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“옳은 걸 ‘옳다’ 라고 말하려면 때때로 목숨을 거는 용기가 필요할 때도 있다는거야. 틀린 걸 이걸 ‘틀렸다’ 말하려면 밥줄이 끊길 각오를 해야 될 때도 있다는거야. 그래서, 그 두려움 때문에, 우리는 옳은걸 옳다고 말 잘 못하고, 틀린걸 틀렸다고 말 잘 못한다.”

Metro ligne 1 avec naturally7, feel it

psychanalyse et prostitution

Drey: ” c’est essentiel la psychanalyse, aussi essentiel que la prostitution par exemple.”

Fab.: “Quel rapport entre la psychanalyse et la prostitution?”

Drey: “Ben éjaculer pour certains, ça fait du bien.”

Fab. et moi en coeur: “Euh non, pas que pour certains.”

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“When you clean, when you favor hermetic sealing in the name of safety, you also disconnect people from one another. When on top of that you add layers of solipsistic technology, the isolation intensifies. In its preserved Gallic disguise, Paris is today no less a globalized city than New York.”

Abstract from this Roger Cohen op ed here

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“What will be the state of the art in 2084? Who, if anyone, will still be able to tell “the right stuff” from rubbish? Who will know, who will care, who will loudly protest that the last (though tiniest) circle at the center of the style-target has still not been reached (and may never be reached)? What will such nitpicky details matter, when new Bach and Chopin masterpieces applauded by all come gushing out of silicon circuitry at a rate faster than H₂O pours over the edge of Niagara? Will that wondrous new golden age of music not be “truly a thing of beauty”?”

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“It would be the realization that all of the “computing power” that resides in a human brain’s 100 billion neurons and its roughly ten quadrillion synaptic connections can be bypassed with a handful of state-of-the-art chips, and that all that is needed to produce the most powerful artistic outbursts of all time (and many more of equal power, if not greater) is a nanoscopic fraction thereof — and that it can all be accomplished, thank you very much, by an entity that knows nothing of knowing, seeing, hearing, tasting, living, dying, struggling, suffering, aging, yearning, singing, dancing, fighting, kissing, hoping, fearing, winning, losing, crying, laughing, loving, longing, or caring.”

“Sounds like Bach“

DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER

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- “je voudrais être plus malheureuse…”

- “si tu restes à mes côtés, je te rendrai malheureuse pour la vie”

- “vraiment??”

- “oui, je te le promets, tu seras malheureuse pour toujours avec moi.”

- “merci, quel soulagement…”

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“so there’s the irony of parenthood. you tell your kids not to repeat your own mistakes, but in actuality, you listened to your parents, and regret it. great.”

cousin E.

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“The $700 billion figure? “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number.”

A US Treasury spokesman (probably fired by now).

Full article here. The question is: are they going to use the same valuation method when buying the toxic assets…

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“The decisions that will be made this weekend matter not just to the prospects of the US economy in the year to come; they will shape the type of capitalism we will live in for the next fifty years. Do we want to live in a system where profits are private, but losses are socialized? Where taxpayer money is used to prop up failed firms? Or do we want to live in a system where people are held responsible for their decisions, where imprudent behaviour is penalized and prudent behaviour rewarded? For somebody like me who believes strongly in the free market system, the most serious risk of the current situation is that the interest of few financiers will undermine the fundamental workings of the capitalist system. The time has come to save capitalism from the capitalists.”

Luigi Zingales, a Robert C. Mc Cormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance from the University of Chicago-GSB

L’article en entier ici. Le meilleur résumé de ce qui est en jeu: un problème de responsabilités collectives et individuelles et non de système économique.

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“Time heals nothing….It just formats our brain and makes it empty again;deleting the history files stored in the memories of this disc called mind.”

Bhuwan Thapaliya