More importantly, by placing emphasis on human activities mediated by information and technology, this articulation shifts the field's focus from agencies of collection such as libraries or archives, which more typically are invoked when describing subject coverage in schools of library and information science, to the contexts in which people, information and technology interact
Reminds me of Bates' following the "red thread" of information.
step was to determine if a conceptual core of knowledgeand skills existed for the field.
Reminds me of what we were talking about in the context of DH In MITH's classes.
Thiscasting of the field into two divided camps is nothing new, but it is no longerclear that this division reflects the reality of many LIS programs."
Reminds me of Saracevic's two camps: systems oriented, human oriented.
Like Square, people became aware of the product by seeing others use it as well. New users learn about Snapchat before ever having to download the app themselves—by seeing friends use it or even taking part in the experience by jumping in for group selfies
this reminds me of when people use chubble and try to make faces to send a message.
I think we should encourage that
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This reminds me so much of Avatar. All I can think about is Avatar.
air- ship
this reminds me of Zepllins
The room, though it contained nothing, was in touch with all that she cared for in the world.
This reminds me a lot of cell phones and how they are just a complex metal and glass box with wires, they contain for most of us our entire life whether it be phone number of friends, or music we love, or pictures of people important to us. The room in the story contains nothing, yet she finds fulfillment in its ability to provide for her.
n some sense, they are "trained" but they have no experience. (In fact, the two quartermaster chiefs with whom I worked most closely said they pre-ferred to get their trainees as able-bodied seamen with-out any prior training in the rate. They said this saved them the trouble of having to break the trainees of bad habits acquired in school.
This reminds me a lot of Dewey's ideas of training vs. education:
"Without such formal education, it is not possible to transmit all the resources and achievements of a complex society. It also opens a way to a kind of experience which would not be accessible to the young, if they were left to pick up their training in informal association with others, since books and the symbols of knowledge are mastered.
But there are conspicuous dangers attendant upon the transition from indirect to formal education. Sharing in actual pursuit, whether directly or vicariously in play, is at least personal and vital. These qualities compensate, in some measure, for the narrowness of available opportunities. Formal instruction, on the contrary, easily becomes remote and dead—abstract and bookish, to use the ordinary words of depreciation. What accumulated knowledge exists in low grade societies is at least put into practice; it is transmuted into character; it exists with the depth of meaning that attaches to its coming within urgent daily interests." (Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1916, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/852/852-h/852-h.htm)
There is a great deal of research showing that rewards and pressure can motivate people to "produce," but creative learning and thinking requires the "space" that play creates. Pressure and rewards can often diminish that space, and thus, squash creative thinking.
Reminds me of Dan Pink's TedTalk: The Puzzle of Motivation
form and structure
I like it when she focuses on what the profession actually does, rather than staking out boundaries between the disciplines. Reminds me of Kirschenbaum's conclusions in What is digital humanities and why are they saying such terrible things about it.
The average person,whether Ph.D. scholar or high school graduate, never no-tices the structure that organizes their information, becausethey are so caught up in absorbing and relating to thecontent. And, in fairness to them, they are not interested inthe structure.Weare interested in the structure
Reminds me of infrastructure studies - how certain features slip into the background.
Currently, the wheel is being reinvented every day onthe information superhighway
Reminds me of Eggers thoughts about the importance of recreating wheels.
I love this quote from the Tao Te Chingof Lao Tzu that brings into focus the paradoxical nature of happiness and meaning and some counterintuitivenotions. In this quote Lao Tzu writes "When man is born he is tender and weak. At deathhe is stiff and hard. All things, as well as the grass and the trees, tender and subtlewhile alive, when dead, withered and dried. Therefore, the tender and the weak are thecompanions of life and the stiff and the hard are companions of death." It's a littlebit paradoxical: weakness and tenderness may be the pathway to life and the Tao and themysterious force of life. And again, challenging us to put aside preconceptions to find happiness.
This really reminds me of the struggle of Rand Al'Thor in book 12-13 of The Wheel of Time; perhaps Robert Jordan was influenced by this, as he mentioned sampling many religions for his writings.
And often you asked me “What is the use of knowing the evil in the world?”
