The Tissue-Industrial Complex
- At April 16, 2006
- By Bob Howe
- In Blog Posts
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An old friend, Rebecca Skloot, has the (fascinating) cover story in today’s New York Times Magazine, Taking the Least of You.
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We shouldn’t fool ourselves into mistaking the world as we experience it for the world as it really is.
The two are related, but the relationship is complicated, and it’s real work to figure it out.
@Popehat We're never going to change their hearts and minds if we treat this kind of conduct as a bad thing.
Oscar Hokeah's blog post: Debut Novel: CALLING FOR A BLANKET DANCE https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/21549394-debut-novel-calling-for-a-blanket-dance via @goodreads
“the…novelist, who seeks to confer or receive amusement from his labours, may, without presumption, apply to prose fiction a licence, or rather a rule, from the adoption of which so many exquisite combinations of human feeling have resulted in the highest specimens of poetry.”
Jeff Bezos being lionized by rote, thoughtless coverage for going to space privately, decades after we did it first collectively, speaks of the ethos of an age: we've come to venerate what we do alone and sneer at what we do together.
Let's reverse that.
https://the.ink/p/what-we-do-alone-and-what-we-do-together
kijjohnson
Interesting article. On an unrelated note, Skloot is a fabulous last name.
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You know Becca—you met her, anyway: she was one of the technicians at Lake Grove.
kijjohnson
That’s right! I forgot.
minnehaha
The Article
I printed it.
Airplane reading….
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Re: The Article
Saw you quoted in the piece on security cameras today. Bentham’s panopticon.