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What's Changing? - Fear

Submitted by Halcyon Imagines on 1 December 2024
Fear

 

Please see below selected recent fear-related change.

 

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December 2024

 

February 2024

What's Changing? - Generosity
Generosity
Halcyon Identifies 13 November 2023

 

Please see below selected recent generosity-related change.

 

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November 2023

On Qualia

Submitted by Halcyon In Kal… on 23 July 2020
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If we're dominated and therefore de facto separated by our qualia - i.e. the the subjective quality of conscious experience - can we ever reasonably hope to reach a consensus on what should be our shared values?

On Anonymity Halcyon In Kal… 21 January 2016

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Is our great contemporary fear anonymity?

If the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmodernism is it visibility?  So asked the writer of a thought-provoking article on our obsession with connectivity.

Is this what our contemporary selves really want?  To be recognised, to be connected, to be visible, if not to the millions via, say, the X Factor, then at least to the hundreds, via Twitter or Facebook or LinkedIn?

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There are no strangers here- only friends you haven't yet met - William Butler Yeats

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Writing is alone, yes, but I don't think it's lonely - Margaret Atwood

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Visit us, please, from a previous century and you'll see us walking down the streets, wired cockleshells in ears, jabbering like lunatics in a Victorian asylum - from David Hare's "It all started 96 hours after 9/11"

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The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude - Aldous Huxley

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