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nolosoporto:

Mailer, Vonnegut, Vidal

““Mr. Churchill, sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?” Without pause or hesitation, he replied: “Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.” – Paul JohnsonChurchill(v…

writersatwork:

Ryszard Kapuscinski

“History ought never to be confused with nostalgia; it’s written not to revere the dead, but to inspire the living. It’s our cultural bloodstream, the secret of who we are. And it tells us to let go of the past, even as we honor it.” – Simon Sc…

“Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation. We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone aro…

smumbles:

The four part documentary, “The Century of the Self” is a must see for those interested in psychoanalysis and psychology, the history of public relations and consumerism, and the radical shift toward a paradoxical, collectively embraced …

“Television tells us everyday that we live in a world that we don’t understand, and yet in the main it does little to explain that world. It tells us of new products that make the products we have either old fashioned or obsolete. Above all, if to…

ryantannerread:

Connections, “The Trigger Effect,” 1978.
James Burke’s 1970’s documentary series explains the modern world as a web of interconnected developments. Burke famously referred to his series as exploring the “gestalt” of the mod…

nickreynolds:

James Burke’s Connections.
I’ve plugged this before but I’m plugging it again. I would have to say this is my favourite TV series ever as it changed the way I looked at the world when I was 10. 
Superficailly it’s dated but is j…

“Just because you see a locomotive hurtling down the track toward you doesn’t mean you can get out of the way.” – Bob Ryan, former deputy managing editor and director of electronic publishing, San Jose Mercury News. Columbia Journalism Review, Th…