5 posts tagged “truth”
"There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth."
On a related note, I'm often frustrated by people who don't understand the difference between not lying and telling the truth. Not lying is easy; telling the truth is much harder. Even getting to the truth is more work than most people want to do, preferring instead to rest easy on predefined assumptions. Leaves me with a lot of admiration for the folks I know who really do try to dig down to understanding.
Anyway. Something I've been thinking about during this balmy holiday day here in Austin...
"There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth."
On a related note, I'm often frustrated by people who don't understand the difference between not lying and telling the truth. Not lying is easy; telling the truth is much harder.
"There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth."
On a related note, I'm often frustrated by people who don't understand the difference between not lying and telling the truth. Not lying is easy; telling the truth is much harder.
from an article on lonelygirl15 in the latest issue of wired:
"Many assumed the series would sputter and die. Media reports zeroed in on how viewers had been duped, suggesting an inevitable backlash. But the fans -- raised on the unreality of reality TV and with the role-playing ethos of the Web -- seemed to take the revelation in stride. One guy who had corresponded regularly with Bree wrote to ask if he'd been conversing with Jessica Rose.
" 'No, you've been talking to Bree,' came the reply (from Amanda). 'If you want to talk to Jessica Rose, you can go to her MySpace page. If you want to keep talking to Bree, use this email.'
" 'Fair enough,' the fan wrote back, and then went on to tell Bree the latest news in his life."
this is my favorite thing ever. kids these days have such an immensely sophisticated understanding of the relationship between reality and narrative (as opposed to fiction.) enough of you old people with your black-and-white, right-and-wrong, true-and-false dichotomies. i for one welcome our new reality-based overlords.
"Some lists were tortured records of cultural duty: Dense classics would march solemnly towards the top, only to be demoted (as soon as watching them became a real possibility) and replaced by season three of Felicity, until finally all the most challenging films of the 20th century were pooled at the bottom of the list like dark sediment beneath a froth of romantic comedies. It's the Netflix version of the divided soul: The end of your list is the person you want to be—Eraserhead, the eight-hour BBC Bleak House, the complete Werner Herzog—while the top is the person you actually are: Wedding Crashers, Scary Movie 4, The Bridges of Madison County."
from Slate, "Judging your friends by their Netflix queues."
season three was the jump-the-shark season, sadly, when felicity cut her hair. what were they thinking?
