Word: illusioners
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The trouble is that "None of your business" represents a kind of black- and-white retro-reality that won't play anymore. The nation lives in a pervasive culture of spin and hype, the agitated, drooling and unembarrassable twin children of publicity. Spin and hype, working mostly through the magic...
Nietzsche's damning link to deception seems to stem from the prevailing emphasis on his early writings. In a now-popular unpublished essay, Nietzsche proclaimed that truth is an "illusion," as we live in a world of mere appearances.
There would have been a third curtain call had the set crew wanted to stay. But like the few who did not make it out of their chairs for a standing ovation, they were either drained or still preoccupied with the play. Some around me were mulling the scenes over...
Ultimately Ionesco must resign, defeated by the complexity of the monster he tries to describe. Innumerable counterpoints between what is rationality and what is naivete, subversion and loyalty, principle and experimentation, illusion and distortion are too much to sort out. Ionesco deliberately muddles his discussions with multiple speakers all declaiming...
The post Labor Day myth. The council's plan calls for registration and classes to begin the day after Labor Day. This idea gives the illusion that students can quietly enjoy the last true weekend of summer, as friends struggle to write their first papers.