They were a place where a child could learn that books could be mind-blowing, unpredictable, bawdy and frightening, that books could break down the divisions between nations, between foundations of thought, and between fantasy and reality.
Because the premise of "Privilege" is vast — deeply rooted change, a change in mentalities, in habits, in the foundations of thought — it's an artistic risk of the highest order: it risks absurdity.
When one sets up a foundation, more thought is given to the idea of giving; systems and processes are usually set up along with the foundation to ensure that giving is at least for a period of time".
Bear with me: I don't feel it's wishful or magical thinking to say we appear to be approaching a change in the very foundation of thought about life and the universe.
Attention: the foundation of thought and communication is severely challenged by the screens and apps in our lives.
Branching off a fear of committing to goals, relationships, love, friendships, was an emerging foundation in thought supporting my emotional hopelessness, feeding my overwhelm in stress.
Paradoxes date all the way back to ancient Greece, and logician Willard Van Orman Quine is quoted to have said: "More than once in history the discovery of paradox has been the occasion for major reconstruction at the foundation of thought".
Paul Elam offered an inverse analogy: "We can't parallel every behaviour of feminists to every behaviour out of Nazi Germany or out of the Ku Klux Klan, but if you look at the foundation of thought, the way they approach classes of people, I don't see any difference".
Paul Elam offered an inverse analogy: "We can't parallel every behavior of feminists to every behavior out of Nazi Germany or out of the Ku Klux Klan, but if you look at the foundation of thought, the way they approach classes of people, I don't see any difference".
Lyotard argued that the intellectual foundations of western thought as built by Kant, Hegel, Marx, though probably not De Botton, were teetering.