People tend to ask this question a lot when dealing with any form of negativity. This reminds me of how a lot of people would prefer to remain ignorant in order to feel content with their own personal agenda. As long as it is not occurring in front of their eyes or they do not have to experience the situation themselves, it is not relevant to what they continue to deal with personally. There is this fear floating within the air that forces people to stay within their comfort zone and not even bother questioning what may linger on the other side.
big science
Reminds me of Big Data.
support of a fact
facts - reminds me of wikidata's model based around claims
‘Tis this exalted power, whose business lies In nonsense and impossibilities,
This reminds me of the Academy of Lagado in Gulliver's Travels (Gulliver's given a tour where people are seriously studying things that are blatantly ridiculous and pointless).
But John says if I feel so, I shall neglect proper self-control; so I take pains to control myself—before him, at least, and that makes me very tired.
this reminds me of a term called "angel in the house" when i studied british literature and how in this time period women were supposed to have been this angelic example to the husbands as a sign of comfort as he exits the business world back into the domestic sphere.
don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able.
The entire piece but this part especially reminds me of Margaret Atwood's "A Handmaid's tale," where the protagonist, Offred, is dictating her life in a dystopian-male dominated society where she is forbidden to read or write but does it anyway to record her life under an oppressive regime.
So I will let it alone and talk about the house
everything that has led to this line subtly reminds me of "the awakening" by Kate Chopin it is the same tale in a sense, a women clearly suffering from some form of mental anguish but also being forced into a compulsion like "talk about the house" because they aren't allowed to express any of their real concerns. It is quite a sad read up to this point, and it reminds me of Chopin because i had a similar feeling when i read that.
creeping
The narrator repeats the word creeping continually throughout the narrative. This reminds me of Feuds theory of the uncanny. In this case, the uncanny relates to feelings which seem familiar because they have been repressed, therefore the uncanny reflects something which is familiar in our unconscious, but as this feeling is repressed, it produces feelings of uneasiness because we do not understand it. Even in the narrators personal writing, she cannot truly reflect her unconscious desires to be free from the restrictions of being a woman during this time. The only way she can discuss her anxiety is by reflecting it onto the wallpaper, which allows her to delve deep into her unconscious, repressed desires. She feels familiarity in her being a woman and societies expectations which go along with this, such as getting married and having children. But she feels unsure about this as she is not content and happy with the life he has, even though by societies standards she should be happy. Therefore she is constantly feeling 'creepy'.
“If I take this road I am likely to meet some people, but if I take the other road, I am not likely to meet anyone.”
for some reason this line reminds me of "The Road Not Taken"
“If I take this road I am likely to meet some people, but if I take the other road, I am not likely to meet anyone.”
for some reason this line reminds me of "The Road Not Taken"
“If I take this road I am likely to meet some people, but if I take the other road, I am not likely to meet anyone.”
reminds me of the paths of life some have potential while others have less
this reminds me of the peyote story
For the Spirit of the Mountain had taken her to himself
This reminds me of Greek mythology, especially Leda and the Swan, which led to Helen, and then the Trojan War.
It is not uncommon to infer that some sort of evidence, of which we are not aware, ought to or might exist and, if found, would be of particular impor- tance as evidence, as when detectives search, more or less systematically, for clues
Reminds me of Peirce's idea of Abductive Reasoning.
Further, the term “evidence” implies passiveness. Evidence, like information-as-thing, does not do any- thing actively. Human beings do things with it or to it.
Is evidence truly not doing anything? Reminds me of non-human actors in Latour.
I may be a proficient user of mathematics and a skilled driver and unable to teach a child either one
This reminds me of Lee Shulman's (1986) "Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching" (worth a read)
how little things change. I’m guessing a lot of the drama is still the same, it’s just the format is a little differ-ent. It’s just changing the font and changing the background color really.”
this reminds me of life as well from when you were a teen to early-mid 20's; life still happens with drama but it's just the way things are perceived that's different
He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American,
this also reminds me of the popular tendency for people to say "i don't see color" because even as far back as Du Bois it is clear that color is present and one must be able to be seen and felt and still be fully validated in order for people to truly co exist. The idea that some people are colorblind is bogus and really rather racist in its own annoying way.
these diverse and complex cultures and literatures can be made to appear cute, childish, one-dimensional, and boring
reminds me of peter pan...native american stereotypes galore
a small black dog will leap to lick your hand.
This also reminds me of the bible, to some degree. It reminds me of the garden of eden, and the serpent. The dog being the serpent.
little fellow came to him he seemed so famished and he shed such tears that this one also gave him leave to eat.
