September 2011
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“What remains of democracy is largely the right to choose among commodities....”
– Noam Chomsky, Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (2003)
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“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
– African proverb (via human-voices)
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Photographer Seamus Murphy's Long-Term Look at... →
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“A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.”
– Leo Rosten
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“A Republic, if you can keep it.”
– Benjamin Franklin, to a questioner after being asked what kind of government had been created in Independence Hall in the summer of 1787.
Pretty much everything I think about politics derives from that last clause: “if you can keep it.” Politicians can be demagogic, thoughtless and stupid. Media...
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“The mystery isn’t in the technique, it’s in each of us.”
– Harry Callahan
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“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be...”
– Leo Rosten
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“You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can”t face...”
– Malcolm X (1925-1965)
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“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
– Jane Addams, Speech, Honolulu (1933)
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Errol Morris Looks For Truth Outside Photographs →
Not a great interview, but Mr. Morris’ book sounds like a unique and long overdue statement about photojournalism. Like in most important things we tend to miss the point due to laziness and preconceptions.
