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"People are always surprised when they realize how many things they are actually experiencing but not really noticing".
High Self-Esteem Is Not The Same Thing As Healthy Self-Esteem
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People with fragile high self-esteem compensate for their self-doubts by engaging in exaggerated tendencies to defend, protect and enhance their feelings of self-worth.
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Also, individuals with high self-esteem sometimes become very unlikable when others or events threaten their egos.
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The Phoenix > Features > Our superheroes, ourselves
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The concept of someone who just wants to have fun, and be like everybody else, but at the same time is compelled to do the right thing — I think that’s a lesson that kids can’t see too often, and there isn’t enough of it anywhere else. Our culture is filled with celebrated figures who do morally reprehensible things, and kids are getting mixed messages about that all the time. So to have these models is very useful, I think.
The Phoenix > Features > Our superheroes, ourselves
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Batman’s great struggle is between revenge and justice — he’s really the go-to guy for that issue. And, of course, that’s something we’re struggling with as a country right now.
Our superheroes, ourselves
"What the current crop of comic-book action movies tell us about America's identity crisis"
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Movies, of course, are just movies. These projects have been in the works for years — chugging along Hollywood’s trillion-dollar poop-chute, now stalled or un-financed, now flush and moving again. Nobody associated with their production planned to make any great statement. And cinematic trends are not clinical symptoms. But the Zeitgeist works by coincidence, and the fact is that all of them, all these noisy dramas of superheroic identity crisis, have popped out now — at a moment of intense national self-interrogation. Are we liberators or torturers? Decent men or sadists? Are we chained to our fears or ready to embrace “change”?
The Perfect Human
Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 days. He does 200 miles just for fun. He'll race in 120-degree heat. 12 secrets to his success.
“The Hype Cycle”
This cycle tends to abrogate pop culture for those who want to experience it as connoisseurs (the brunt of the n+1 complaint). Hype makes us (happily, for many of us) have to consume culture as zeitgeist; it ceases to be an occasion to express our refined tastes. Instead, it liberates us from having to worry about tastes at all.
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In other words, we don’t judge art by its underlying fundamentals; instead we trade on their momentum.
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So how we “use” culture depends a great deal on how we regard it contextually. Without context, there isn’t much there to consume—it’s not as though the intrinsic qualities are so deep and sophisticated.
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War of the Worlds: The Human Side of Moore's Law
Here, buried in my sixth paragraph, is the most important nugget: we've reached the point in our (disparate) cultural adaptation to computing and communication technology that the younger technical generations are so empowered they are impatient and ready
HYPERBORDER
Hyperborder presents a contemporary perspective of the U.S.-Mexico border by discussing its present circumstances and provoking new thought for its future. Utilizing an interdisciplinary approach, the book offers a comparative analysis of economic, politi
Being black, 'acting white' in the workplace - The Boston Globe
"Black people with options are always going to give people cause for pause."
A Brief History Of The Halo Universe
25 years before HALO, all the way up through HALO 2, stopping before HALO 3.
Al Gore's $100 Million Makeover
How an epic loser tapped Apple, Google & his inner entrepreneur to reboot his image (and what he's doing next)
Dispatches From the Hyperlocal Future
Harvey Feldspars Geoblog (written by Bruce Sterling) on WIRED magazine
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