This reminds me of the little boy who cried wolf and the three bears stories.
But in the increasingly important village the library must broaden its scope and become a true cultural center
Reminds me of the recent push for GLAM thinking.
respect of power–while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame. Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy the dynamo was not so human as some
Also reminiscent of God's power coupled with His gentleness, and the praying.
This section also reminds me of Jesus. First of all the baby against the frame, reminds me of a baby Jesus being held against the Virgin Mary maybe? Then further the dynamo being a symbol of ultimate energy but was "not so human as some." In Christianity, Jesus is the symbol of God's ultimate energy in human form.
may be only a vaguesort of dissatisfaction and may, in fact, be disregarded asthe investigation develops. I
Reminds me of Khulthau's uncertainty principle.
The entire desolate, bleak surroundings of this poem reminds me of T.S Elliot's 'The Waste Land'.
Out of burlap sacks, out of bearing butter, Out of black bean and wet slate bread, Out of the acids of rage, the candor of tar, Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies, They Lion grow.
The text has heavy words with powerful objectives that create an image of an industrial environment. An industrial place creates an image of weariness where people are working hard and doing their jobs - whether to provide for their families or make a living. And an industrial environment can be dark and smog-like due to chemicals in the area or the vehicles, etc. This environment is a sense of negativity and loss of hope. And for whatever reason, this "Lion" grows off this negativity and loss of hope.
"Lion" is capitalized. When something is capitalized it is either a name or pertaining to a god. In a biblical perspective, this reminds me of the "Lion of Judah," who in the Holy Bible in Revelation 5:5, is described as Jesus Christ.
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reminds me of how i have to purposely mispronounce asian names bc my friends tell me im pronouncing accurate chinese names wrong
The thing is: I quit, but no one else did. They continued to weave this great net, and catch everyone in it.
The retrospective tone of this article reminds me of Ethan Zuckerman's "The Internet's Original Sin from the Atlantic.
And the whole "caught in the net" thing of course reminds me of:
learning to decode was not “decontextualized.” It was not, in fact, separated from meaningful and value-laden action
This is reminds me of a previous reading in which the author claimed that students had greater comprehension with real world texts (news papers, brochures, signs). If students understand the purpose for reading, it can help them comprehend and act as a motivator.
Learners observe masters at work. Masters model behavior (e.g. cooking a particular type of meal) accompanied by talk that helps learners know what to pay attention to. Learners collaborate in their initial efforts with the masters, who do most of the work and scaffold the learners’ efforts. Texts or other artifacts (e.g. recipes, cookbooks) that carry useful information, though usually of the sort supplied “on demand” or “just in time” when needed, are often made available.
This reminds me of guided reading and anchor charts
The process involves “masters” (adults, more masterful peers) creating an environment rich in support for learners.
Reminds me of Vygotsky: scaffolding, ZPD, social-learning
Emergent technologies provide different models and structures to support learning. They disrupt the notion that learning should be controlled by educators and educational institutions as information and “knowledgeable others” are readily available on online networks through the press of a button for anyone interested in expanding his or her horizon.
This reminds me of The New London Group's Multiliteracies manifesto in which they argue that changing technology and visible diverse communities requires a new approach to literacy education. We have to train students to be adapters to diverse social and learning contexts. Seems that MOOCS is one way to make this possible.
Such an analysis would presumably result in pedagogical techniquesbased on an understanding of the physiological and environmental underpinningsof human behavior (Glaser, 1978)
Reminds me of Maslow
In this these six previous tools work together to develop a synthesis greater than the sum of its parts.
Extend: Synthesis is referred to as being "greater than the sum of its part", which reminds me of the TPACK framework and the sweet spot (the point where all three parts are synthesized). All the other tools described (perceiving, patterning, abstracting, embodied thinking, modeling, and deep play can be directly linked to one or more parts of the TPACK framework and can be used as teaching strategies to help educators better understand how to use TPACK in their own areas.
When innovative people play with things, or concepts, or processes, they may open doors to new ways of thinking via unexpected breakthroughs.
Connection: This reminds me of the Maker Movement which allows the creation of new concepts and ideas by "thinking out of the box".
technologies become obsolete as quickly as they arrive.
