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Looks like it is now being hugged to death. Here are the last two I could get out. On Music: “To understand more about what music can tell us about life, T
by pgt 6y ago
Looks like it is now being hugged to death. Here are the last two I could get out. On Music:
“To understand more about what music can tell us about life, Thompson says to think of music as a natural resource – think of the raw material, the resource of human emotion.”
On Sex:
“The taboo about sex means we underestimate the value of shame."
- andybak 6y agoThat last one is (maybe superficially) profound so I went looking for the source. From a brief search I can't find anything sex-related (Only Anthony Bourdain talking about food wastage) What are the chances this is a novel "thought"?
- hoseja 6y agoDoes it make sense though? I don't see anything more profound than a logical contradiction.
- dcow 6y agoYes. The suggestion is that taboos exist as a way to fortify and perpetuate repressive hegemony. I’m actually having more trouble parsing your second sentence than the sentence in question.
- klyrs 6y ago> I’m actually having more trouble parsing your second sentence than the sentence in question. An easy shortcut to apparent wisdom is to juxtapose apparently contradictory statements, and let your audience seek the meaning within. The harder it is to find meaning, the wiser you appear -- but if it's clearly meaningless, you're exposed as a fool. (see what I did there?) An example of true wisdom taking the same format, which is paraphrased from a Buddhist text: "a fool thinks he is wise, but a wise man knows that he is a fool". A.k.a the Dunning-Kreuger effect.
- notahacker 6y agohttps://plagiarismdetector.net/ https://plagiarismdetector.net/ marks it as 100% plagiarized, albeit the source link is dead so I can't verify it. Interestingly the other snippet - the one that appeared to be cribbed from a book review - is marked as plagiarized only to this thread :D