I understand why many educated modern humans have moved on from religions.
But with this advancement of sorts, we also lost a very time-tested form of human wisdom – condensed over previous generations, made actionable so that people's children and grandchildren would not have to repeat their worst mistakes, and coul...
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Emily Wilson is wrong about Nolan, yes, but more importantly, about Homer:
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"Sing, Muse, the wrath of Emily..."
She's at it again re: Nolan's Odyssey, now in The Atlantic.
This time she finally makes explicit what she's been passive aggressively implying for a few weeks: that Nolan's art is invalid partly because of who he is as a person (some sort of https://t.co/U6R5rgC9AQ
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When you're trying to bring something new into the world, and the path is somewhat long, there is a useful art of counterbalancing yourself.
If you ever feel like you are losing faith in your vision from critiques or potential problems, maybe listen to Jonny Ive talk about the delicacy of new ideas, and how a critic p...
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My tip: don't "midcurve" your viewing of The Odyssey (or any film really)
Nolan describes what midcurving (my term) movies is in this (very interesting) interview with Zhong Shu: youtu.be/wa4I8Ch2TRo?...
Paraphrasing, it's when, as an "amateur film critic", you think that "being aware that a f...
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I accidentally wrote my first review of Nolan's Odyssey.
cc @nounishprof @adrienne
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A small defense of Nolan's "simplification" of The Odyssey.
The criticism of Nolan's Odyssey that I sympathize with the most is that one that's made in good-spirit here by @Tim_Org: that the story has been oversimplified (and relatedly, that Odysseus himself is oversimplified,
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advice: "fake it til you make it"
reality: "fake it until you appear to others to have made it, and then convince yourself based on material successes that they must be correct, but never actually experience the inherent reward of discovering your true self and bringing that unique contribution to the world."
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fckin @borodutch don’t sleep
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The wolves picking Ant #1 was very non-consensus!
And then they grabbed Jaden McDaniels at #28, a couple hours later.
Franchise-changing night.
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