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All the Great Intellectuals Were Suicide Cases
The quest for illumination is neccessarily a quest for personal oblivion. Illumination is the awareness of all things simultaneously which is a concept antithetical to individuality. The higher self as we see it from here is no self at all. God’s not a person. It’s an idea on top of the sephirot. We would all be part of God because in order to be God you would be in all things concurrently—with your consciousness being everything—everything as a manefestation of everything. There’s no will at that point, because in order to express will you need to have a singular point of view I would think.
Because of this I think the pinacle of humanness is not understanding. To be incapable of understanding outside of yourself—even as you strive to do so. That existential failing is what defines individuality.
Take the phrase blessed are the children—it’s supposed to portain to the innocence of children. The selfish unknowingness. There’s no culpability in ignorance. And thus no right or wrong. Which means no sin. That’s why all dogs go to heaven, I would imagine.
The struggle for illumination is itself a kind of paradox because it’s a struggle built out of the desire to transcend the very elements that define the quest in the first place.
All the great intellectuals were suicide cases.
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Those Poor Bastards, Wealth is Death
“Never met a rich man whose grave I didn’t want to pissss on
Never met a poor man whose grave I didn’t want to praaaay on”
“I felt strongly—still do—that for this show to work you could not have it be even 80 percent about the conspiracy. And the reason is, if you do that, then you’re gonna be chasing that story all the time and it will lead you. You will have to start blowing stuff up by episode seven. Episode four was the one that I thought was a crucial test, and I thought we passed it. In that one, there was only one scene even involving the conspiracy, which takes place, as a nod to Pakula, in an underground parking garage. The rest had to do with these people and what they do, and it worked terrifically, I thought. You need to be able to put the brakes on the conspiracy story. If you can’t put the brakes on the conspiracy story it will lead you and it will lead you badly.”
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Rubicon executive producer Henry Bromell | TV | Interview | The A.V. Club
— it’s exactly this sort of intelligence shining through that makes this a quietly spectacular show
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“Diana, Diana, Diana.” I wish I could say this was a close match but it was not. It is clear that when it comes to the sisters Wonder, Diana is the Marcia and Donna the Jan. So Wonder Woman moves on to the Elite Eight. But before you go, two things. First you might want to read this profane and…
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“The only thing a gambler needs/is a suitcase and a trunk”
“The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an autobiographical novel, like a confession, a diary. It may be the story of their first love, or their most recent, of their political awakening; the story of a trip, a sickness, their military service, their marriage, their last vacation… and it will be enjoyable because it will be true and new.
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes of a thrilling and wonderful adventure.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportionate to the number of friends the director has.
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.” —Francois Truffaut (via lacineaste) (via frenchcinema) (via allinvainortheopposite)
The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes of a thrilling and wonderful adventure.
The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportionate to the number of friends the director has.
The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.” —Francois Truffaut (via lacineaste) (via frenchcinema) (via allinvainortheopposite)
“Never draw what you can copy; never copy what you can trace; and never trace what you can cut out and paste up.”~Wally Wood”
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