Feeling out of sorts around my birthday, not doing anything to celebrate it, reading Erving Goffman's sociological theory of "dramaturgy," returning to my favorite texts in Chinese philosophy, caring less about what is demonstrably true and more about about what is "true" for me as I get older, wanting to have my very personal worldview validated, there being nothing new under the sun, renovating a house as a metaphor for inheriting the world, the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, the tenuous connection between quantum mechanics and eastern philosophy, "The Four Books" by Daniel K. Gardner, lawn sign culture and the commodification of belief systems, calling the President a "maniac," segues in comedy, and lame monologues in Ben Affleck's "The Town."
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