“Escribió un drama: dijeron que se creía Shakespeare; escribió una novela: dijeron que se creía Proust; escribió un cuento: dijeron que se creía Chejov; escribió una carta: dijeron que se creía Lord Chesterfield; escribió un diario: dijeron que se creía Pavese; escribió una despedida: dijeron que se creía Cervantes; dejó de escribir: dijeron que se creía Rimbaud; escribió un epitafio: dijeron que se creía difunto”
Augusto Monterroso
Hemos consolidado una brillantez mediocre que lo inunda todo. Y tiene mucho éxito y mucha relevancia social
Alberto Corazón
Lo característico del momento es que el alma vulgar sabiéndose vulgar tiene el denuedo de afirmar el derecho a la vulgaridad y lo impone dondequiera. Vivimos en un tiempo que se siente fabulosamente capaz de realizar pero que no sabe qué realizar. Domina todas las cosas pero no es dueño de sí mismo. Se siente perdido en la propia abundancia…Un mundo sobrado de posibilidades produce graves deformaciones… Por ejemplo: la propensión a hacer ocupación central de la vida los juegos y los deportes; el cultivo de su cuerpo – régimen higiénico y atención a la belleza del traje… divertirse con el intelectual pero en el fondo no estimarlo…
Ortega y Gasset
“Bertie… held that in fact human affairs were carried on after a most irrational fashion, but that the remedy was quite simple and easy, since all we had to do was to carry them on rationally.”
Opinión de J. M. Keynes sobre Bertrand Russell
We lose – because we win -
Gamblers – recollecting which -
Toss their dices again!
By such and such an offering
To Mr So and So -
The web of life is woven -
So martyrs albums show!
E. Dickinson
Umberto Eco decía que nunca firmaría un manifiesto en contra o a favor de algo si todo el mundo está igualmente a favor o en contra. Soy incapaz de adherirme, a pesar de compartirlo, al enésimo clamor contra la corrupción repetido desde todas partes una y otra vez, al menos en España. Tanto las investigaciones científicas (en este video el profesor Dan Ariely habla sobre el engaño en la sociedad y muestra como unos pocos roban mucho – esto suele atraer a los periódicos – pero muchos roban un poco, lo cual la prensa raramente lo muestra) como las estadísticas (hace poco se encontró que más de treinta mil personas estaban cobrando ayudas de asistencia a pesar de que el familiar había fallecido; una inspección de trabajo encontró un cuarenta por ciento de fraude en una muestra de decenas de miles de casos, los empresarios de la distribución cifran en cientos de millones las pérdidas por robos de los propios empleados…) y mi experiencia personal (no creo ser el único que ha visto a su alrededor, entre familia y amigos, pequeños fraudes y engaños a la seguridad social, a las compañías de seguro, a su empresa…) dicen todas una misma cosa: La corrupción pública que declinan los periódicos diariamente es un problema en esta sociedad pero el problema real, con mucha diferencia, es la corrupción nuestra de cada día. Miles de millones se pierden anualmente por culpa de ella pero… ¿quién se atreve a decir que los mayores ladrones son la gente normal y corriente?.
لمن أصابه الزهايمر أو فقد الذاكرة الفلسطينيون يقاومون احتلال أرضهم والصهاينه هم المحتلون For anyone who has been struck by Alzheimers or memory loss, the Palestinians are resisting the occupation of their lands and the Zionists are the occupiers
نحن مستعدون السماع كل وجهات النظر المعارضة لكن أنيصبح لكل شخص إذاعةوتلفزيون ويقول ما يشاء فهذه فوض وليست حريات We are prepared to listen to all opposing points of view but for every person to have their own radio and television program and say whatever he wants [can we call it "internet"?], well that is chaos and not freedom
لماذا يعاقبنا الله نحن المسلمين عندما نقترف الذنوب في حين يتساهل مع الأمريكيين
Why is God punishing us, the Muslims, when we commit sins while he is going easy on the Americans?
Sample sentences from the book “A Frequency Dictionary of Arabic” by Tim Buckwalter and Dilworth Parkinson
Short clip from the film “Leben” by Harun Farocki (click on the arrow and watch the background video) It is a prejudice but one feels that things like this are only possible in a country like Germany. You can see many more in that film?, documentary?…
“Roger. Among the large headlines concerning Apollo this morning, there’s
one asking that you watch for a lovely girl with a big rabbit. An ancient legend
says a beautiful Chinese girl called Chang-o has been living there for 4000 years.
