“Painting should educate and enrich. Modern painting merely offers a split-second emotion: You see it, you have an instant reaction and move on. Instead, real painting can be looked at over and over again and each time it has something new.” ShouldRealMovingEmotionModernPaintingOffersReactionsInstantSomething NewEducateSplits Author:Igor Babailov
“Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been assigned low tribal status". And so, of course, they plot rebellion - accuse the existing tribal overlords of corruption plot, perhaps to split off their own little tribe in the savanna, not realizing that this is impossible in the Modern World.” WorldYearsHumansLittlesHas BeensSchoolCoursesRealizingBrainImpossibleModernLowsAdultsCorruptionPlotMapsRebellionSplitsTribesModern WorldSchool SystemSavanna Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.” WorldMindFactsFeelingsSpiritValuesModernMoralityTreatsRealmsSplitsSecularSubjectiveDualism Author:Nancy Pearcey
“My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun.” NamesLossLevelsCitiesEnemyModernNew YorkBoundariesBoredPrivacyVillageConformityTerritorySplitsModern LifeNew York TimesSuburbsHousewifeIndescribableShotguns Book:John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“The equilibrium you admire in me is an unstable one, difficult to maintain. My inner life was split early between the call of the Ancestors and the call of Europe, between the exigencies of black-African culture and those of modern life.” CultureDifficultBlackModernEuropeAdmireAncestorSplitsModern LifeInner LifeEquilibriumUnstableAfrican Culture Author:Leopold Sedar Senghor
“Speed, the fundamental condition of the activities of our day is the power of photography, indeed the modern art of today, the art of the split second.” ArtTodayModernConditionsActivityPhotographyFundamentalsSpeedSplitsModern Art Book:Lisette Model Source: Lisette Model