Word: humanism
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...does, actually. I was up at Harvard giving a lecture to the Center for Ethics. I chose to speak about exactly this. I spoke about what the responsibility of the writer is. I mentioned, during that lecture, how surprised I had been by the personal ramifications, the human ramifications of writing fiction. It carries with it remarkable implications in terms of what your responsibility is towards people who are investing a lot of emotion in your stories...
...profound really, what Jarmusch is doing. Oh wait, here she comes again. Still naked. And Lone Man is still not going for it, because he doesn't do sex while he's working. But he's sitting next to her on the couch. And absolutely every human being in the theater, having absorbed the profundity of the Nude's nudity, is now admiring her admirable breasts. Her third scene includes some wardrobe, namely a clear plastic raincoat, which has to be meaningful. Finally, she puts on a fuzzy sweater, but still no pants, which tends to draw the eye downward...
...this occasion, the worst imaginings of the Bush Administration served him well. Authorities in Mexico said 150 people are believed to have been killed by swine flu. More than 100 in seven other countries are infected. But it almost doesn't matter that Obama has had no Health and Human Services Secretary to manage the response--or a surgeon general or a head of the CDC or a border-patrol commissioner. The contingency plans were already in place...
...word influence is derived from an ancient astrological term describing the power of the stars to affect the destiny of human beings. The definition has changed a bit over the centuries, but influence remains a mysterious force and a difficult one to measure. That's part of the reason the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world is so diverse and eclectic. How do you gauge the influence of a molecular biologist vs. that of a politician, weigh the relative impact of a tennis player and a fashion designer or an architect and a minister...
...President Obama deploys his many czars and task forces, he should remember that no amount of IQ can cure the human condition. Like Republicans, Democrats are prone to overemphasize their favorite facts and theories, to gloss over contradictory data, to skew their analysis to match their values. That doesn't make them dumb people or bad people. It just makes them people...