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"People who don't work with their hands are parasites" and other truisms by Jenny Holzer
- sanj 18y agoI stopped reading after: "a man can't know what it is to be a mother" That's true at a precise level. But more valuable is: "a man can know what it is to be a parent" and I think that's a much more valuable statement. I pretty much recall this exact discussion happening during the VP debate.
- hugh 18y agoThese could be significantly improved by superimposing them over pictures of cats.
- jhancock 18y agoI don't even now why I'm replying but to say, "I couldn't have said it better!!!" ;) where is the tiled animated cats background and the cute music?
- rgrieselhuber 18y agoI'm thinking blinking text and a few marquis tags thrown in for good measure. Now I have a headache.
- aasarava 18y agoFor those who aren't familiar with the name, Jenny Holzer is a conceptual artist (so take these truisms with a grain of salt): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Holzer I was first introduced to Holzer's work when I found the "Green Table" in the corner of a courtyard at UC San Diego. It's engraved with the following statement: "IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY"
- MaysonL 18y agoThe horror, the horror. The freakin after-images...
- mynameishere 18y agoCan one of the eight people who unmodded this explain themselves? EDIT: No, no. Quit downmodding me and explain why you upmodded that website. I'm just curious. It seems really dumb and really offtopic, both.
- DougBTX 18y agoYou're probably being downmodded because you wrote "unmodded" instead of "upmodded", which sounds like it means "downmodded" - reversing the meaning of your question. Anyway, this article probably looks good to people who are looking for Truth, but don't want to spend a lot of time thinking bout it, hence bite-size truthiness. It does intrigue me that they are alphabetised...
- Prrometheus 18y agoI don't get it either.
- bayareaguy 18y agoAccept loss as a universal force.
- lucraft 18y agoGood thing I type all day then.
- shader 18y agoIf you need a quick fix for the terrible style, paste this in your address bar, or run it via firebug: javascript: function f(){s=document.body.style;s.backgroundColor="white";s.color="black";s.fontSize="10pt";s.fontFamily="arial";}f();
- SwellJoe 18y agoEven better: Skip the site entirely. I want those 38 seconds back.