And it gets at the perpetual striving.
The current cluster of Holocaust plays also has to do with a dynamic of limitation and perpetual striving.
"I was trying to think of the one thing you could have someone wear that would imply she was this bourgeois person," all greed and perpetual striving, Mr. Mizrahi explained.
Korea expert Sonia Ryang, herself educated in in North Korean schools in Japan, suggests that Kim is-seen, "is seen as the utmost form of existence that every North Korean is supposed to emulate (although everyone at the same time knows that it would not be possible to do so)." The state thus locates its citizens in a space of perpetual striving to meet an unattainable goal.
We can liberate ourselves from the perpetual spiritual striving through discernment and self-love.
But let's stop the perpetual insanity of striving to perfect what was never intended to be perfect.
Viewing the developments in the Soviet Union through the ideological prism and ignoring the historical pattern of political change in Russia, America and the West failed to realize what Yanov describes as the perpetual struggle "between reform striving to destroy the Russian autocracy and counter reform seeking to perpetuate it".
Striving for a perpetual flash effect in Fiona Apple's video for "Criminal" (1996), he attached an $11 halogen lamp to the top of a camera -- an idea "so dumb it worked," he said.
Importantly, senior management strives to create a culture of perpetual crisis that forces the company to look seriously at competitive threats and develop new growth businesses.
Meanwhile, a nascent constellation of movements is striving to thwart the surveillance state, the shadowy companion of perpetual war.
Then there's the Lower East Side, which has become a cradle to luxury condos after spending decades as a place where immigrants of all stripes strived to get to, then sought to leave as quickly as possible — a kind of perpetual springboard to a better life.
