aeon web write ups feel like an attempt to be super-informative which just .. misses. They always seem to riff on things making a HUGE DEAL about THIS ONE THING which the authors feel WE ALL MISSED and I feel like I am watching a 1960s movie of stoned people.. grooving on the pattern the coffee cup makes on their hand, man.. its all one hole man.. one hole, the hole is not the cup, the hole is .. the HANDLE..
is it just me? Am I really too "thick" for what aeon is trying to say?
I hate this. I hate being critical of people doing long reads, but I think of the family of long reads, Aeon is about the worst example.
Jarrod Lanier. Jarod Diamond. Ray Kurzeweil. Rent-a-quote new-age theorists trying to be a psychopomp for the modern age, or philosophers but as self-taught, auto-didact philosophers they didn't learn how to do it very well.. And it shows.
The two line take-away is: care less about material things. Gee.. nobody said that before, 2000+ years ago. Did they?
(I should speak. I can't write for toffee either, but the point is I don't put it out there on Aeon)
is it just me? Am I really too "thick" for what aeon is trying to say?
I hate this. I hate being critical of people doing long reads, but I think of the family of long reads, Aeon is about the worst example.
Jarrod Lanier. Jarod Diamond. Ray Kurzeweil. Rent-a-quote new-age theorists trying to be a psychopomp for the modern age, or philosophers but as self-taught, auto-didact philosophers they didn't learn how to do it very well.. And it shows.
The two line take-away is: care less about material things. Gee.. nobody said that before, 2000+ years ago. Did they?
(I should speak. I can't write for toffee either, but the point is I don't put it out there on Aeon)