About Me
- About Me: 1.5 generation Korean American aspiring to be who knows what.
More About Me
- Religion: Humanist? Pragmatist?
- Interests: My interests are random and plenty, all of varying depths. Fine arts, violin, politics, environment, comedy... Favorite artists: Caravaggio and Cezanne. Favorite comedian: George Carlin. Favorite violinist: Haven't decided. Too many good players out there. Favorite musical: Les Miserable!
- Expertise: Ranting. Eventually working my way to cultural criticism.
- Website: http://www.gracepok.com/
Books
- Recent Reads: My GoodReads Pg: http://www.goodreads.com/
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- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 8/3/2005
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I love all these quotes of yours. I should probably take Kahlil Gibran's advice here.Where were you 30 years ago when I was in the marrying mood? -
"First, quite simply, the ultraspecialization that sociology, and indeed all the other social sciences, has been suffering has been both inevitable and self-destructive." Ibid., 243"Human arrogance has been humanity's greatest self-imposed limitation. This, it seems to me, is the message of the sto -
"Solipsism is the greatest of all forms of hubris, greater even than objectivism." Wallerstein, Immanuel. The End of the World As We Know It. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999: 244
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"If it is true that human beings make their own identities, they nonetheless do not make them in circumstances of their own choosing." (206) Gould, Roger V. Insurgent Identities. Chicago: The University Chicago Press, 1995.
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Thanks. :) Yea, I think it's a Roborovski. I found the pic from google and it was one of the cutest ones I can find. :P -
"Because a full consideration of all the meanings and technicalities of social environments that surround the self is difficult for an individual, a person is consequently not always able to choose the behavioral option that is best suited to his or her interests. It is only with regard to the impe
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The Financial Crisis and the Systemic Failure of Academic Economics http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/wp-content/uploads/papers/Dahlem_Report_EconCrisis021809.pdf
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The pundits of knowledge establishment insist that this state of confusion is due to a shortage of studies. Soon there will be a seminar in the sky based on ten thousand new field trips. But we shall know less, not more, if these scholars have their way. Without a strategy aimed at bridging the g
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Poverty protects against suicide because it is a restraint in itself. No matter how one acts, desires have to depend upon resources to some extent; actual possessions are party the criterion of those aspired to. So the less one has the less he is tempted to extend the range of his needs indefinite
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The contempt for commerce and manual labour, the lure of easy money from investment in censos and juros, the universal hunger for titles of nobility and social prestige -- all these, when combined with innumerable practical obstacles in the way of profitable economic enterprise, hadpersuaded the bou
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