- Dec 2017
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www.aarondconley.com www.aarondconley.com
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Our individual acts, while helpful, will not provide enough moral oomph to unhinge and dismantle the tremendously entrenched force of the fantastic hegemonic imagination.
This quote is powerful because although it crushes some hope saying that our individual acts alone are not enough, it calls out the importance of unity. Strength in numbers is a very real and powerful idea and i believe that any problem can be solved when we unify and work towards a common goal to help make our world better.
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All that we really achieve with many postmodern categories is the production of contracts such as “center” and “periphery” that reveal our vexing fixation on making a complex world simplistic and on the messiness of diversity neat and pristine when it is really a mash pit of realities.
I love the meaning behind this quote and how it calls out reality and our world for trying to camouflage itself for something it is not. In our world today it is sad to see everyone dancing around problems like racism and throw it in the back seat like it is not still going on. Ignoring a problem does not solve it, it simply puts it aside for it to later implode.
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www.gutenberg.org www.gutenberg.org
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Psychologists should bethink themselves before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to DISCHARGE its strength—life itself is WILL TO POWER; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent RESULTS thereof. In short, here, as everywhere else, let us beware of SUPERFLUOUS teleological principles!—one of which is the instinct of self-preservation (we owe it to Spinoza's inconsistency). It is thus, in effect, that method ordains, which must be essentially economy of principles.
I found this quote meaningful because it states how psychologists should reflect on themselves before trying to project their ideas or thoughts onto others. I think this is powerful because today many people try to give advice and criticize others before looking in the mirror and practicing what they preach.
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- Oct 2017
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mjrizza.com mjrizza.com
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Knowledge is more than a set of denotative statements, but also competence (know-how), “knowing how to live,” “how to listen,” etc., and it conforms to consensus of a social circle of “knowers.”
Knowledge is more than just a set of rules or guidelines that we are taught to believe knowledge is what helps us grow and succeed in living and problem solving.
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