I found that last paragraph out of step with the rest of the piece -- as if a large section was edited out. She really didn't say much about ethical reasoning as much as philosophical, at least as far as ethics is framed in the last two sentences.
― john. a resident of chicago., Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
gopnik piece on camus/sartre is p terrible
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 April 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
haha you literally could not formulate a piece i would have less interest in reading
― max, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:02 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
otm again i skipped that in a heartbeat
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Actually the NYer does formulate pieces I have less interest in reading every week, but they are usually either the non-lead talk of the town pieces, shouts & murmurs, or one of those weird shopping survey articles that that one lady does every so often.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
would rather read 100 patricia marx articles than gopnik on sartre
― max, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
feel like I should read it and report back now
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
would rather burn my entire face off than read even a single word of adam gopnik about sartre
wld rather die in an unexpected car crash
― dayo, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
wld rather die in an EXPECTED car crash
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
its a p good piece tho srs u guys j/k issue just finished dling
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol the don draper of existentialism is this 4 real
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
bahahahaha
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
I hope the other of the two (whichever it is) is the Sterling Cooper
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
uh I mean Roger Sterling sorry
the french novelist and philosopher albert camus was a terrifically good looking guy whom women fell for helplessly - the don draper of existentialism.
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
irl opening sentence of this article^
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
terrifically
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
I thought Mad Men kind of made Don Draper out to be the Don Draper of existentialism
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
camus, the don draper of don draper
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
camus on a cone
― dayo, Thursday, 5 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
the pete campbell of nihilism
― wrapped sausage stylus (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
haha the whole article is full of these self-satisfied bromides that dont make any sense. i mean i do admire camus but gopniks piece is so wrong-headed its just like '...'
― Lamp, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
the 1st part re the social dynamic between attractives and nerds is so 'things adam gopnik has thought a lil too much abt'
― lag∞n, Thursday, 5 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
Is the new Gopnik article another excuse for him to talk about himself?
― Office Tebow (Leee), Sunday, 8 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
Article about Karl May is COMPLETELY FUCKING BONKERS. I knew about Schubert adoring James Fenimore Cooper but i had no IDEA about this.
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Also yeah took about 1.5 seconds to decide on skipping gopnick/sartre
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Patricia Marx on couch-surfing was enjoyable enough and made me want to couch surf.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
someone should find a way to combine couch-surfing, crowd-surfing, and crowd-sourcing and call it couch-sourcing.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
mailman dropped off new issue and i read it in 3 minutes.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
couch-surfing, mecca, russian cooking, croatian party town, zzzzz.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm usually so easily entertained.
travel issue is always the worst. who the fuck wants to read about someone else's vacation?
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
croatoan party town
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I have been known to skip travel issue in its entirety
― tales from endoscopic oceans (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
that and the style issue
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh and the titanic zzzzzzz...
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
Every article in the style issue is "Fashion Designer X is an artist and not just a guy who makes expensive clothes, no really"
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
i like to read about other people's vacations! if they're good writers
― max, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
i don't mind travel stuff if the pictures are nice. or yeah good writers.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 17:37 (twelve years ago) link
The fact that they rebranded the travel issue as "Journeys" is even worse.
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i love how the couch surfing article painstakingly catalogs all of the rejected surfing opportunities that actually would have made for an interesting article - Marx starts by winnowing out profiles that include the word "party", and then proceeds to reject "a 'lovertarian' who grew up in Doylestown, Pennsylvania", a Hawaiian describing himself as "just a guy who has three acres of land, living in a shipping container house", a warlord from Kabul, and someone who has the had the hiccups every day for the past five years - before settling on Mrs. Boring McBorringster, a grad student from the University of Iowa.
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:52 (twelve years ago) link
I like my travel stories bland. reaaaaal bland
I didn't mind Gopnick's Camus article so much but I wanted more aphorisms from Camus' notebooks crowing about how hot he was.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
― i don't believe in zimmerman (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 19:24 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this sounds like classic nyer to me, is it def new
― john-claude van donne (schlump), Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
Nicholas Lemann's omnibus review of several books addressing inequality. It's a classic New Yorker review: patient, expert at synthesis.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 April 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
Gopnik's piece on forty year nostalgia is really lame (cherry-picks a few cultural phenomena from each decade which are supposed to support his dumb point and ignore everything else.)
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Monday, 16 April 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
a Hawaiian describing himself as "just a guy who has three acres of land, living in a shipping container house"
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 16 April 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
Gopnik's piece on forty year nostalgia is really lame
― balls, Monday, 16 April 2012 23:34 (twelve years ago) link