weltschmerz freitag

“When from our better selves we have too long
Been parted by the hurrying world, and droop,
Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired,
How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.”
—William Wordsworth, The Prelude — via @sonjabl

“If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.” —Abraham Lincoln — via The Marginalian

Estonia: The country inoculating against disinformation

Teaching older people media literacy remains a challenge. “I’m not worried about youth. I’m worried about 50-somethings,” says Maia Klaassen, development specialist at the Institute of Social Sciences in Tartu. “When you haven’t come across algorithmic models, you don’t understand how and why you see things and why other people don’t see the same things.”

“Whenever you ask ‘Is there a German word for it’, the answer is always that, yes, there is. That word is weltschmerz. It’s always weltschmerz, because the feeling that makes you ask ‘is there a German word for it’ in the first place is an expression of weltschmerz in itself.” —@jwiechers

“The Mask of Sorrow is a monument located on a hill above Magadan, Russia, commemorating the many prisoners who suffered and died in the Gulag prison camps in the Kolyma region of the Soviet Union during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.” —Rabih Alameddine