Meta is Murder

“If I didn’t want to compete, I wanted even less to make new rules about what constitutes victory. I would want what everyone else wanted, even if I couldn’t attain it.” - Faye, in R...

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I’ve been surprised —stupidly— at the seeming resurgence of moralizing in pop culture (on all parts of all spectra) . I once felt that by aesthetic chance, pop culture had stumbled onto the...

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As one moves between the general and the specific, two things that vary are (1) accuracy and (2) reach. ACCURACY: how well your policy, design, idea, opinion describes the real facts of reality, ...

https://metaismurder.com/post/105900375956

I am an allergic and reactive person, most outraged by the sorts of intellectual atrocities I myself commit. To say this is merely to assert the personal applicability of the now-hoary Hermann He...

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“We disparage ourselves endlessly, sometimes with reason… but more often, and more damningly, with a kind of black clarity of judgment that reaches right past all that we have or have not don...

https://metaismurder.com/post/84648259811

Saints Augustine and Monica, Ary Scheffer, 1854.

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By Nika States .

https://metaismurder.com/post/80277873434

For many years since reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, I’ve wondered irritably: was David Foster Wallace mocking real people in his essay on the cruise-ship experience? Spe...

https://metaismurder.com/post/75169272864

So long, Bayou; so long, 2013.

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Landscapes by Frank Walter (1926-2009), shared here for use in escaping oneself and touching the ground of being, or being consoled amidst all the frothing, confused reactivity of culture by wha...

https://metaismurder.com/post/59699122176

If this piece gives you concerns about my viability as an employee, renter, applicant, neighbor, etc., PLEASE READ THIS DISCLAIMER / CLAIMER. I have an almost technical interest in attempting...

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My father, his father, and his brother in the 1950s. It took me an inexcusably long time to realize how much of what I like about myself, how much of what enables the happiness or goodness I att...

https://metaismurder.com/post/53133996505

This photo was taken in 2003, when she was just a few years old. We had so many adventures over the years; I don’t know how much less I might have lived, how much more closed I’d have been, h...

https://metaismurder.com/post/50963471958

Miles Barger  posted this wonderful image from The Neighbors , a photographic series by Arne Svenson  of scenes in the windows of his Manhattan neighbors. They seem to assert the primacy of u...

https://metaismurder.com/post/50754071353

“The Church has become close to me in its distrust of man, and my distrust of form, my urgent desire to withdraw from it, to claim ‘that that is not yet I,’ which accompanies my every thoug...

https://metaismurder.com/post/50740989063

Venice Running to greet her father as he returns from a diplomatic trip. The Alps Bay St. Louis, MS Bay St. Louis, MS My mother doesn’t care for mother’s day, dislikes its manufact...

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One of the most significant intellectual errors educated persons make is in underestimating the fallibility of science. The very best scientific theories containing our soundest, most reliable kn...

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“Look at the masterpiece, and not at the frame — and not at the faces of other people looking at the frame.” - Vladimir Nabokov in his lectures on Russian literature, opposing the prim...

https://metaismurder.com/post/46368229929

> “The leaders always had good consciences, for conscience in them > coalesced with will, and those who looked on their face were as much > smitten with wonder at th...

https://metaismurder.com/post/44155254813

Dont Ask Me I Just Work Here : > The family that Tumblr built. Left to right: Abby Myles > , Jess Kelso > , Mills Baker > , David Cole , > Tag Savage . I aspire to the l...

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