Solipsism is enthralling but also boring (and finally often repulsive).
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Anyway, what is solipsism in wartime but the selfishness of survival?
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This is solipsism, not theatre (or, at least, not interesting theatre).
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Ms. Swicord — and Mr. Cranston, too — seem trapped in Wakefield's solipsism.
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And Dylan, since you've studied philosophy, please tell us more about solipsism.
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In a similar vein, Kahn toys with solipsism only to deny it.
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Yet it must also be strong enough to avoid charges of solipsism.
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"I can't disprove [solipsism], but the idea seems pretty unlikely," Jens said.
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In our own world, venality, solipsism, and wealth seem always to win.
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By the 1980s, this vision of campaign reporting was toppling into solipsism.
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That's disheartening solipsism for a film with a premise so scintillatingly brazen.
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Solipsism and self-absorption traps them in the Bardo; empathy frees them.
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" It "promotes solipsism at the personal level and division at the social level.
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But really, the solipsism of any national debate is only half the story.
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No force keeps her from having both, other than her own unacknowledged solipsism.
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Not at all...But how can we move beyond solipsism and tired Hollywood tropes?
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The show has always orbited around Hannah's solipsism and the subsequent destruction it invites.
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The reader and writer both self-transcend; a seemingly private act, reading counteracts solipsism.
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Some philosophers have taken that idea to be an argument against Simone's form of solipsism.
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I left them to fend for themselves, removing myself into my own anxieties and solipsism.
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This solipsism perhaps explains Alig's tendency to exaggerate the truth to the point of lies.
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I did find myself wondering, though, how intentional this critique of American solipsism really was.
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" What she wants, as a writer, is "to help overturn the solipsism of white innocence.
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An entirely individual morality, in its vision, is a kind of solipsism doomed to fail.
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This kind of solipsism was a great temptation for Pessoa, as "The Book of Disquiet" reveals.
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But nothing about being a woman or a minority makes you immune to meritocracy's ruthless solipsism.
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It's a promise against cliche and solipsism and blandness; it's a tilted head and an open window.
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I'm certainly quite sensitive about excess solipsism with what I write, especially when it comes to Cursive.
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Though dangerous in theory, this kind of solipsism might be the only reasonable reaction in these times.
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But as one burrows deeper into Here I Am, the solipsism of a gilded life becomes stifling.
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Most abandon the adolescent tendencies which Tool still espouse—arrogance, solipsism, know-it-allness—sometime into their twenties.
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The tragedy of BPD is that it runs on such solipsism that it inverts me as a person.
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There's enough heart here to redeem every recent male novel that's aimed for it and found solipsism instead.
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But his madness is that of a cosseted egotist who has experienced an electric shock to his solipsism.
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"This is another sorry example of the current state of Republican solipsism," said Jerry Brown, the Democratic governor.
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And for the solipsism of sickness since quite a few people confront more dire circumstances than I do.
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Even though his cameras were ever-present, van der Elsken's work didn't contain the least tinge of solipsism.
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What ensues is "Rosemary's Baby amped up into a fugue state of self-indulgent solipsism," EW's Chris Nashawaty writes.
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If we want to make the critical shift from solipsism to collective consciousness, don't we need something like empathy?
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His belligerence and narcissism, even solipsism, show us how not to act if we want to play them well.
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We get mired in solipsism and delude ourselves into believing that the proverbial struggle cannot go on without us.
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Let's face it: Social media is better at fostering solipsism than it is at inspiring or showcasing creative work.
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The solipsism inherent to the book's structure is more than a little grating, and Foer's unabashed sentimentality doesn't always land.
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Jenner, clothed in the immensity of wealth's solipsism, only ever seemed to vaguely understand the plight of white trans people.
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But our solipsism is frequently given outward expression rather than inward exploration, with more emphasis than ever before on images.
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His stature with critics may be shaky, but this program makes the case that there is artistry in his solipsism.
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The book covers the myopic solipsism of the tech world — but it also captures its best and most utopian impulses.
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Greenberg unfortunately replicates an American solipsism so deep and ongoing that it affects even a historian who should know better.
