'Train station' by E. Kozlov (1875) People I'm excited about right now (#1) I'm interrupting you mid-week to do something I don't normally do – highlight a few people here on the internet who do work I think is worth sharing. Matthew Stanley
Knowledge is (probably) toxic Just like interacting with radioactive material without proper protective gear, being around "knowledge" without having safeguards in place is likelier to leave us more vulnerable to the world, rather than less. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
"Friedrich Nietzsche genuflecting in the style of a Roman Catholic icon" – Looks more like Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door in Wittenburg. Well, he was the son of a Lutheran minister. Nietzsche's critique of pity Nietzsche’s alternative account of mitleid illuminates what people are doing when they perform an act of empathy, and his account does this by cutting against our beliefs about what we think we are doing in the empathic act. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
Medicine for me, poison for you Philosophy is like a poison -- a medicine for some may be a poison for others. Matthew Stanley • Philosophy
Jonah and the Gourd Vine by Jack Baumgartner (1999) https://theschoolofthetransferofenergy.com/work/painting/ The ego is not your ally The quandary of the Ego’s split behavior prompts the question -- “what does the Ego want?” What is the Ego’s own self-interest which it conspires to achieve in the psychic deals which it brokers and enforces? Matthew Stanley • Psychoanalysis
"In the wild north" by Ivan Shishkin The once and future reader My words, like a leaf carried downstream across innumerable swirling eddies of space-time, narrowly escaping the maw of destruction countless times, only to be delivered, ever so improbably, into their wide open hands. Matthew Stanley
