October 2011
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Kubrick.
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their idealism, and their assumption of immortality. As children mature, they see...
September 2011
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“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered,...”
– Anaïs Nin
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The Fear of Youth.
The fear of youth is called ephebiphobia. First coined as the “fear and loathing of teenagers,” today the phenomenon is recognized as the “inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people” in a range of settings around the world.
Machiavelli is said to have realized that a fear of youth is what kept the city of Florence from keeping a standing army. Ancient Venice and...
April 2010
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