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  1. German SPD politician Rolf Mützenich has called for a much stronger debate regarding new diplomatic disarmament initiatives, arguing that Europe must react to U... news.osna.fm/?p=44275 | #news #ambivalence #amid #arms #calls

  2. German SPD politician Rolf Mützenich has called for a much stronger debate regarding new diplomatic disarmament initiatives, arguing that Europe must react to U... news.osna.fm/?p=44275 | #news #ambivalence #amid #arms #calls

  3. German SPD politician Rolf Mützenich has called for a much stronger debate regarding new diplomatic disarmament initiatives, arguing that Europe must react to U... news.osna.fm/?p=44275 | #news #ambivalence #amid #arms #calls

  4. German SPD politician Rolf Mützenich has called for a much stronger debate regarding new diplomatic disarmament initiatives, arguing that Europe must react to U... news.osna.fm/?p=44275 | #news #ambivalence #amid #arms #calls

  5. I'd like a miracle please. I'd like someone really wonderful (Francesca Albanese? Bernie Sanders?) to be made omnipotent for a goundhog day style eternity until everything's fixed.

    The UN gets teeth and somehow also proportional representation for all citizens meaning Russia, the US the UK etc lose their veto powers.

    Trump, Putin, NutterYahoo and several others find themselves on a chain gang with itching powder in their underwear.

    Haiti gets the help it needs.

    Ukraine & the now Putin-free Russia call it quits.

    Israel has their weapons removed. Gaza gets rebuilt for Palestinians.

    Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar etc. etc. sort their shit out.

    Nuclear weapons turn into festering pizza.

    Humans realise that we live in a time of plenty and wealth isn't measured in money nor is it something to be hoarded.

    Maybe then I'll stop wandering around listlessly failing to get anything done.

    #Dreams #Ambivalence #Utopia

  6. I'd like a miracle please. I'd like someone really wonderful (Francesca Albanese? Bernie Sanders?) to be made omnipotent for a goundhog day style eternity until everything's fixed.

    The UN gets teeth and somehow also proportional representation for all citizens meaning Russia, the US the UK etc lose their veto powers.

    Trump, Putin, NutterYahoo and several others find themselves on a chain gang with itching powder in their underwear.

    Haiti gets the help it needs.

    Ukraine & the now Putin-free Russia call it quits.

    Israel has their weapons removed. Gaza gets rebuilt for Palestinians.

    Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar etc. etc. sort their shit out.

    Nuclear weapons turn into festering pizza.

    Humans realise that we live in a time of plenty and wealth isn't measured in money nor is it something to be hoarded.

    Maybe then I'll stop wandering around listlessly failing to get anything done.

    #Dreams #Ambivalence #Utopia

  7. I'd like a miracle please. I'd like someone really wonderful (Francesca Albanese? Bernie Sanders?) to be made omnipotent for a goundhog day style eternity until everything's fixed.

    The UN gets teeth and somehow also proportional representation for all citizens meaning Russia, the US the UK etc lose their veto powers.

    Trump, Putin, NutterYahoo and several others find themselves on a chain gang with itching powder in their underwear.

    Haiti gets the help it needs.

    Ukraine & the now Putin-free Russia call it quits.

    Israel has their weapons removed. Gaza gets rebuilt for Palestinians.

    Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar etc. etc. sort their shit out.

    Nuclear weapons turn into festering pizza.

    Humans realise that we live in a time of plenty and wealth isn't measured in money nor is it something to be hoarded.

    Maybe then I'll stop wandering around listlessly failing to get anything done.

    #Dreams #Ambivalence #Utopia

  8. I'd like a miracle please. I'd like someone really wonderful (Francesca Albanese? Bernie Sanders?) to be made omnipotent for a goundhog day style eternity until everything's fixed.

    The UN gets teeth and somehow also proportional representation for all citizens meaning Russia, the US the UK etc lose their veto powers.

    Trump, Putin, NutterYahoo and several others find themselves on a chain gang with itching powder in their underwear.

    Haiti gets the help it needs.

    Ukraine & the now Putin-free Russia call it quits.

    Israel has their weapons removed. Gaza gets rebuilt for Palestinians.

    Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar etc. etc. sort their shit out.

    Nuclear weapons turn into festering pizza.

    Humans realise that we live in a time of plenty and wealth isn't measured in money nor is it something to be hoarded.

    Maybe then I'll stop wandering around listlessly failing to get anything done.

    #Dreams #Ambivalence #Utopia

  9. I'd like a miracle please. I'd like someone really wonderful (Francesca Albanese? Bernie Sanders?) to be made omnipotent for a goundhog day style eternity until everything's fixed.

    The UN gets teeth and somehow also proportional representation for all citizens meaning Russia, the US the UK etc lose their veto powers.

