Identity fragments
In an essay at Brain Pickings, Maria Popova sketches out a conception of identity as a collection of fragments which is, paradoxically, being repressed and sanded down by identity politics:
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Feeling good vs doing good
Read more → More from Out of Many →Back in college, I based my Division III (senior thesis) research on a set of empathy studies by Nancy Eisenberg. Eisenberg’s line of research hinges on a distinction between two different kinds of empathy: empathic concern, the ability to recognize and care about the hurt others feel, and personal distress, the experiencing of the other person’s hurt yourself. Counterintuitively, personal distress is not positively associated with helping behavior. In fact, it may even decrease the likelihood of helping, if there’s an easy escape route away from the empathy-provoking situation.
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Who would you be
Read more → More from Duly Noted →A quote by Frank Serpico, by way of writer Lawrence Grobel, by way of Metafilter:
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Self and performance
Read more → More from Duly Noted →When David Bowie died two weeks ago, I felt sad, but it was nothing compared to the outpouring of grief and remembrance from friends and from the culture at large. I have always liked Bowie’s music, his style, his interviews, the characters he’s played in movies. But I never quite got Bowie.