✔ Reminds me of Words Onscreen and whether or not it will be relevant in five years.
they are shocked by the rages of logic and the natural world in a way that those of us who were born and bred to understand cause and effect can never be.
Reminds me of the person in an affluent neighborhood who tells the newsperson reporting on a murder or robbery, "This doesn't happen here...it's a good neighborhood!" I'm always appalled at the implication - that violent crime is somehow okay in other, "bad" neighborhoods. I think, though, one of the underlying messages of Coates's piece is that this comment is white privilege distilled: the belief that tragedy and suffering is intended for other people. I think, perhaps - while I am right to deplore and call attention to the harmful implications of the person on the news - I need to remember the advice of Matthew 7:3, that is, not to ignore the log in my own eye while focusing on the speck in another's.
Would it not be better, then, if our bodies were civilized, improved, and put to some legitimate Christian use?
Reminds me of the destruction of the indigenous people of the Americas. Pope Francis recently apologize for the church's crimes but also promotes the canonization of Junipero Serra, who was the architect of the enslavement of indigenous people in California.
My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that is exactly what was happening all around us.
This reminds me of the incident during the Baltimore Uprising in April where Toya Graham beats her son. Stacey Patton wrote about this:
The kind of violent discipline Graham unleashed on her son did not originate with her, or with my adoptive mother who publicly beat me when I was a child, or with the legions of black parents who equate pain with protection and love. The beatings originated with white supremacy, a history of cultural and physical violence that devalues black life at every turn. From slavery through Jim Crow, from the school-to-prison pipeline, the innocence and protection of black children has always been a dream deferred. http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/29/why-is-america-celebrating-the-beating-of-a-black-child/
Memorial Day
Again, this reminds me of the connection that Jeremy made to Frederick Douglass's 1841 speech about the 4th of July.
As inherent in several trends in this report, including the shift to students as creators, learners are being given more autonomy over how they approach projects and subject matter.
This reminds me of the UDL class I had taken as part of the special education program at MSU. It focused on giving students choice in learning and giving them multiple ways to access the information.
This reminds me of how when I was young I would try and read in class without making any mistakes.
Three of the best people I’ve ever worked with…
Thanks again for this Doug and for giving me the excuse to use hypothes.is in anger for the first time.
I've never been bitten by the blogging bug but can imagine myself sprinkling notes/snipperts/snarks all over the web.
Reminds me of that Steven Wright gag:
"I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it..."
The basic need is to be charmed by something with other people and take part in something jointly, yet feeling like an independent individual. Research is not the right way to do
The basic human need of belonging appears to be met without commitment? Reminds me of Sherri Turkle:
We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. We turn to technology to help us feel connected in ways we can comfortably control.
If this is the intent of coming together online then research and theory has little place in such frames of reference. What matters is that the group validates me and tells me I belong to something special and durable?
want to share things. That is why we need phenomena to connect us with certain people.
We want to share and need phenomena to connect. This reminds me of Jim Groom's concept of a pedagogy of triggering events. He believes these special events promote online presence when teaching online.
To look at the way we look at disability, this essay proposes a taxonomy of four primary visual rhetorics of disability: the wondrous, the sentimental, the exotic, and the realistic
Reminds me of the medieval texts like "wonders of the east" where "otherness" is mystified and monstrous.
giant synaesthetic experience mobilizing sight, sounds, smells and touch in order to gain a full and complete appreciation of the spectacle
Reminds me of an article by J.G. Harris The Smell of Macbeth where he writes about use of stage direction and specific odors that complemented different scenes--sulfury smells of burnt rosin powder to suggest hell. Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2007, pp. 465-486 (Article)
Our purpose is to re - appropriate (‘detonate’), ‘occupy’, these moments of space - time through ‘a new pedagogy of space and time’, which can be characterised as the production of critical knowledge in everyday life.
This reminds me of Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zone, but from a different angle. Instead of occupying it centers on removing authority from. http://hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html
warns us against equating changes in scientific understanding of a sense such as smell, what is called “osmology,” with experiential transformations. Attending to the history of smell, he tells us, is also valuable in undermining simple binary oppositions between boundaried individuals and their englobing environ- ment, the basis of Cartesian subject/object dualisms. Instead, it helps situate us in a more fluid, immersive context, where such stark oppositions are understood as themselves contingent rather than necessary
This reminds me of our Monday discussion of Spinoza re: how expanded "scientific understanding" changes (or doesn't change) sensory experiences.
our lack of hardwired patterns of behavior
This passage reminds me of Lyotard's introduction to The Inhuman, and this Onion article.
here is then a way in which things are affected by their like and a way in which they are affected by their unlike, as we said. 5 3
This might be something to think through further. Reminds me a bit of Spinoza, but I can't quite articulate it.