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The best rebuke to Mr Trump's solipsism would be Republican defeat at the ballot box, starting with November's mid-term elections.
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When you're at eye level with another person, however, you can be briefly prodded out of solipsism: you see yourself being seen.
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What such critics see as a license for solipsism was in truth a call to recognize and respect the dignity of others.
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"American Philosophy" succeeds, not as a textbook or survey, but a spirited lover's quarrel with the individualism and solipsism in our national thought.
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His preoccupations therein are with dualities, dichotomies and doubles: philanderer-penitent, solitude-solipsism, prince-pauper, Clark Kent-Superman, to name just a few.
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Accustomed to considering the reception a project might engender in a public audience, younger artists have been encouraged to think beyond avant-garde solipsism.
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Aransentin, who goes by Jens, told me via Reddit messenger that he customized the /r/solipsism style because he thought it would be fun.
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As Rousseauian innocents of the Internet age, they aren't susceptible to the vapidity, solipsism and toxicity the rest of us have been sullied by.
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He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.
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All around me were examples of the worst elements of the English ruling class: their solipsism, their hatred of the poor, their amazing rudeness.
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It seemed as if photography, which continued to engage with the world after modernist painting and literature turned inward, had finally crumpled into solipsism.
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The works — one a feminist critique of blind patriotism, one a suggestion of self-love or even solipsism — form the center of the show.
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It's difficult to see this parochialism, the endless moaning that argument has become impossible, as anything more than generational solipsism, or perhaps ordinary cowardice.
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It's natural, but do so, and miss both the fact that Bernie remains the toast of the beach and the stinging commentary on yuppie solipsism.
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Some of us are lucky, though: Our solipsism actually matches the wave function of history, and the moment we entered adulthood really was a peak.
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All the same — despite the claustrophobia and the solipsism and the Freud — there is an undeniable joy to be had in reading Foer's textured, playful prose.
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Cutaways to a character known only as The Man (Oldman) — a sort of universal sponsor — release us from the members' solipsism, if not from our pain.
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Not so Trump: All instinct and solipsism, he simply doesn't care enough about Trumpism to find people who might carry his impulses forward once he's gone.
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" It's a mixture of idealism and solipsism that reminded me of a German ex of mine, who insisted on calling himself "a citizen of the verld.
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The result is a memoir that seems bent on dodging the usual memoir clichés, but in doing so, overcorrects, falling prey to the solipsism it tries to avoid.
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Chekhov gets under our skin because he locates the banal emptiness and solipsism of our self-soothing rhetoric (to "be in the moment," to "tend your own garden").
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Still, it would be an exercise in solipsism without the larger, more grounded ensemble, particularly Daniel's opposite number, Ted, Jr., who becomes both his bully and his victim.
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As in "Matilda," his undulating melodies and whip-smart lyrics tap into the brooding sides of the supporting characters, extending the reach of existential anxiety beyond Phil's solipsism.
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" For Baldwin, America's racial turmoil derived from solipsism: "White people, mainly, look away," preferring barriers, and "if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will.
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Given that virtually all humans claim to be self-aware, we have to take a leap of faith and accept it as fact (otherwise we'd be accused of solipsism).
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But there is no salvation for Faust, whose crime is the one transgression that Goethe can never forgive—solipsism, the refusal to acknowledge the full reality of other people.
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On the other hand, Astra also can't be bothered to give Tyler an actual character to play, so both movies indulge some degree of unproductive solipsism about their protagonists' loneliness.
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Ambiguity is a defining characteristic of the European art cinema; at its most clichéd, directorial solipsism is mistaken for mystery and empty images are turned into endlessly masticated cud for cultists.
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Readers will be left with the question: can landscape painting retain its distinction as a genre, or is it doomed to drift toward Jackson Pollock's "I am nature" paean to solipsism?
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It has become something of a pretournament tradition for former England players to suggest the solipsism of the millennial generation is to blame for the country's failures at the international level.
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Gaiman's book ingeniously gives a cosmic dimension to such solipsism, as a 7-year-old boy in rural England finds his quiet existence rattled by life-consuming, supernal forces of darkness.
