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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type o...

Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm



Gulag : The History

Sideways (2004)

Monster (2023)

Poorest Region of America /Inside Fundamentalist Mormon Community and more

Fallen Leaves (2023)

Visiting The World's Most Dangerous Country /I Crossed The World's Deadliest Jungle: Darien Gap

Nights of Cabiria (Le notti di Cabiria 1957)

L’enfer

New Rule: Don't Go to College | Real Time with Bill Maher

Best Music Video ever--Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (Revisited) Full Length

Ayn Rand

On the Road

A tu vera (de la película "El balcón de la luna")

Underground (1995)

Consciousness, Free Will, Psychedelics, AI, UFOs, Meaning and more | Lex Fridman

Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Death of Europe, MADNESS OF CROWDS: GENDER, RACE AND IDENTITY

Tribe meets white man for the first time

Blue Velvet (1986)

"Are You With Me?" -A book on grief

Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow -Nick Cave and Bad Seeds

How the Internet was Stolen

Only suckers put hope in the future

Tár (2022)

Drive my car (2021)

In Bruges (2008)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

LE VENT NOUS PORTERA