Rainy day. I did not attend the science march. (See text messages the following day with משה ★.)
37th Ave. Emergency meat and cheese from FD (23:43). B’bra’s darling friend gave me quite a nice smile when I greeted them through the 🍕👦 window (9407). ❤
Huge raccoon ambling on 72nd St. (9408).
“We surround ourselves with people who feel the same way we do, and we approve each other, and that’s a really good feeling. And if somebody gets in the way, we screen them out. And do you know what that’s the opposite of? It’s the opposite of democracy. We wanted to show that we cared about people dying of AIDS in Africa. Our desire to be seen to be compassionate is what led us to commit this profoundly un‐compassionate act. …
“[T]he phrase misuse of privilege is becoming a free pass to tear apart pretty much anybody we choose to. It’s becoming a devalued term, and it’s making us lose our capacity for empathy and for distinguishing serious from unserious transgressions. ….
“[R]ight now, the ideologues are winning, and they’re creating a stage for constant artificial high dramas, where everybody’s either a magnificent hero or a sickening villain ….”
—Jon Ronson, “When Online Shaming Goes Too Far,” TEDGlobalLondon, June 2015.
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Commentary
– Incomparable! Who is the photographer? (‒‒:‒‒)
– Or is that a painting?