“wrongness always seems to come at us from left field - that is, from outside ourselves. But the reality could hardly be more different. Error is the ultimate inside job. Yes, the world can be profoundly confusing; and yes, other people can mislead or deceive you. In the end, though, nobody but you can choose to believe your own beliefs.” PeopleWorldBelieveDifferentEndsRealitySeemsJobsBeliefLeftFieldsUltimateErrorsDeceivingConfusingMisleadLeft Field Author:Kathryn Schulz
“I don't always know what's going to go on in terms of the mood of the story. Sometimes I start with the mood, but sometimes I just try to work toward discovering it. But I do think often there's a mood or unsettling quality, in which the reality of the world seems to be taken away, that I really love, and it's something that I almost always unconsciously move toward.” ThinkingKnowsWorldTryingSometimesStoriesRealitySeemsMovingTermQualityTakenGoes OnMoodDiscovering Author:Brian Evenson
“In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. Its nauseating, programme after programme.” RealitySeemsTelevisionAreasThrownProgrammesReality Television Author:Ken Stott
“The days when the words Hollywood actor framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.” RealitySeemsActorsPartyHollywoodSeriesFingersCrowdsTeaExtrasCandidatesInsultTea PartyTagFramedHamBunniesShamelessConsultantsImpliedPunditsQuaint Author:James Wolcott
“Compare mathematics and the political sciences - it's quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification. But in order to speak about social reality, you must have the proper credentials, particularly if you depart from the accepted framework of thinking. Generally speaking, it seems fair to say that the richer the intellectual substance of a field, the less there is a concern for credentials, and the greater is the concern for content.” PeopleIfsThinkingRealitySeemsPoliticalOrderSpeakSocialGreaterFieldsIntellectualConcernConcernedFairsMathematicsAcceptedPhysicsSubstanceCompareFrameworkPolitical ScienceCredentials Book:The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature Source: The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.” MenDoeWarRealitySeemsCertainEmotionSituationMilitaryFrontsEventsDangerExamplePerceptionNewsMassArmySurpriseCrowdsSensitiveExpertsVisibleRaysDefeatedObscureTranscendentalAurasGreat Events Author:Marcel Proust