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“If an education system’s goal is to educate and prepare its recipients for the real world, then why are the graduates so uneducated, and under prepared?”
-Demitri Sconavar
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John: “how do the leaders of our society not understand that what they’re doing is immoral and violates the human rights of a group of individuals?”
Jane: “Demitri Sconavar’s Paradox”
The Paradox of Minimalism may be summed up in one sentence:
"If less is more, how little is too much?"
There are NIL Google results for that phrase, a quotation now attributable to Possom Cohen, New Zealand.
Time becomes more valuable as one ages. This is a classic example of the Paradox of Minimalism.
The Paradox of Minimalism is related to the passage of time and to The Holiday Paradox.
Why Does Time Seem to Speed Up with Age?
July 1, 2016
Scientific American
Bonnie Raitt addressed the passage of time and the Paradox of Minimalism in her song "Nick Of Time."
Bonnie Raitt - Nick Of Time
"I see my folks are getting on
And I watch their bodies change
I know they see the same in me
And it makes us both feel strange
No matter how you tell yourself
It's what we all go through
Those lines are pretty hard to take
When they're staring back at you
Oh Oh Oh, scared you'll run out of time
When did the choices get so hard
With so much more at stake
Life gets mighty precious
When there's less of it to wa-a-a-aste
Mmm-m-m-m-m-m
Mmmmmmm, scared you'll run out of time"
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There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life - full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.”
― Woody Allen, Annie Hall: Screenplay
The Paradox of Minimalism is epitomized in the opening sentence of this 2016 New York Times article:
"It has become an ostentatious ritual of consumerist self-sacrifice; people who have it all now seem to prefer having nothing at all."
The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’
By Kyle Chayka
July 26, 2016
NYTimes
The Paradox of Minimalism also describes some very rich people giving away most of their material possessions.
“The richer you are, the less you have.”
Another ironic example of the Paradox of Minimalism is the recent KonMari decluttering craze:
konmari.com
A theory when friendliness or hospitality and privacy don't go hand in hand
A perfect example of friendliness paradox is the collective culture: People from collective culture are friendly, but they're sneaking into other's businesses
A thing that you think of before you go to sleep that keeps you up to two in the morning, while you despise the thing that made you think it.
What happens when Pinocchio says his nose will now grow?
-Brought to you by Rayne Jenkins
"OH MIIII GOOODDDD" FRIGGING BEDTIME PARADOX
Schrodinger's brad, its a paradox of every time he tries to get out of a situation by talking, He keeps digging himself away from winning the argument getting more dirt on him in the process
Fuck you no in not putting the brad paradox in the example
He is a so2 manager.... currently ranked 6th in Asia and a semi professional so2 player
Baap se roj maar khata hu-paradox so2
Created by the youtuber TheOdd1sOut, The DreamWorks Trequal Paradox is a phenomenon where a DreamWorks sequel is as good (or better) as the original, but the 3rd movie is sub-par.
However, there's one franchise that doesn't follow the DreamWorks Trequal Paradox™ and it haunts my dreams (works).