6 Quotes

“jiz laden”, ollestad 2010

Distortion is a constant and our eyes are easily deceived.
- Taryn Simon, TED Global 2009

“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice. “Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Macmillam, 1865

Embracing the diversity of human beings is the only way we will find our way to happiness.
- Malcolm Gladwell, TED TALK 2004

Thousands of lights are beautiful.
One light lets you imagine the person who’s there.
- Fujii Tamotsu, “Akari”, 2005, ISBN4-89815-150-7

Rather than laugh-out-loud funny, the humor they put into play tends to be quietly corosive. A vein of nullity and nihilism runs through it.
- Ralph Rugof, “Liquid Humor” I Love My Time, I Don’t Like My Time, Hatje Cantz, 2004

Humor can provide information about oneself that one would rather not have. It reminds one that one is a person that one would rather not be.
- Simon Critchley, “Laughing at Foreigners: A Peculiar Defence of Ethnic Humour”, Laughing in a Foreign Language, Hayward Publishing, 2008, 978 1 85332 266 2

Admittedly, these quotes seem quite disparate. From humor, to zen, to realistic cynicism, to Gladwell’s very “Miss America” diversity = happiness; these quotes touch the the current tips of my interests and directions. I feel that I’m currently being washed about in the tsunami of information and data that innundates me. I can’t make heads or tails of current issues, the truth behind corporate/government policy, the moral/culture clash of the west and the middle east. The Wars on Terror and Climate Change. I’m drowning in an ever-deepening sea of highly specific buzzwords and activist slogans, not to mention the ever-escalating bombardment of advertising I wade through almost zombie-like.

These quotes represent the shards of a fragmented core; the possible paths I might take through the mire - corrosive humor? Medidative peacefulness? Equal opportunity embracing? Cynical realism?

I’m sure diferent pieces will move in different directions, but at the moment, these quotes are arrows on a sign post in the muck.