It's quite fashionable to say that the educational system is broken. It's not broken. It's wonderfully constructed. It's just that we don't need it anymore.
Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting it into pamphlets. We're doing a publicity show. We're becoming symbols.
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.
Sharks are among the most perfectly constructed creatures in nature. Some forms have survived for two hundred million years.
NATO was constructed on the - with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?
I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Creativity can release you from the limitations that the world has constructed around you; the everyday, mundane, 9-5 jail cell where everybody is waiting for the weekend to party so they can get outside of their head.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.