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The Meaning of Life Part 1: Romanticism
In the offhand way philosophy professors drop bombs, my philosophy professor this summer casually said that in our society, the commonly accepted meaning of life is “self realization.” Damn, I thought. This was the question I’d asked my mother when I was five and never gotten an answer to. And my professor was so laid…
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In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on. Robert Frost
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On Flirtatious Hollowness in Pop Culture
This guy I know from college is on MTV’s The Real World, so I’ve been watching the show. The show touches on a bunch of subjects: there’s plot lines on homophobia, hooking up with random people in clubs while drunk, looking pretty and coming out as gay. If you think about the show (which I unfortunately…
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-I don’t even know what that means! -No one knows what it means, but it’s provocative. It get’s the people going! Kanye West + Jay-Z
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The Meaning of Life Part 2: Niebuhr
The best book I read in college was the Irony of American History by Reinhold Niebuhr. The book is most apparently about American politics. Niebuhr argues that America should be aware of its fundamental limitations and thus engage in a humble, though assertive, foreign policy. But I was most interested in the book’s theological underpinnings.…
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The National Museum of the American Indian
Another day, another museum. After my experience yesterday in the National Gallery, I had quite a different experience today on the Mall. I went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I came to the museum skeptical. I took a class this summer on Native Americans that made me really disillusioned with the way…
George Altshuler 