    Trump, Putin, NutterYahoo and several others find themselves on a chain gang with itching powder in their underwear.

    Haiti gets the help it needs.

    Ukraine & the now Putin-free Russia call it quits.

    Israel has their weapons removed. Gaza gets rebuilt for Palestinians.

    Yemen, Sudan, Myanmar etc. etc. sort their shit out.

    Nuclear weapons turn into festering pizza.

    Humans realise that we live in a time of plenty and wealth isn't measured in money nor is it something to be hoarded.

    Maybe then I'll stop wandering around listlessly failing to get anything done.

    #Dreams #Ambivalence #Utopia

  10. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/771…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #ambivalence #effort #exhaustion #hesitation #indecision #uncertainty #wavering

  11. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/771…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #ambivalence #effort #exhaustion #hesitation #indecision #uncertainty #wavering

  12. A quotation from Bertrand Russell

    Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.

    Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
    Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/771…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #ambivalence #effort #exhaustion #hesitation #indecision #uncertainty #wavering

  13. CW: Food

    Apple-strawberry-blueberry crisp, made with dead apples, the leftover frozen fruit, and the last of the cornstarch, plus oats, sugar and a bit of butter

    In the one hand it’s an ecologically sound “eat all the things” approach to breakfast

    On the other, it does call up some serious sugar guilt!

    And on the third hand (???) it’s a tasty treat on a cold winter morning. The ginger was a nice touch!

    #breakfast #baking #ambivalence

  14. CW: Food

    Apple-strawberry-blueberry crisp, made with dead apples, the leftover frozen fruit, and the last of the cornstarch, plus oats, sugar and a bit of butter

    In the one hand it’s an ecologically sound “eat all the things” approach to breakfast

    On the other, it does call up some serious sugar guilt!

    And on the third hand (???) it’s a tasty treat on a cold winter morning. The ginger was a nice touch!

    #breakfast #baking #ambivalence

  15. CW: Food

    Apple-strawberry-blueberry crisp, made with dead apples, the leftover frozen fruit, and the last of the cornstarch, plus oats, sugar and a bit of butter

    In the one hand it’s an ecologically sound “eat all the things” approach to breakfast

    On the other, it does call up some serious sugar guilt!

    And on the third hand (???) it’s a tasty treat on a cold winter morning. The ginger was a nice touch!

    #breakfast #baking #ambivalence

  16. CW: Food

    Apple-strawberry-blueberry crisp, made with dead apples, the leftover frozen fruit, and the last of the cornstarch, plus oats, sugar and a bit of butter

    In the one hand it’s an ecologically sound “eat all the things” approach to breakfast

    On the other, it does call up some serious sugar guilt!

    And on the third hand (???) it’s a tasty treat on a cold winter morning. The ginger was a nice touch!

    #breakfast #baking #ambivalence

  17. So storm Darragh gave us a right old battering! Woke up this morning to the brook raging higher than previously and the ground strewn with debris. Oddly, and despite all the rain, the roads to work were passable albeit by dodging large expanses of standing water and numerous tree branches.

    Since moving to ‘the wilds’ from our former urban environment my relationship with the weather has become more ambivalent. As with the rest of life, you get what you get when you get it.

    #ambivalence #flooding #floods #rain #storm #weather #wind

  18. So storm Darragh gave us a right old battering! Woke up this morning to the brook raging higher than previously and the ground strewn with debris. Oddly, and despite all the rain, the roads to work were passable albeit by dodging large expanses of standing water and numerous tree branches.

    Since moving to ‘the wilds’ from our former urban environment my relationship with the weather has become more ambivalent. As with the rest of life, you get what you get when you get it.

    #ambivalence #flooding #floods #rain #storm #weather #wind

  19. Susan Sontag ‚Against Interpretation‘ (1964)

    Our task is not to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art, much less to squeeze more content out of the work than is already there. Our task is to cut back content so that we can see the thing at all. The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

    In “Pilgrimage”: “Reading and listening to music: the triumphs of being not myself.”

    Link for the original essay: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54889e73e4b0a2c1f9891289/t/564b6702e4b022509140783b/1447782146111/Sontag-Against+Interpretation.pdf

