This is a man, who as a child has neither experienced nor been trained in the three ingredients of emotional life: Attention, Love and Affection. The word "Golem", in mediaeval Jewish legend, describes a sort of machine man, a robot. Some 50 years ago it was the subject of a famous novel, by Gustav Meysink, made into a film.
A man who has lived such a life as a child has not developed the "emotional antenna" or the "love-receiving apparatus", to be able to receive or to acknowledge emotional signals. Such men go from woman to woman and are often considered to be excellent lovers. These women do not realise that they receive not love but hate, not compassion but revenge, not commitment but a desire to escape, that it is not a mutual emotional experience of beauty but a one-sided desire to hurt, and even to kill.
You can read more about the idea of Golem at The Neurocritic.
2. "Google Maps Charged With Unfair Competition In France For Daring To Be Free"
from The daily irrelevant
3. Science that will save humanity:
Eighteen elementary school children assessed the pleasantness and perfumed aspect of familiar peers’ odors, sampled through tee shirts worn without modification of hygienic habits.
- via Improbable Research
4. Flight simulator for flies (robotics)- EurekAlert!
5. Out of box thinking by Chinese:
A group of Chinese primary school students who were tasked with supervising a civil service test proved their worth by catching 25 exam cheats.
- China Digital Times (CDT)
6. It had to come to this- sooner or later:
A 27-year-old Monroe College graduate is suing the New York school, seeking refund of the $70,000 worth of tuition she paid for a bachelor's degree because the college did not equip her for gainful employment following her graduation.
"She's angry," Thompson's mother told the Post. "She's very angry at her situation. She put all her faith in them, and so did I. They're not making an effort."
- UPI
7. Toyota leads Honda:
"Toyota researchers have unveiled a new humanoid robot that can run at 7 km/h, which is faster than Honda's humanoid robot ASIMO.'
- Slashdot
8. A catholic church banks in North Rhine-Westphalia invests its money in tobacco, arms and birth control pills- via The Daily Irrelevant
9. The Minnesota's Democratic Party issued a release challenging Pawlenty, a potential 2012 presidential candidate, for criticizing President Barack Obama at a Republican National Committee meeting- and linked it to the video: unfortunately, the link led people to a profane YouTube video of an elderly Chinese woman repeating obscenities.- Yahoo! News
10. And, finally, a Wal-Mart employee was bitten on the arm by a 44-year-old woman while confronting her about shoplifting- Yahoo! News
No comments:
Post a Comment