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“The essential difference between the culture of the past and the entertainment of today is that the products of the former sought to transcend mere present time, to endure, to stay alive for future generations, while the products of the latter are made to be consumed instantly and disappear, like cake or popcorn.”
― Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
― Notes on the Death of Culture: Essays on Spectacle and Society
“El venezolano es locuaz, niega lo trascendente con su actitud de bromista crónico, jamás se compromete realmente y por eso es ondulante y disimulador de sus convicciones más profundas. Nadie sabe lo que realmente piensa, pues trata siempre de estar bien con Dios y con el diablo. Bajo una pretendida efusividad se esconde la envidia y la desvalorización hacia quienes se destacan. Tras una aparente solidaridad se transparente la indolencia, el egocentrismo y la deslealtad. Y esa extraña afición que despierta una agresividad feroz y una violencia destructiva.”
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“¿Qué era lo que yo quería aprender? ¿Qué quería hacer? No lo sabía. Ni programas ni guías: ninguna idea concreta. De acá o de allá, este u oeste, en profundidad o en altura. Solamente saber, saber todo. —He aquí la palabra de mi desastre: ¡todo!”
― Un uomo finito
― Un uomo finito
“Perseverance is a virtue of the less brilliant.”
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“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines us (frontal cortex) is less a product of the genes with which you started life than of what life has thrown at you. Because it is the last to mature, by definition the frontal cortex is the brain region least constrained by genes and most sculpted by experience. This must be so, to be the supremely complex social species that we are. Ironically, it seems that the genetic program of human brain development has evolved to, as much as possible, free the frontal cortex from genes.”
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
― Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Jagr’s 2025 Year in Books
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