Kierkegaard
FOMO’s not the whole story – nor is it new.
The Boston Magazine this week published a history of “Fear of Missing Out“, tracing its beginnings, like a careful epidemiologist, back to 2004, at Harvard Business School. Of greater interest were its comments on FOBO, Fear of a Better Option (more precisely, Fear that a Better Option Exists, but FOBO’s easier than FBOE, so there it is):
But this mentality had its costs: McGinnis and his group found they couldn’t commit to anything. Working with the rudimentary tools available to them (cell phones and address books), they developed complex algorithms to plan…
If there is a band that has been a bit overplayed lately, Bastille would be […]
It’s become fashionable in some Protestant circles to talk about inspiring virtue not through dry […]
Believe it or not, we’re down to the penultimate video from last month’s conference in […]
We asked those who are giving “mini-talks” this Friday (4/19) at our 6th Annual Mockingbird […]
Reading Mary Karr’s fantastic memoir Lit, one quote in particular stuck out to me as beautifully […]
One of Mockingbird’s most distinctive features is the repetition. Like Christmas itself, we’re trying to […]
A bit of a follow-up to last week’s fantastic post on Kierkegaard and imputation. It’s […]
We’re embarking on one of Kierkegaard’s bizarre thought-experiments here, on the love of God in […]
From his Sickness unto Death, a passage where Kierkegaard compares spiritual sickness – i.e. despair […]
Somewhat recently, Gordon Marino, a professor of philosophy and director of the Hong Kierkegaard Library […]
From Discourses at the Communion on Fridays: I would make no attempt to dismay men, […]