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The Vow
Before we judge and ridicule anyone who’s ever been a member of a cult or sect, we should be aware of the most fundamental truth that governs our modern day lives. Let’s face it, we live in an age where influencers are born every minute, and consumerism is propagated by business manipulators in ways that we’ll never know. All of our choices are shaped by those who influence us subliminally in every aspect of our lives through social media, physical and digital advertisements, arts and media in general. The name NXIVM came to my attention last year through my work. At the time, I was still translating documentaries and reality…
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Find Me
Since I started reading again this year, I’ve had the great fortune of stumbling upon a number of wonderful books. The quirky and delectable Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, or the wonderful literary gem The Sea by John Banville, even the blood curdling Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. Nowadays I don’t read as much as I used to or as much as I’d like to. Had I known back during my university studies that those five years were the best ones of my life, academically speaking, and also time wise, I would have read all the compulsory classics, for one, and I would have definitely perused more…
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Simplify
The desire to simplify things must be present in everyone. It comes intime, when we realize our lives are finite. Time and again, the imageof Michaelangelo’s Rondanini Pieta haunts me. I remember how I admired(I still do) his first Pieta, scuplted in 1499. It must be one of themost famous sculptures in the whole world, and probably one of themost beautiful ones, too. The difference between the two works,sculpted within decades of each other, is striking, as if they hadbeen burn under the chisel of two different artists. And however muchI admire and love his Pieta, I know that he was closer to the truth(or finding himself, or God, or…
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“Skizó”-nak lenni, ehhez bátorság kell
Nagyon rég nem véleményeztem zenei albumot. Amióta megjelentek a streamelő szolgáltatások, többnyire online hallgatok zenét, nem is keveset, de az utóbbi időben főleg a magamnak az évek során összeállított, különböző hangulatokra, stílusokra épülő zenei listákat indítom be, és mivel némelyik már több száz dalt tartalmaz, elvagyok velük… (Ez a témakör külön posztot érdemelne. Hiányzik a böngészés, a borítók megszemlélése, a szövegkönyvek átlapozása, a kézzel fogható tárgyak „ízlelgetése”, és ha az összkép vonzó, akkor azok megvásárlása, fizikai formában, papírpénzzel, egy hús-vér eladónál. Hiányzik, ahogy a villamoson vagy már otthon előveszek egy-egy nehezen megszerzett, külföldről megrendelt kincset, felbontom a fóliacsomagolást, tartom a kezemben, olvasom a dalcímeket, esetleg a dalszövegeket is, és a…