It seems she was banished to the Moon because she stole the pill of immortality from
her husband. You might also look for her companion, a large Chinese rabbit,
who is easy to spot since he is always standing on his hind feet in the shade of
a cinnamon tree. The name of the rabbit is not reported”
air to ground voice transcription of Apollo 11 mission
“…ground personnel frequently annotated in-flight documentation with messages,cartoons, jokes
and their signatures… Accompanying the cartoons, though,
were black-and-white reproductions of Playboy magazine photographs of nude
women… The images bear smutty captions playing upon the scientific activities
astronauts were assigned to complete while on the lunar surface”
Checklist: The secret life of Apollo’s fourth crew member; Matthew H.
दूरेण ह्यवरं कर्म बुद्धियोगाद्धनञ्जय।
बुद्धौ शरणमन्विच्छ कृपणाः फलहेतवः।।2.49।।
Action is inferior by far
to the yoga of wisdom, Arjuna
Seek refuge in wisdom!
Despicable are those whose motives are based on the fruit of action
Bhagavad-Gita 2, 49; translated by Winthrop sargeant
“Reconocer algo como hermoso convierte en feas otras cosas. Y cuando descubrimos la bondad ponemos tambien de relieve la maldad. Ser y no ser se apoyan uno en otro. dificil y facil se crean mutuamente largo y corto son interdependientes alto y bajo se definen el uno al otrs y todo antes genera necesariamente un despues
por ello el maestro actua sin decir nada y enseña sin abrir siquiera la boca
Fragmento del Tao Te Ching “extraído” por Alan Watts
carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
Horace
(Be wise, have a tranquil and peaceful life, enjoy the pleasures of life, nothing is what looks like… Humanity has repeated the same messages over and over again during thousands of years but, who listens to it?)
“Investments that are denominated in a given currency include money-market funds, bonds, mortgages, bank deposits, and other instruments. Most of these currency-based investments are thought of as “safe.” In truth they are among the most dangerous of assets. Over the past century these instruments have destroyed the purchasing power of investors in many countries, even as these holders continued to receive timely payments of interest and principal. This ugly result, moreover, will forever recur. Governments determine the ultimate value of money, and systemic forces will sometimes cause them to gravitate to policies that produce inflation. From time to time such policies spin out of control.”
Warren Buffett
“The transition from the world in which money is valuable because it is valuable to the one in which money is valuable because it is money could happen only because centuries of experience had established confidence that such money would be accepted. There are two commodities – paper money and gold – whose price permanently exceeds fundamental value…The writer Mark Boyle wrote a book describing a year lived without money. His was not a lifestyle I would enjoy. But the need to tip the bellboy is now the only obstacle to a life of luxury lived without cash.”
Financial times article
“In a study published last year titled “Life at Home in the Twenty-First Century,” researchers at U.C.L.A. observed 32 middle-class Los Angeles families and found that all of the mothers’ stress hormones spiked during the time they spent dealing with their belongings. Seventy-five percent of the families involved in the study couldn’t park their cars in their garages because they were too jammed with things. Apparently our supersize homes don’t provide space enough for all our possessions, as is evidenced by our country’s $22 billion personal storage industry.
New York Times article
“sell dreams, not products”
Carmine Gallo
書物：各分野で定評のある、または定評を得ようとしている作者が、個人の書き手としての社会的評価を賭けて出版。?責任の所在が個人Books: Writers who already have some reputation bet on publishing their books in order to win social reputation. The Responsibility is individual.
ネット：書かれていることが特定の個人がものだという観念を弱め、知識は「みんな」で作るものだという発想を強める。?責任が集合的に共有化Internet: The idea of an individual piece of writing published for the pubic is weak. It is thought that knowledge belongs to everyone and responsibility is shared collectively.
知識：ばらばらな情報やデータの集まりではなく、様々な概念の内容や事象の記述が相互に結びつき、全体として体系をなしている状態（知恵の樹）Knowledge: This is not the scattered collection of information and data. It refers to the mutual combination or synthesizing of the contents of different concepts and descriptions of phenomena so that in the end everything becomes a system. (The tree of knowledge)
世界中のアマチュアが、専門家顔負けの情報を手にする時代だからこそ…相互に結びつけ、体系的な理解をしていくことが大切。新しい知は、過去の知との葛藤の中から生まれ、日々の思考の積み重ねの中で作り変えられていく。未来のインターネットでは、いかに過去の知識との対話を媒介し、新たな理解の樅組作りを可能にしていくかが問われてくる
Nowadays amateurs throughout the world have access to information that could put an expert to shame… what is important is to be able to understand systematically how they are tied together. New knowledge is born from conflict with past knowledge and the changes produced by the the daily accumulation of thinking. Will the future internet become a medium to make possible a dialogue with the knowledge of the past and establishing a new comprehension framework?
Global Focus on Knowledge Lecture Series; University of Tokyo