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Philosophy has nothing to say about death. Only poetry. I wish I had memorized more poetry.
– Richard Rorty, the secular humanist philosopher as quoted in The Huffington Post (via beingblog) -
In a way, new technologies have made us all like Baudelaire. We are intoxicated by the multitude but cannot ignore its troubling aspects. Like Baudelaire, we are trying to find our private life in the crowd while protecting our “real” selves in a public persona. Blogs and social networking sites are like diaries with broken locks. They are confessions written for an audience. They let us feel as if we can fabricate a personal world for ourselves, a world we can control. We listen to music no one else can hear and read emails while standing on a crowded bus because we are looking for privacy. Baudelaire used poetry and fashion; we use PDAs and e-readers and the Internet. With boundless access to information, we can easily observe the crowd. But we cannot escape being observed. And we wonder if we can find the private life we’re looking for, either in the public space of the real world or in the virtual one.
– The Smart Set: Privacy Policy - October 13, 2011 (via wildcat2030)(via wildcat2030)
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Robyn is dancing on her own (or, single) as of December, 2011.
–Robyn’s “Personal Life” section on Wikipedia
When will Facebook add “dancing on my own” as an option in Relationship Status?
(via corycavin)