Does the listener remember the smell of new-mown hay at daybreak? Can he recapture the fragrance of the lilac hedge past which he trudged when as a youngster he attended grade school
Common connection between smell and memory - reminds me of Rachel Herz's work on cognition and olfaction.
Conditions of emergence arc one with becoming.
Reminds me of Stuart Kauffman's notion of "order for free" and autopoesis of self-organizing systems. Interesting.
Critical thinking disavows its own inventiveness as much as possible.
This passage reminds me of Eve Sedgwick's essay on reparative reading.
We arc looking at only one dimension of reality
This argument reminds me of Miegakure, a four-dimensional game I can't understand but enjoy trying to.
Infrastructure for 100 years
Reminds me of Yvon Chouinard and Patagonia
The orator has little use for an imaginative world three inches in diameter. His world must be twenty feet in diameter and must include every atom of his own
This talk about "diameter" reminds me of Burke's notions of "circumference."
the portfolio can be a structure to help an individual express meaning. But its quality depends up what the individual does with it.
This would suggest that a portfolio is a means of self-expression. Students should be encouraged to show who they truly are through a portfolio.
So I was just looking at a folder of work that a seventh grader wants to use in her portfolio. She came to me asking me to "approve" of the work. "Is this good enough for my portfolio in Independent Reading?"
It wasn't easy to get her to understand that I wasn't going to give approval or disapproval, and instead I asked her in as many was as I could think of to show me how the work show us something important about her ability to "have conversations online" (as our competency states) about her reading. Or more generally, I said, "Okay, so here are three responses to short stories that you have first drafts of. You do need to finish them, and as you do, think about what you want these to show about your unique, thoughtful ways of responding to literature."
We have work to do. But Mary Diez's metaphor here reminds me of how important it is to return the power of the portfolio to the student. It's not my approval of the work that matters, it's the student's ability to recognize and articulate her own sense of why this work matters, how it shows something important about herself.
Fabulous tool and practice. Good for discussion in the DHSI Digital Indigeneity course in June. Reminds me of early work First Nations groups did with Google Maps in support of Treaty Land Entitlement claims.
have overborne their continents
I love the juxtapositions of words here. I love the notion that a river could forcefully move a continent. And that this "movement" could have both emotional and physical registers. Reminds me of the Carole King lyrics:
I feel the earth move under my feet<br> I feel the sky tumbling down, tumbling down<br> I feel my heart start to trembling<br> Whenever you're around
Hirschorn and the rest of the show’s staff are gathered in the artificial twilight of a VH1 editing room,
Reminds me of the opening of William Gibson's Neuromancer:
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.
CP
in the CI context, the abbreviation CP reminds me strongly of a Capture Probability (or Capture Percentage) of a single CI (see Cumming & Maillardet, 2006). Perhaps better not to abbreviate?
and that perhaps we could try to remind our elected officials that one never knows which languages might become strategic tomorrow.
Not to make light, but this reminds me of how Max Fisher viciously destroys and then subsequently saves the Latin program at Rushmore:
There were actual politics at stake, and it would’ve been an ridiculously dangerous move to substitute identity affinities for political analysis.
Yes!!! Reminds me of this quote from Graeber's "Democracy Project": https://instagram.com/p/tjcYY9Og32/?taken-by=tilgovi
aspire to and feedback loops t
Reminds me of Gee's Cycle of Reflective Inquiry
While many have written on this topic (and I wrote a book on it), few have shown the implications of overpersonalization as well as Gilad Lotan did in this recent analysis of media consumption in Israel and Palestine, where he describes the view participants in the current Gaza war have of the conflict as “personalized propaganda.”
Not original, but it bears repeating. It reminds me of Walter Lippmann's argument of yore that the 20thC world has gotten too complex and interconnected for a given citizen to comprehend it. So he wants there to be a technocratic elite that digests the world for the rest of us. Zuckerman points out how the 21stC is doubling down on the fragmentation, instead, creating strange individualized filters to create a (false) sense of order that is idiosyncratic to each consumer of media.
