Showing posts with label NPR. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NPR. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Do you agree?
Do you agree with the statement that "First they heard a familiar song all by itself. Then they heard the same song buried in white noise."?
Monday, September 6, 2010
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Benjaman's Memory
This amnesic believes his name is Benjaman with an a. He chose Kyle for a surname because he was found by a Burger King & the initials "BK" stuck.
The common conception is that his loss of memory is a tragedy, but let's think of the benefits. He can be whoever he wants to be. Furthermore, he can imagine himself to have been whoever he wants himself to have been. He has cast off the shackles of the past.
But the moral of the story is that it doesn't matter who he is or who he was. He is content with his life. Best of all, people care for him, despite lacking any facts about his background. All they know is he's a fellow human being, & that's reason enough to care.
The common conception is that his loss of memory is a tragedy, but let's think of the benefits. He can be whoever he wants to be. Furthermore, he can imagine himself to have been whoever he wants himself to have been. He has cast off the shackles of the past.
But the moral of the story is that it doesn't matter who he is or who he was. He is content with his life. Best of all, people care for him, despite lacking any facts about his background. All they know is he's a fellow human being, & that's reason enough to care.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Your skull is melting
Inspired by the following line from this story about melting glaciers: "For the tribes that live in that area, the glaciers are the head of the skull of the god and the mountains are the arms and the legs," he says.
Today we are gods, & your skull is melting. Dwindling neurons worship you; impulses run the mountains of your legs, tiny synaptic tribes on ice sliding wordlessly into ocean. Your skull is melting, & we are the dying gods.
(By this I mean to say, we destroyed our gods, which was our right & all, since we created them, & we raised ourselves up, Nietzsche-nly, onto the old, infinite, divine platforms, but even then we did not realize that neither invention nor destruction will grant us immortality---all of us, & the universe, decay. Yes, the glacier is melting beneath your feet, but what the article fails to report is that your feet are disappearing, too.)
Today we are gods, & your skull is melting. Dwindling neurons worship you; impulses run the mountains of your legs, tiny synaptic tribes on ice sliding wordlessly into ocean. Your skull is melting, & we are the dying gods.
(By this I mean to say, we destroyed our gods, which was our right & all, since we created them, & we raised ourselves up, Nietzsche-nly, onto the old, infinite, divine platforms, but even then we did not realize that neither invention nor destruction will grant us immortality---all of us, & the universe, decay. Yes, the glacier is melting beneath your feet, but what the article fails to report is that your feet are disappearing, too.)
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