    Nun also Susan Sontag. Mit Lesen und Musikhören genießt sie in ihrer Studentenbude den „Triumph nicht ich zu sein“, wie sie im Tagebuch notiert. Das Schreiben selbst gehört auch zu diesem „Triumph“. Es ist gegen sich gerichtet, aber nicht selbstquälerisch. „Selbsterkenntnis ist nicht das Ziel. Kraft – was ich will ist Kraft … Die Kraft zu handeln.“ Zu sich kommen heißt für sie, sich darauf vorbereiten, groß herauszukommen. Eilenberger gibt eine dichte Beschreibung ihres für die Bühnen der Welt bestimmten Lebensentwurfes. „Sie vertiefte sich tagsüber in Beckett, Borges und Benjamin und war jede Nacht auf drei Szenenpartys gleichzeitig; sie rauchte drei Schachteln am Tag …; sie dinierte mittags mit Leonard Bernstein und Jackie Kennedy und ging nachmittags mit deren Schwager Bobby ins Bett; sie betrog ihre besten Freundinnen mit deren kahlköpfigen Ehemännern und sich selbst mit Warren Beatty; … sie war eine nationale Berühmtheit und konnte von ihrem Schreiben doch kaum leben; sie war eine alleinerziehende Mutter und transatlantische Jetsetikone … sie strebte nach Tiefe und ließ sich von Warhol in dessen Factory fotografieren; sie dominierte jede Diskussion und verfluchte sich für ihre offenbare Unfähigkeit, auch nur ein einziges Mal die Schnauze zu halten.“

    Anders als Adorno fühlt sich Susan Sontag angezogen vom Betriebsgeheimnis der Kulturindustrie. Sie sucht nach „neuen Erlebnisweisen“ in Film, Fotografie, Funk und Fernsehen. Es geht um den Zauber der Medien und der Masse. Sie wird zu einer intellektuellen Ikone der Avantgarde. Sie will ein Star sein, aber sie kann die Leute nicht leiden, die sie anhimmeln.

    Schonungslos im Tagebuch, in der Öffentlichkeit bisweilen taktisch, besonders zur Zeit der Anti-Vietnamkriegs-Bewegung 1968. Beim Besuch in Hanoi zeigt sie sich über die ideologische Gleichschaltung der Menschen entsetzt, doch nur im Tagebuch. In der Reportage sind es „ganze Menschen, nicht ‚zerrissen‘ wie wir“. Diese doppelte Buchführung bekommt ihr nicht gut. „Ich habe … enorme Schwierigkeiten gehabt, über mich selbst nachzudenken, mit mir selbst im Kontakt zu sein“, heißt es im Tagebuch. Es gelingt ihr also, sich über sich selbst als öffentliche Person aufzuklären. Sie hat sich nicht mit sich selbst verwechselt. Das Philosophieren hat ihr dabei ebenso geholfen wie später bei ihrem Kampf gegen den Krebs. Krankheit als Metapher ist ein grandioses Werk der Aufklärung, das den realistischen Sinn gegen die Gespensterfurcht stärkt. (Zu ‚Geister der Gegenwart‘ von Wolfram Eilenberger)

    #Ambivalence #Art #Books #Criticism #Diary #Essay #Journal #SusanSontag

  20. Purely ‘objective’ existence - if one wanted to postulate such a thing (/aberration) - would not be ultimately neutral as we are often led to believe, but rather ultimately ambivalent.

    #philosophy #objectivity #neutrality #ambivalence

  21. Purely ‘objective’ existence - if one wanted to postulate such a thing (/aberration) - would not be ultimately neutral as we are often led to believe, but rather ultimately ambivalent.

    #philosophy #objectivity #neutrality #ambivalence

  22. Purely ‘objective’ existence - if one wanted to postulate such a thing (/aberration) - would not be ultimately neutral as we are often led to believe, but rather ultimately ambivalent.

    #philosophy #objectivity #neutrality #ambivalence

  23. Purely ‘objective’ existence - if one wanted to postulate such a thing (/aberration) - would not be ultimately neutral as we are often led to believe, but rather ultimately ambivalent.

    #philosophy #objectivity #neutrality #ambivalence

  24. "Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

    "Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

    Francesca Newton writes: vashtimedia.com/election-labou 🧶

    #farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews

  25. "Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

    "Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

    Francesca Newton writes: vashtimedia.com/election-labou 🧶

    #farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews

  26. "Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

    "Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

    Francesca Newton writes: vashtimedia.com/election-labou 🧶

    #farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews

  27. "Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

    "Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

    Francesca Newton writes: vashtimedia.com/election-labou 🧶

    #farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews

  28. "Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

    "Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

    Francesca Newton writes: vashtimedia.com/election-labou 🧶

  29. @Radical_EgoCom it’s about education. I was one of them you may not know. It took education to understand how my inaction is actually an action. Attacking the hippie “idiots” by calling them “idiots” is no way to get them on your side. It will merely entrench them. I agree with your sentiment and message but put a different way.

    #moralism #DiscoElysium #pacifism #apathy #Ambivalence

  30. @Radical_EgoCom it’s about education. I was one of them you may not know. It took education to understand how my inaction is actually an action. Attacking the hippie “idiots” by calling them “idiots” is no way to get them on your side. It will merely entrench them. I agree with your sentiment and message but put a different way.

    #moralism #DiscoElysium #pacifism #apathy #Ambivalence