The desire for fulfilling work — a job that provides a deep sense of purpose, and reflects our values, passions and personality — is a modern invention. … For centuries, most inhabitants of the Western world were too busy struggling to meet their subsistence needs to worry about whether they had an exciting career that used their talents and nurtured their wellbeing. But today, the spread of material prosperity has freed our minds to expect much more from the adventure of life.
We have entered a new age of fulfillment, in which the great dream is to trade up from money to meaning.
” Roman Krznaric in “How to Find Fulfilling Work” (via joanoh)Diiv - Doused
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Cartoon by Edward Steed. For more: http://nyr.kr/ZdqYBe
But isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.” Roland Barthes, The Absent One from A Lover’s Discourse, translation by Richard Howard (via frenchtwist)
When he hears the laughs in response to Morril’s joke, he’s not liable to feel shame about the night the girl from the bar passed out when he got her upstairs; he’s probably going to feel like he’s surrounded by a bunch of people who agree that what he did wasn’t really a big deal. He’s going to be reassured that he’s not in a society that takes it seriously.”
What Do Rapists Think About Rape Jokes? | xoJane (via brute-reason)
[Trigger Warning: Rape and Rape Culture]
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Cairo, 2013.
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Clarice Lispector, A Hora Da Estrela (via maxistentialist)
If I didn’t have any self-management I would only publish Clarice Lispector excerpts on my tumblr.
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