Implications of helping reader who want to share annotations they have read
This reminds me of the retweet feature.
Implications of helping reader who want to share annotations they have read
This reminds me of the retweet feature.
The most effective way people can change a story is to view it through any of three new lenses, which are all alternatives to seeing the world from the victim perspective. With the reverse lens, for example, people ask themselves, “What would the other person in this conflict say and in what ways might that be true?” With the long lens they ask, “How will I most likely view this situation in six months?” With the wide lens they ask themselves, “Regardless of the outcome of this issue, how can I grow and learn from it?” Each of these lenses can help people intentionally cultivate more positive emotions.
beautiful way to look at things. reminds me of the 10-10-10 strategy.
big, instantaneous shift in the institutional structure would be difficult and risky, at least in the near term
Reminds me of how controversial the shift to the Common Core is, and that doesn't come close to the kinds of structural change involved in switching to a mixed model.
I can still remember to this day, some twenty years later, that feeling of helpless suspension on the monkey bars. It’s the same feeling I get whenever I take on a new endeavor that I am unsure of.
I think we all get this feeling from time to time, and yet we learn more about ourselves and the world by pushing up against limits and fears. I think. I may have blanked on that. Your story reminds me a similar story, but mine involved a waterfall in upper Maine, where I finally climbed to the top and froze ... and remained frozen in place (I couldn't even find the mindset to climb down the way I climbed up). Finally, after close to 30 minutes (with friends yelling at me), I jumped. Once. I jumped once. But I jumped.
she made the mistake
Reminds me of Taylor Mali: What Teachers Make. Or you can just listen to the relevant snippet here: Let's Be Honest
Steven Pinker thinks about writing. As a linguist, he thinks about writing.
Interesting use of emphasis by the writer here, writing about someone writing about writing. This simple observation reminds me of the complexity of translating our written text, as we hear it in our heads, to someone else reading, outside of the context of what we write. I wonder if Pinker ever thinks about this ... probably
Your idea may not be for us, but if you believe in it, others will too. Good luck!
I like this ending for the page, it seems in the spirit of the fellowship. And reminds me of Seth Godin's post "What 'no' means" - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2013/11/what-no-means.html
The modern increased facilities of transportation have brought distant markets within reach of the professional hunter, and thereby given a new impulse to his destructive propensities. Not only do all Great Britain and Ireland contribute to the supply of game for the British capital, but the canvas-back duck of the Potomac, and even the prairie hen from the basin of the Mississippi, may be found at the stalls of the London poulterer.
Nice! Collapsing the notion of the local, tying species to the tastes of distant consumers. Ex. Parisian fashion trends and the beaver pelt cap. Reminds me of William Cronon's Chicago hinterlands in Nature's Metropolis (1991).
Thus a f
This tension reminds me of Friedman's consideration of "will." Part of the sign of the credible threat was the clear willingness to use it when pressed, which led to the "rationally irrational" stances that occurred within deterrence exchanges. So the tension between sign and peaceful intentions is further complicated by the tension between credibility and will.
and then suspect that man is sustained in the indifference of his ignorance by that which is pitiless, greedy, insatiable, and murderous-as if hanging in dreams on the back of a tiger.
Small, fragile, and tenuously suspended and preserved, encased in ignorance, by the same substance, ego, source of good and ill. It reminds me of the fable of a woman hanging from a cliff by a thin reed, tigers above and tigers below, and spying a ripe strawberry plucks and savors its sweetness, as a parable for life.
They are deeply immersed in illusions and in dream images; their eyes merely glide over the surface of things and see "forms."
This reminds me of Plato, and illusion of what is real but not the real knowledge.
not natural ability, but care, that was wanting
Here he differs from our earlier readings. Suggests genius is not a part of us but a product. It reminds me of Gladwell's book Outliers.
In 2006, out of avoiding work he should have been doing for his philosophy degree, Foddy began teaching himself how to program and design, which led to his first game, Too Many Ninjas.
BFoddy is human too! Reminds me a lot of my undergrad years.
The metrical form destroys the hearer's trust by its artificial appearance, and at the same time it diverts his attention
Interesting. This reminds me of a previous comment I had made on Gorgias' style in Econium of Helen. I made mention that his word choice had aroused suspicion. I wonder also if it was 'metrical', lending to its artificial appearance.
