So many points of light. (From a Kiki Smith installation at the DeYoung Museum, San Francisco) Some people are more certain of everything than I am of anything. –Robert Rubin In the spirit of “everything is autobiographical,” this blog is a map of the ideas that matter most to me. A quick search here for […]
Jonathan Haidt
In the Hive, and Out
Human beings are in some ways like bees. We evolved to live in intensely social groups, and we don’t do as well when freed from hives. Nicholas Kristof included this quote from Jonathan Haidt, author of The Happiness Hypothesis in his recent column in the New York Times. Entitled “Our Basic Human Pleasures: Food, Sex […]
The Big E
Very interesting article on Slate about the emotion I crave most from everything in life—politics, friendships, painting, food, sex—and with a wonderful name all its own: Elevation. (I always did love that song by Bono of the same name…) And near the end there is a discussion of elevation’s counterweight, disgust. This is particularly poignant […]