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" Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care. "

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" Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler? "

" Applying for a job after finishing a Ph.D is about turning yourself inside out. You've been involved in the most introverted process you've ever done, and now you have to show yourself to the world at large. "

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" American voting districts are, across a lot of the country, deeply messed up by having been gerrymandered by right-wing politicians. "

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" Bohm's 'ontological interpretation' was so called because of the bad rap the word 'ontology' has had in our correlationist age. As a bit of a put-down. "

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