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Overview

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  • Fluent in English; learning Spanish
  • 38, Male
  • Member since 2011
  • Works for the Museum of the City of New York, serve as a ...
  • Got my Masters in American History at the CUNY Graduate C...
  • From Hoboken, NJ, USA
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Help people realize, foster, and benefit from our mutual interdependence through art, experience, information, and love.

ABOUT ME

I'm on a quest to explore myself, the world, and how the two fit together. I love to learn, am eager to experience new things and places, and like to surround myself with people who do the same.

PHILOSOPHY

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd" - Voltaire

Pragmatism, pure and simple. I judge an idea, or action, strictly by its consequences. This is my epistemology. Since I only have one perspective, I need to get other people's opinions and perspectives to get a fuller understanding of ideas and actions' consequences. There is a moral philosophy involved here, as well as an epistemological one. Once we do, we should be able to say whether we agree or not with it, and there should be political mechanisms for doing so. This is where politics comes in, namely social democracy. Suffusing it all is humanism - a respect for mankind and its potential, an a drive to help us reach that potential through creative, passionate, intelligent, cooperative action.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

Host N' Travel

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've been hosted by a few folks in London and Milwaukee, and have shown some folks around NYC as well. I'm loving it.

Interests

Music - mostly Baroque and mid-century Jazz, with some proto-punk/funk thrown in.
Movies - intense dramas with lighter comedies thrown in. Chinatown mixed with Superbad.
Poetry - W.H. Auden, Whitman, and Dylan Thomas top the list.
Architecture - Richardsonian Romanesque

  • arts
  • poetry
  • architecture
  • politics
  • movies
  • traveling
  • music
  • jazz

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Bach, Yo La Tengo, The Sonics, and Bill Evans gives you an ideaBooks: mostly poetry and non-fiction. WH Auden, Baudelaire, and Walt Whitman for the former, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs, Thomas Kloppenberg, Thomas Bender, and William James for the latterMovies - anything by Terrence Mallick, Kurosawa, for starters

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Gotten in a fistfight with a racist, homophobic priest on the subway.

Teach, Learn, Share

The only way I can reach my potential is if those around me are reaching theirs, and vice-versa. Thus, there is no division between the individual good and the common good - they are utterly interdependent. It is a question of finding the right balance.

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