. There is nothing you can do anymore. That day, you were not free, you were slave. That day served you no more, you served it instead: yes Master, and please Master, and right away Master. The only way to deal… Continuă lectura Who’s Your Boss?
THE MAN WITHOUT PRIORITIES
There’s nothing sadder than a man without priorities. His life is being lived in his absence. Let me go further into this matter. First of all, a priority is not an ambition. The difference between the two is vast. An ambition is a desire or a weakness, while a priority is a value or a… Continuă lectura THE MAN WITHOUT PRIORITIES
Durerile, Fantomele
Am fost ieri seară la Teatrul de Artă să văd „Dureri Fantomă”, de Vasili Sigarev, ultimul spectacol din stagiunea asta, în regia lui Bogdan Budeș. După primul sfert de ceas, în spațiul acela sufocant de mic, spațiul acela care te obligă să respiri povestea, nu doar s-o vezi, s-o crezi și s-o simți, în spațiul… Continuă lectura Durerile, Fantomele
What Goes Around Comes Around
A couple of weeks ago I bought my first pair of leather pants in 17 years. Behind the curtain in the changing room, I felt strange, almost like I was tricking myself into believing I am not ridiculous. By the time I am 50 I will probably be looking for my very last pair of… Continuă lectura What Goes Around Comes Around
Why We All Love Others’ Selfies
A selfie is a micro-crisis in self-confidence as captured by one’s personal (phone) camera, and posted on various social media platforms, with the purpose of achieving an immediate sense of fulfilment and restoration of one’s self-esteem, by appealing to others’ sense of self-pity, resentment, or irritation. Now, superficially speaking, the liker of a selfie symbolically… Continuă lectura Why We All Love Others’ Selfies
Dreams
There must be so many cowards hiding behind their dreams! A life full of dreams is just as full and just as empty as a newly freed hotel room: thousands and thousands of absences floating around, filling the corners, thrilling the bed sheets. Everyone‘s in there and no one‘s to be found. “Never give up your dreams!” is a dangerous… Continuă lectura Dreams
What is Truth?
Lies. We live with them. Depending on the occasion, social circumstances and spiritual availabilities, we tolerate them, we ridicule them, we ignore them, we underestimate them, we detest them, we cherish them, we refine them and, if we really must, we fight them. Often than we realize, we take all the above necessary “psychological actions”… Continuă lectura What is Truth?
