nORMaL is WEIRD Course Blog: HW 47 - Peer Perspectives on the Care of the Dead

"A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on what type of assumptions, of familiar practices, of established, unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based.

...There is always a little thought occurring even in the most stupid institutions; there is always thought even in silent habits. Criticism consists in uncovering that thought and trying to change it: showing that things are not as obvious as people believe, making it so that what is taken for granted is no longer taken for granted. To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy." -Michel Foucault

p. 456 in Essential Works of Michel Foucault V3 (Power) edited by James Faubion. New Press. 2000.

"We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness, which no one can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come to regard the world." - Marcel Proust, quoted in Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt

"I find myself often idle, vagrant, stupid, and hollow. This is somewhat appalling and, if I do not discipline myself with diligent care, I shall suffer severely with remorse and the sense of inferiority hereafter ... We forget ourselves and our destinies in health; and the chief use of temporary illness is to remind ourselves of these concerns." - Ralph Waldo Emerson, age 18 from "The Heart of Emerson's Diaries" quoted on Google Books

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Saturday, April 16, 2011

HW 47 - Peer Perspectives on the Care of the Dead

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