The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which encourage a dark voyeurism into other people's humiliation, pain, weakness, and betrayal.
Chris HedgesTag: reality america celebrity television culture tv
In The Republic, Plato imagines human beings chained for the duration of their lives in an underground cave, knowing nothing but darkness. Their gaze is confined to the cave wall, upon which shadows of the world are thrown. They believe these flickering shadows are reality. If, Plato writes, one of these prisoners is freed and brought into the sunlight, he sill suffer great pain. Blinded by the glare, he is unable to seeing anything and longs for the familiar darkness. But eventually his eyes adjust to the light. The illusion of the tiny shadows is obliterated. He confronts the immensity, chaos, and confusion of reality. The world is no longer drawn in simple silhouettes. But he is despised when he returns to the cave. He is unable to see in the dark as he used to. Those who never left the cave ridicule him and swear never to go into the light lest they be blinded as well.
Chris HedgesTag: reality celebrity plato republic
Words are a powerful aphrodisiac. They have the ability to awaken emotion, to excite the minds and senses. The right words entice, creep and crawl along the skin like the sensuous touch of a skilled lover. THAT my friends, is truly magical indeed...
Shan O' ConnorTag: reality
I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.
Marilynne RobinsonTag: thinking reality dreaming
The strange paradox of science is that it does not explain reality, it explains our fantasy. It is a beautiful thing.
Laren Grey UmphlettTag: reality philosophy science-fiction-romance
In everyone’s life, there is a line between reality and dreams; but poets don’t have that line.
M.F. MoonzajerI might be a very weird lover; having you the center of my dreams and reality.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: reality dreams weird center lover
Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood existence of real men and women. On the contrary, it seizes on the flimsiness of dramatic characters as a metaphor for the fleeting, fantasy-ridden quality of actual human lives. It is we who are made of dreams, not just such figments of Shakespeare’s imagination as Ariel and Caliban. The cloud-capped towers and gorgeous palaces of this earth are mere stage scenery after all.
Terry EagletonTag: existence reality shakespeare dreams literature
The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.
Alain de BottonTag: reality possibilities anxiety sundays
The definition of a professional is one who does a job well even when they don't like it.
Alan SheinwaldTag: individuality wisdom imagination inspirational truth intelligence perception strength honesty experience reality knowledge learning inspiration freedom philosophy belief integrity confidence carpe-diem planning change joy classic be-yourself accomplishment human-nature infinity light mistakes strategy smiling action actions best alan-sheinwald
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