For all advice to do things or not to do them is concerned with happiness and with the things that make for or against it; whatever creates or increases happiness or some part of happiness, we ought to do; whatever destroys or hampers happiness, or gives rise to its opposite, we ought not to do.
This reminds me of Socrates in Plato's "Gorgias." Except that he advised people to only partake in things that make them happy because they are good or beneficial and not to partake in things good/beneficial because they make the person happy (or something along those lines).
Moreover, (2) before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction, and there are people whom one cannot instruct. Here, then, we must use, as our modes of persuasion and argument, notions possessed by everybody, as we observed in the Topics when dealing with the way to handle a popular audience.
Reminds of me Isocrates in a strange way. He spoke against the Sophists in that they didn't have a complete knowledge of things teachable. Yet even with a complete knowledge there still isn't a way to reach everyone in your audience. Persuasion without disclosure of complete knowledge seems to win out.
that while those who are thought to be adept in court procedure are tolerated only for the day when they are engaged in the trial, the devotees of philosophy are honored and held in high esteem in every society and at all times; that, furthermore, while the former come to be despised and decried as soon as they are seen two or three times in court, the latter are admired more and more as they become better and more widely known; and, finally, that while clever pleaders are sadly unequal to the higher eloquence, the exponents of the latter could, if they so desired, easily master also the oratory of the court
This reminds me of "MC versus rapper". "An MC is a representative of Hip-Hop culture. A Rapper is a representative of corporate interests. An MC can be a rapper, but a rapper will never be an MC." -KRS ONE
Most men see in such studies nothing but empty talk and hair-splitting; for none of these disciplines has any useful application either to private or to public affairs; nay, they are not even remembered for any length of time after they are learned because they do not attend us through life nor do they lend aid in what we do, but are wholly divorced from our necessities.
This reminds me of how underpaid and under-appreciated teachers are. I realize they are completely different situations (and I believe teaching is one of the most important professions!), but the language is similar to the debate about teachers. Everyone agrees they are important, but it's difficult to get good teachers because of the terrible pay. The difference here of course is that many people decry the Sophists as not important. But what the people say about Sophists feels like how teachers are actually treated in our educational system.
But these professors have gone so far in their lack of scruple that they attempt to persuade our young men that if they will only study under them they will know what to do in life and through this knowledge will become happy and prosperous.
Reminds me of the American Dream....
For will any one ever acknowledge that he does not know, or cannot teach, the nature of justice?
Reminds me of Section VI in Dissoi Logoi.
In one of the ads it says "a lusty likely health Mulatto woman", I find it interesting that the author of that ad just had to include the word "lusty". It reminds me of the eroticization that we talked about with Native American women. I wonder how adding the quality of "lusty" would affect who would purchase this slave and if they would use her sexually
everything done at the right time is seemly and everything done at the wrong time is disgraceful
This reminds me of the Old Testament: "To every thing there is a season... A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up."
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This entire section arguing for the relativism of good and bad (and most of the entire article) reminds me of sophist philosophies.
To the Thessalians it is seemly for a man to select horses and mules from a herd himself and train them, and also to take one of the cattle and slaughter, skin and cut it up himself, but in Sicily these tasks are disgraceful and the work of slaves. (12) To the Macedonians it appears to be seemly for young girls, before they are married, to fall in love and to have intercourse with a man, but when a girl is married it is a disgrace. (As far as the Greeks are concerned it is disgraceful at either time.) (13) To the Thracians it is an ornament for young girls to be tattooed but with others tattoo-marks are a punishment for those who do wrong. And the Scythians think it seemly that who (ever) kills a man should scalp him and wear the scalp on his horse's bridle, and, having gilded the skull (or) lined it with silver, should drink from it and make a libation to the gods. Among the Greeks, no one would be willing to enter the same house as a man who had behaved like that. (14) The Massagetes cut up their parents and eat them, and they think that to be buried in their children is the most beautiful grave imaginable, but in Greece, if anyone did such a thing, he would be driven out of the country and would die an ignominious death for having committed such disgraceful and terrible deeds
Reminds me of the series "Taboo." Acceptability and the norm vary from culture to culture. This hits on the earlier point of "One man's trash is another man's treasure." One man's gift piano is another horse's mouth."