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Kempowski's handling of this episode displays all his deep talents as a novelist—his impartial hospitality to many different perspectives, his shrewd comprehension of his characters' solipsism, the impurity of their heroism.
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A reliance on confessional monologue — in essence, the posture of the therapist's couch — worked beautifully in the earlier novels, inscribing their concern with solipsism in the sealed universe of a single voice.
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Dylan: Honestly most of what I know about solipsism comes not from any formal philosophical education but from actress Shirley Maclaine, who used to muse about the whole world being inside her head.
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The terrifically talented Benjamin Lewis, the Adrian I saw, radiated a sweet and incandescent solipsism, untainted by hipster irony, that befits a lad who is after all the star of his own life.
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At its worst, this kind of fiction, the writer Hari Kunzru has observed, can "degenerate into something like an artfully curated social media feed," lapsing into solipsism and betraying a lack of imagination.
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That social media critics would expect that she, a Chinese immigrant, frame the depiction of slavery in her book to reflect an American narrative is the height of cultural solipsism and American arrogance.
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The strengths that made Kael's work so compelling also proved to be fatal weaknesses: Her deeply personal tastes could give way to solipsism and, as "What She Said" makes clear, she could be a bully.
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I have loved it ever since I was a 14 year old who'd never heard of solipsism, and came up with the whole idea himself in his bedroom, also not realizing it was centuries old.
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" Solipsism aside, the biggest wow, Mr. Axelrod says, is breathing life into the sculptures, since "this was made for the music video, no one would have been able to tell [how] those sculptures were moving.
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Like the novels that preceded it, "The Cursed Child" is stuffed with arcana-filled plots that defy diagrams and baldly wrought sentimental life lessons, along with anguished dives into the earnest, tortured solipsism of adolescence.
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This method of dealing with material fact shorn of any auxiliary symbolic/poetic association, set his path towards the worst of all possible worlds: formalist reductionist solipsism without a hint of poetic or political metaphor.
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Which is too bad, because journey-to-the-center-of-the-mind solipsism is far less intriguing than having to navigate a place full of real (or at least fictionally real) individuals with independent inner lives.
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" Another Me (Jackalopalen) posted nothing but this: It didn't take long for other Reddit users to find this post, prompting user RTS1991 to post to Reddit's r/bestof: "Solipsism subreddit populated by one user talking to himself.
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What really distinguishes them from their predecessors, say their critics, is not solipsism, impatience or a certainty that can slide from admirable passion into self-righteousness, but the expectation that all their problems should be magicked away.
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Less concerned with questions of form and style than their autofiction forebears, these novels and stories suggest that fiction has finally begun to move from its place of deep solipsism to address a deepening sense of futility.
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Yet, magically, even as he trashed each opportunity, the series didn't bog down in bleakness: it was sympathetic to BoJack's depression and the sources of his pain, but it didn't glamorize his solipsism as a special sensitivity.
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A second single, "Clouds," features Atlanta singer Kyeoshin playing the female voice, passionately pleading over a mosaic of ambient buzz and reversed drum sounds—a surprising tonal shift that turns the solipsism of singledom into a lover's dialogue.
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It almost feels like a joke to say—in the wake of several records of unfiltered, meandering folk songs that present a warts-and-all image of his descent into solipsism—that this is finally the real him.
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" Later, a woman who works at the facility speaks, approvingly, of the suspension process to a group of recruits as the final word in solipsism: "You are completely outside the narrative of what we refer to as history.
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Well, I think more — maybe this is solipsism —but I think more like, yeah, everything that is happening is explained by the kind of stuff that we and other people have been writing about for the past 103 years.
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Her silence is striking, highlighting the parallels between the singer and the president: their adept use of social media to foster a diehard support base; their solipsism; their laser focus on the bottom line; their support among the 'alt-right.
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Girlfriend often speaks with a rising inflection, such that her statements are uttered as questions, as in a monologue about her recent distress upon discovering the possible social inutility and solipsism of artistic practice in the face of real world concerns.
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The solipsism it requires to write two books in a row about this is both staggering and baffling, considering how firmly nerd culture — video games, computers, comic books — has moved into the mainstream, and the massive economic and cultural influence it wields.
