Word: weltanschaung
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...putting things. He has a real knack for producing fortune-cookie phrases that pass for universal truths in his world: "Money is harder to find than a true blonde," and "Success is just a fool's word for survival." These wisdom-bites accumulate and form an actual weltanschaung--bleak but authentic. Jimi emerges as a megaphone for the Generation we all know as X, a generation overeducated and underemployed by today's working world...
...history does not exist has been around for a while--Henry Kissinger '50, for example, wrote an undergraduate thesis on the subject. As a genuine social democrat and a favorite of the left, Rifkin backs himself into a corner with his entropic world view. Why should we accept his weltanschaung instead of Plato's? What do we have to gain by accepting Rifkin's view when, as he says, progress is impossible? The author's blend of cold reality and passionate rhetoric does not sway us. Instead, he leaves us hanging, frustrated by unfulfilled expectations. Although Entropy tries to respond...
...remember how in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the killer didn't get off just by murdering women but by filming their deaths and playing them back again and again. What happens when our minds becomes 3-D movie cameras and the aesthetic of the horror film becomes our weltanschaung...
...remember how in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the killer didn't get off just by murdering women but by filming their deaths and playing them back again and again. What happens when our minds becomes 3-D movie cameras and the aesthetic of the horror film becomes our weltanschaung...
...remember how in Michael Powell's Peeping Tom the killer didn't get off just by murdering women but by filming their deaths and playing them back again and again. What happens when our minds becomes 3-D movie cameras and the aesthetic of the horror film becomes our weltanschaung...