{"id":87794,"date":"2015-07-15T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=87794"},"modified":"2015-07-15T10:21:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T14:21:12","slug":"solve-your-problems-with-symmetry-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/15\/solve-your-problems-with-symmetry-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Solve Your Problems with Symmetry, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_87796\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/115479pv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-87796\" class=\"wp-image-87796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/115479pv.jpg\" alt=\"115479pv\" width=\"600\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/115479pv.jpg 959w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/115479pv-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-87796\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Shaker Meetinghouse in New Lebanon, Columbia County, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Philosophers are always telling us what to do and why to do it\u2014telling us, in essence, how to rescue ourselves from childhood, how to grow up. For Vivian Gornick, their advice is lacking in what a college counselor might call real-world experience: \u201cThe Hebrew philosopher Hillel urged that we do unto others as we would have others do unto us. Kant urged, similarly, that we not make instrumental use of one another. With all the good will in the world\u2014and remarkable numbers of people have it\u2014we have not been able to make these noble recommendations carry the day. Not because we are lazy or venal or incompetent but because <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonreview.net\/books-ideas\/vivian-gornick-susan-neiman-why-grow-up\" target=\"_blank\">most of us live in a state of inner conflict that makes purity of behavior an impossibility<\/a>. Every day of our lives we transgress against our own longing to act well: our tempers are ungovernable, our humiliations unforgettable, our fantasies ever present \u2026 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in ill-advised marketing campaigns: the Australian publisher of the new Lisbeth Salander novel has taken branding to a disturbingly literal level in its quest to find \u201ca female fan prepared to \u2018donate\u2019 her back for three months. This would have involved <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/jul\/14\/was-tatvertising-the-nadir-of-book-marketing-campaigns?CMP=twt_books%5Egdnbooks\" target=\"_blank\">being adorned with her very own Dragon Tattoo for advertising purposes<\/a>.\u201d The so-called tatvertising campaign sought to find someone who could \u201chandle the pain, just like Lisbeth Salander.\u201d The publisher has since canceled the promotion, but there\u2019s nothing stopping true fans from pursuing masochism to please their corporate masters.<\/li>\n<li>Does the art market depress you? The answer should be a resounding yes\u2014no one likes plundering plutocrats. But here\u2019s a thought: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/a-fearful-frenzy-the-art-market-now\" target=\"_blank\">you can probably just ignore the whole sordid commercial aspect of the thing<\/a>. \u201cSensing that people will one day look back on this era as a freakish episode in cultural history, why not get a head start on viewing it that way? Detach and marvel. Meanwhile, art goes on making meaning for those who are rich only in the desire and leisure to engage with it \u2026 To expect the running-scared super-rich to behave benevolently, in regards to art, is plainly foolish.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>So you\u2019re conceiving a building in which the sexes are segregated\u2014congratulations! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/07\/13\/gillian-darley\/separation-by-symmetry\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Shakers have just the kind of architectural design you need<\/a>. The key is extreme symmetry, \u201cin which one side meticulously mirrors the other, door for door, stair for stair, each fitting answering another \u2026 The control implicit in the design goes further. Men and women worked in different trades, so rarely encountered one another in the workplace \u2026 The Shakers perfected what they called a \u2018living building\u2019: a settlement that served their purposes while also reinforcing their separation from non-believing outsiders.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Critical thinking remains an integral part of an education in the liberal arts\u2014and a vague, endlessly broad term, with no real applicability. What is it? How do we use it? For the answers to these and other unanswerable questions, all you have to do is go to college. But even there the term is on watch now. \u201cOne of my colleagues adamantly rejected the inclusion of an allegedly trendy catchphrase (\u2018experiential learning\u2019) as part of our mission statement, and insisted that we use \u2018critical thinking\u2019 instead. My colleague was ostensibly rejecting the professionalization of college education, in favor of the more properly academic priority of intellect. This preference, however, struck me as curious, as it revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbooks.org\/\/blog\/thinking-critically-about-critical-thinking\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018critical thinking\u2019\u2014whatever cluster of ideas or intellectual ideals hide behind the phrase\u2014had become something for which we felt nostalgia<\/a>.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophers are always telling us what to do and why to do it\u2014telling us, in essence, how to rescue ourselves from childhood, how to grow up. 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