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Pessoa's achievement, deliberate or inadvertent, is to show how the roots of a certain kind of misery lie in solipsism—the belief that nothing outside the self really matters, so that the mind can never be truly affected by what it experiences.
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"Voyage of Time," which was made in consultation with a team of leading academic scientists, dispenses reassurance rather than awe, and its suggestion that each individual is just as vast as the cosmos seems more likely to encourage solipsism than intellectual curiosity.
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But some of the impulse is just solipsism: No one wants to believe that they're living in a normal time of history when they could be living in the dramatic end times of the republic or the last moments before their nation is torn asunder.
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David Foster Wallace, one of Cohen's conspicuous influences, lived and wrote in terror of solipsism, though no matter how hard he strove to imagine characters unlike himself (and he had huge range), you always saw Wallace, almost his actual face, through the unmistakable style.
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For two years this went on, a master-class in patience and self-promotion and the slow-burn cultivation of a can't-miss moneymaking opportunity by two poets of solipsism who understand that in the right hands demand can be created where there was no demand before.
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This has always been a part of his DNA, just like the impulse to snap on George Bush on live TV, just like the solipsism that would lead him to believe that Donald Trump's defining characteristic could be how people expected Kanye West to feel about him.
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Carl's vocal carries with it the necessary emotional heft needed to sell lines like "I might as well be crucified/drowning, drowning, drowning, drowning for love," which in the hands of a lessor producer, arranger, and performer could come across as nothing more than teenage solipsism.
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It is an approach that may be out of step with the times; to treat life as a mission to discover oneself can read like solipsism, especially when we know that so much of identity is shaped by factors beyond our control, by race, gender, class.
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There's now a feeling that Brexit has given weight to Sinn Féin's decades-old push, and that fear of economic upheaval and anger at what many in Northern Ireland believe to be the particular solipsism of English Leave voters could inspire moderate loyalists to relax their old allegiances.
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As Mr. Nygard compared himself to Leonardo da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin while dancing with a bevy of models — or as a voice-over explained, "living a life most can only dream of" — nine minutes of YouTube expanded into a vapid eternity, where time melted into a vortex of solipsism.
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If I'd been more on top of it that summer in Hanoi and less lost in a writer's solipsism — not to mention my own personal shortsightedness about the war — I might have asked more questions, elicited more details, or maybe recorded some of these stories and anecdotes in a more systematic way.
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The very things that make fighters what they are—the willingness to stand half-naked and alone in a cage in front of thousands of people, the eight-week exercises in solipsism disguised as fight camps, the deep physical self-obsession, the solitude—are the same things that make any kind of consensus nearly impossible.
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Jamison, who is the author of a novel, The Gin Closet, and a lauded collection of essays, The Empathy Exams, is preternaturally canny about the so-called "confessional" genre she has chosen to write in, sidestepping most of its potential pitfalls—such as an atmosphere of claustrophobic solipsism—while retaining its aspects of immediacy and beguilingly unhip self-revelation.
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He sagely works in lyrical images from his own life—the Cabrini-Green projects where he spent some time growing up that have now been torn down and rebuilt as condos, for instance—for their broader philosophical heft than for shock value and uses self-portrayal—the motif of mirrors is all over iiiDrops—with thoughtful consideration rather than solipsism.
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Its focus on the use of color during a decade marked by Clement Greenberg's advocacy of the reflexive flatness of Color Field painting, which ultimately led to the dematerialization of the object, would seem to invite every manner of curatorial crisis, from academicism to superficiality to solipsism, and Breslin did state in his opening remarks from the podium that the show could have easily tumbled into disaster.
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What we got instead were simply more displays of churlishness and solipsism, running from his oblivious response to the horrible massacre of Jewish Americans at a Pittsburgh synagogue (it was somehow the fault of the "fake news media" which is "the enemy of the people" and hey, they should have had better security), to his implication that pipe bombs sent to his enemies were a "false flag" operation, to his incessant pillorying of the "caravan" of desperate refugees fleeing Central America, right down to a final ad considered so racist that it was even pulled from Fox.
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