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“In sex, in towel wringing, in dishwashing, as in everything else, he was exactly himself. If being exactly yourself meant you had to suffer the loneliness of being unlike anyone else, he seemed not to mind. The insularity of his lifestyle cradled him.”

Self Lifestyle Being Yourself Uniqueness Eccentricity Insularity Being Oneself

Book:Bliss Montage

Source: Bliss Montage

“Travel was a species of warfare.”

Comfort Openness Skepticism Insularity

Book:A Room with a View

Source: A Room with a View

“Well, it’s something I never felt before I joined up,” he said, returning to his slow careful manner. “But coming back this time, I’ve felt it all right. [Farming] seems to cut you off too much. After a time, if you don’t look out, you don’t seem to care what’s happening to other people. You aren’t part of anything. You’re out for yourself – and just your family. Mind you, it’s easy to feel like that – because you have to work hard and it takes nearly all your time—and you don’t meet many people who are doing different jobs, the way you do in towns. But it’s not right somehow. It shouldn’t be like that. We’ve had enough of that.”

Society Isolation Farming Insularity

Book:Three Men in New Suits

Source: Three Men in New Suits

“The counter-culture was global - or so we thought. For the first time we felt in touch with California and Paris, Poland and India and together we would change the world. Even Edinburgh would move to a more open and humane and anarchic direction. It and we would be a tonic to the nation and the very idea of 'nation' would become irrelevant. Scottish culture believed itself to be 'European' but surely it gloried in a powerful insularity too. And that was all to be moribund, this was a brave new world and we had no irony in that belief. The dystopias of Huxley and Orwell were forgotten - we now had the key to happiness. And surprisingly even now, it still seems we were doing the right thing and it was good.”

Happiness Europe Edinburgh Brave New World Counter Culture Insularity Scottish Culture

Book:Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000

Source: Justified Sinners: An Archaeology of Scottish Counter Culture, 1960 - 2000

“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between himself and those in neighboring bubbles are insurmountable. The resident of a given bubble has become so inured to the echoes of his own ‘truth’ as to abandon all terms of commonality with the ‘truths’ of others outside his bubble. The internal terms, concepts, definitions and assumptions underlying each paradigm are different and incommensurate with those of their external counterparts. And so, to debate them would be tantamount to speaking through one another without much mutual understanding. In their communities, they speak different words, abide by different sets of logic, axioms and propositions from those of other communities; they, thusly, do not understand the terminology upholding other paradigms beside their own, and many attempts at translation have become lost in circular discourse for there exists no equivalency of terms. Thus, any gaps between bubbles of paradigm are beyond traversal; all arguments between them remain perplexing and irreconcilable. There, then, evolves, among them, a strong tendency to seek out information that only serves to confirm their own biases, and, in the process, to otherize any alien paradigms as hotbeds of disinformation.”

Paradigm Postmodernism Epistemology Phenomenology Confirmation Bias Post Truth Theory Of Knowledge Echo Chamber Insularity Information Bubbles Plurality Of Truth

Author:Ashim Shanker

“... Mr Jellyband was indeed a typical rural John Bull of those days --- the days when our prejudiced insularity was at its height, when to an Englishman, be he lord, yeoman, or peasant, the whole of the continent of Europe was a den of immorality and the rest of the world an unexploited land of savages and cannibals.”

Racism England Parochialism Insularity

Author:Baroness Orczy

“For all the insularity of the old guard, Pittsburgh was always an open and democratic town.”

Cities Towns Democratic Pittsburgh Insularity

Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“The Englishman's strong point is his vigorous insularity; that of the American his power of adaptation. Each of these attitudes has its perils. The Englishman stands firmly on his feet, but he who merely does this never advances. The American's disposition is to step forward even at the risk of a fall.”

Doe Fall Strong Attitude Steps United States Risk Feet England Disposition Adaptation Peril Englishmen Vigorous Steps Forward Stand Firm Insularity

Author:Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“There is a insularity within American fiction even for adults. It's very tough for books in translation in the US.”

Book Fiction Adults Tough Translations Insularity

Author:Laila Lalami

“I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.”

Way Passion Lovers Distinction Blur Insularity

Book:The Real Thing

Source: The Real Thing

“If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.”

People Ifs Wells Littles Self Might Would Be Strong Causes Black Hurt Promise Consequence Like Me Self Respect Nationalism Turmoil Black Nationalism Insularity

Author:Barack Obama

“What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.”

Problem Political Forget Smart Elites Competent Smugness Insularity

Author:Glenn Reynolds

“Western societies from ancient Athens to imperial Rome to the French republic rarely collapsed because of a shortage of resources or because foreign enemies proved too numerous or formidable in arms - even when those enemies were grim Macedonians or Germans. Rather, in times of peace and prosperity there arose an unreal view of the world beyond their borders, one that was the product of insularity brought about by success, and an intellectual arrogance that for some can be the unfortunate byproduct of an enlightened society.”

“Insularity is the foundation of ethnocentrism and intolerance; when you only know of those like yourself, it is easy to imagine that you are alone in the world or alone in being good and right in the world. Exposure to diversity, on the contrary, is the basis for relativism and tolerance; when you are forced to face and accept the Other as real, unavoidable, and ultimately valuable, you cannot help but see yourself and your 'truths' in a new - and trouble - way.”