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“and there was a beautiful view but nobody could see cause everybody on the island was saying look at me”

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Laurie Anderson, born on June 5, 1947, is an American artist known for her multimedia performances, visual art, and music. Her works blend sound, visual, and performance art, exploring themes of personal identity, technology, and culture. more

“Or was he merely a mollycoddled favorite, enjoying capriciously prejudiced love? Schenback was inclined to believe the latter. Inborn in nearly every artist’s nature is a voluptuous, treacherous tendency to accept the injustice if it creates beauty and to grant sympathy and homage to aristocratic preferences.”

Society Social Commentary

Book:Death in Venice and Other Tales

Source: Death in Venice and Other Tales

“One might say that there is an "ethics barrier " a speed above which ethics can no longer exit. After that point the only remaining goal is to survive the immediate moment.”

Society Survival Ethics

Book:The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

Source: The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business

“Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.”

Society Organization

Book:Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“I used to believe in 'em [lines]. I don't anymore. They in our heads. People like Miss Hilly is always trying to make us believe they there. But they ain't." - Aibileen”

Race Society Color

Author:Kathryn Stockett

“The centrality of group effort to human life means that anything that changes the way groups function will have profound ramifications for everything from commerce and government to media and religion.”

Society

Book:Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Source: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

“It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.”

Society Morality Self Belief

Book:Walden & Civil Disobedience

Source: Walden & Civil Disobedience

“Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.”

Community Society Importance

Book:Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

Source: Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging

“Sometimes you need a reminder that negative comments about your body aren’t even really about your body, they’re about society and our society’s wrongheaded and impossibly narrow definition of a “good” body. Your body didn’t do anything wrong. What’s fucked up about your body is not your body at all, but that your body has to live in a society that thinks it has a right to say fucked up things about your body.”

Inspirational Society Body Image Societal Norms Body Hatred

Author:Golda Poretsky

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