HeyJaredStranger Worlds
We share a planet, but live in different worlds. Explore how to live in these stranger worlds with 3-minute reflections on our principles for a good life, shared liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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- Sep 29, 2026
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The Age of Technological Reproduction (opens the original)
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“Just as water, gas, and electricity are brought into our houses from far off to satisfy our needs in response to a minimal effort, so we shall be supplied with visual or auditory images, which will appear and disappear at a simple movement of the hand, hardly more than a sign.”– Paul Valéry<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZICu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F
The Brothel in Rossenstrasse (opens the original)
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“I live as I do because I have no need to work and no great talent for art; therefore my explorations are usually in the realm of human experience, specifically sexual experience, though I understand the dangers of self-involvement in this as in any other activity” – Rickhardt von Bek<
The Soul Ajar (opens the original)
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“The Soul should always stand ajar That if the Heaven inquire He will not be obliged to wait Or shy of troubling HerDepart, before the Host have slidThe Bolt unto the Door -- To search for the accomplished Guest, Her Visitor, no more --”– Emily Dickinson<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S7hE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpubl
The Beautiful and the Sublime (opens the original)
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“The beautiful is that which pleases universally, without a concept.” – Immanuel Kant<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="728" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bbzy!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressi
The Aesthetics of Rebellion (opens the original)
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“The feelings excited by improper art are kinetic, desire or loathing. Desire urges us to possess, to go to something; loathing urges us to abandon, to go from something. These are kinetic emotions. The arts which excite them, pornographical or didactic, are therefore improper arts. The esthetic emotion (I use the general term) is therefore static. The mind is arrested and raised above desire and loathing.” – James Joyce<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/i
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