a rumination:
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There is something so violent about a group of loud white drunk white dudes. It’s actually so scary to me.
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(via circular--reference)
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“ I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending.
Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems.
All the silly stuff of life doesn’t disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations.
Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
”— Teju Cole (via thewhiskeypropagandist)(via airecl)
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“Personality is socially constructed, genetically constructed, linguistically constructed, constructed by upbringing. Where the postmoderns go wrong is in positing a nullity behind all that. It’s not a nullity, it’s something raw and frightening and bottomless.”
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(via chilltherapist)
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THE SECOND DANCE By Luke Winter
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[Article compares the compulsion to shoot, and ecstasy of shooting, with the alternate faculty of editing. Article begins with the anecdote of a photographer expressing their wish to die and an editor to subsequently arrange and publish their work without them, before…
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Jenni Rope for Napa Books
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