Drew Woodman

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:29:54 -0400

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

- Carl Jung. I think this sentence ought to be inscribed in whatever spaces cultural critics occupy while scribbling their attacks on this or that generation, this or that movement. All of us ought to bear it in mind; we’d be less brutal in our judgments, more self-aware, less contented with ourselves, more forgiving of others.

A problem: criticism is a crucial part of reaction, of experience; one cannot limply allow all that happens to wash over one without a response. Indeed, a central problem in our culture seems to be a paucity of criticism: nothing is interrogated, dissected, contextualized, explained, partly because nothing is even heeded. Everyone is disgorging opinions and works in such a torrent that there is no time for real, contemplative criticism.

(A theory: relativism triumphs in the contemporary West not because most decide on it but because for various technological reasons there simply isn’t enough time or mental space to sort through so many competing, dissonant streams of information: better to let them pool, puddle, and evaporate).

Is it senseless to oppose the criticism that springs from irritation? Shouldn’t I be irritated by hypocrisy, by mendacity, by false art, by superficiality, by deliberate obfuscation in culture and politics? Is it really the case that my irritation isn’t driven by righteous outrage at the violation of moral or aesthetic principles so much as discomfited recognition of my own hypocrisy, mendacity, and so on?

I believe it is. I believe this explains why “hypocrisy” is the favorite charge of this indignant age: we are disgusted by hypocrisy because we recognize all our condemnations, all our judgments, as fundamentally hypocritical; hypocrisy is the essential quality of human outrage -which is always hypocritical-, and therefore it is our most severe accusation. We often hear: “I wouldn’t object to so-and-so doing such-and-such, it’s their denial of it, the hypocrisy of it!”

We know that we all disguise our motives, falsify our behavior, depend on various private selves, and since we are ambivalent about this necessary and constant form of dissimulation, we despise it in others. I have come to think of this loathing of hypocrisy is a coded request for forgiveness; whenever we savage someone for their flaws, we disclose what we detest about ourselves, what we hope to be forgiven for.

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"Sometimes, running away means you’re headed in the exact right direction."

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:16:46 -0400

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- Alice Hoffman

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Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:25:58 -0400

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"Stories in books are unlike the story that plays out in front of your eyes. You are main character..."

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:16:15 -0400

“Stories in books are unlike the story that plays out in front of your eyes.
You are main character in your story but you will always be a supporting character or even an extra in others.”

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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:01:06 -0400

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Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:57:03 -0400

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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:23:20 -0400

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HI WORLD

Life's Books

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:22:48 -0400

Everyone in life has an autobiography based upon them.

A dramatic retell of events that define what kind of person they are.

A crybaby with a heart of gold…

A mafia thug with a knack for killing…

A poetic hypocrite with words of ideology only to practice cynicism…

Like a book, life needs emotion and intrigue to keep pages turning.

The crybaby can end up with a pure-hearted women giving him newfound life or dieing alone if he lets fate take control of his life.

The mafia thug could end up rich and infamous by leading a mafia family or end up died from a drive-by run.

The poet can find peace in his own writing after not believing a word he wrote or continue to go deeper into his cynical nature to change his tone of his work.

Like life, a book is never set in stone until the writer says it will.

So get busy writing folks and leave us a yearn to help write, it could end up to be a masterpiece!

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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:07:30 -0400

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:05:08 -0500

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"What is sacred in a human being is the impersonal in him… Our personality is the part of us which..."

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:53:12 -0500

“What is sacred in a human being is the impersonal in him… Our personality is the part of us which belongs to error and sin. The whole effort of the mystic has always been to become such that there is no part left in his soul to say ‘I’.”

- Simone Weil, quoted by Zadie smith as cited by Peter Santiago.

We have for some time lived in an age of personality. It is culturally valued above everything else possessed or exhibited by the individual. One’s moral choices, willed decisions, even one’s behavioral history are minimally important in comparison to one’s personality; our media care only for it, cater and serve it, allot fame by its catalytic effects on audiences.

Nothing could be more anathema to the spirit of our confessional, graphomaniacal, self-aggrandizing time than Weil’s opposition to the “I”. “What is sacred in a human being is the impersonal”: not in the age of the ever-personal, when reticence and self-effacement are deplored as dysfunctional.

Let us tearily confess to the viewers -how brave to share our emotions! We’ll speak our “selves”, post by post! And we’ll update our “statuses”: abbreviated, gussied fragments of interior monologue, evidence of the exchange between interior and exterior, the rise of personality and the decline of reflection. Status: the bleeping of a probe deep in space, beyond its range, updating unlistening engineers on its velocity, its energy levels, its functioning camera. Perhaps it can take a photo of itself.

Don’t listen to Weil! Think not of the impersonal but of “the way the camera follows us in slo-mo, the way we look to us all”! Or consider, at any rate, the possibility that our obsession with selfhood is somehow concomitant with the foreclosure of the individual’s avenues of transcendence: hemmed in by the reductive and denied the mythical, what else can one plumb for depth but the self?

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Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:22:46 -0500

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Con la audiencia del capítulo que se emite hoy por la noche, la cadena tomará una decisión respecto a la serie. Las opciones vienen siendo solamente dos: o nos mantenemos, o nos vamos a la mierda. Total, que así estamos, en equilibrio inestable y asomados al abismo. Ay.

(este Batman estupendo lo pinta Fernando Lucas)