001739

“More and more, we present ourselves and encounter others through profiles. A profile shows us not as we are seen directly but how we are perceived by a broader public. As we observe how others observe us, we calibrate our self-presentation accordingly....

001740

“I don’t fly in airplanes. The whole idea doesn’t make visceral sense to me. I see giant buildings flying through the air and every time I see one I think: a: that’s impossible, and, b: that thing is going to crash. Now, I also play guitar....

001741

“How to begin to come to some understanding of one’s place in a system, when one is a part of an area that exists in such a troubling relation to the rest of the world, a world that is itself stripped of any static, understandable character by the fact...

001745

“I have been a computer technician since around the mid 1980’s, primarily specializing in Apple tech. As you can surmise, I am now getting on in years, however, I still help people when the opportunity arises. Over the years I noticed that I had a...

001746

It’s not that we actually have two distinct minds. Indeed, the mind cannot tell us what it is at all, though we exert every effort to compose sophisticated models and language about such matters. If the mind cannot declare to us its own nature and...