An interesting question

[Parhelion Palou]

24 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

https://secondlife.com/destination/viktoria-luise-museum-of-art-in-kudrow

Unfortunately, that one is gone due to loss of funding. The group behind it is still working on a museum that's a smaller scale. I don't know what the status is.

 

[Nextio]

It probably would be less popular than other venues, but i don't see anything wrong with that.  People come to SL to escape from the real world which includes philosophical thoughts and discussion.  Ironically, the OP is a bit narcissistic for dismissing other people's activities as if they are somehow inferior for their choices.  😉

[Scylla Rhiadra]

1 hour ago, Nimue Galatea said:

Thank you for showing me my nearsightedness while not making me feel bad about it.

I don't think you're "nearsighted" at all, nor should you feel "bad" about asking a good question. It's one that gets asked a lot in RL too.

In fact, I was reading today a book about the history of the discipline of "English studies." It includes the description of social critique coming from within the scholarly profession, complete with copious and elegant quotations,  bewailing the "philistinism" of the age, the growth of consumerism and commercialism, and the coarsening of public intellectual discourse . . . all dating from about 120 years ago. So you see, you are in good company, and there really is nothing new under the sun.

Most of the things I used to "do" and "make" in Second Life, back in the good ol' days, addressed the more intellectual side of things. I ran a bookstore and sold "books" -- well, if I sold a couple of dozen copies of Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, that was enough to make it a run-away best seller! And I made exhibits about things (mostly feminist things) that attracted visitors by the tens! (I also made chicken coops. Don't ask. They attracted mostly chickens.)

That's all fine. Pretty much everyone has sex, or needs to engage sometimes in fun but meaningless social play, but not everyone is interested reading a Victorian poem, or learning about how feminism focuses upon community-building. Those, and things like them, have a small but enormously important audience, and we'd be lost without them . . . just as we'd be pretty unhappy without sex or "mindless" banter. They are all part of being human, right?

[Jerilynn Lemon]

On 3/30/2019 at 9:48 AM, Nimue Galatea said:

Ponder this. And don't hate me for asking.

If I were to build and open a small museum dedicated to Carl Sagan, his greatest musings, his life, and his guidance for us as a species (so sorely needed at this juncture in the history of humanity), would it not stay somewhere really far down the line, in terms of traffic? While places dedicated to sex and mindless shopping would infinitely stay at #1? Higher spheres of thought - place #100. Vanity and narcissism - #1. What does that say about us as people?

For what it is worth, I'd drop in and check it out.

Antenna TV has old Tonight Show reruns and the late Doctor is often a featured guest. His ability to articulate and explain his reasoning and thought process blows me away. I never read his book "Contact" but have watched the movie countless times. It alone makes me think of what is the line between faith and scientific belief. Keep in mind, I am not a religious  person by any stretch ("I swear..."), but do have my own personal thoughts. An earlier mention comparing a Carl Sagen museum to the International Spaceflight museum is fair. I've dropped into it a number of times just looking around and wondering if it is/was underwritten by the folks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena (I think it is).

Someone did a presentation of "Titanic" and there was Berlin 1920's(?), both cool sites to drop in and experience but since closed.

SL could always use some intellectual places to visit.

[Scylla Rhiadra]

2 minutes ago, Jerilynn Lemon said:

Someone did a presentation of "Titanic" and there was Berlin 1920's(?), both cool sites to drop in and experience but since closed.

I'm not sure about the Titanic, but Berlin 1929 (or whatever it is called now) is still very much alive and well, and, as its owner and creator Jo Yardley reminded me only today in another thread, about to celebrate it's 10th anniversary in SL.

 

[Jerilynn Lemon]

16 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

I'm not sure about the Titanic, but Berlin 1929 (or whatever it is called now) is still very much alive and well, and, as its owner and creator Jo Yardley reminded me only today in another thread, about to celebrate it's 10th anniversary in SL.

 

That's it. Berlin 1929.

I recall trying to visit it a while ago but was told it was not found, so I assumed it closed up shop. If it still exists (das goot), I'll have to do a search for a new LM. I deleted the old one.

[Parhelion Palou]

4 minutes ago, Jerilynn Lemon said:

That's it. Berlin 1929.

That would be 1920s Berlin (http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/1920s Berlin Project/233/224/1929)

[Donna Underall]

14 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

...perks!

Have you seen this?

https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/10/14/richard-feynman-graphic-novel-biography-ottoviani/ 

[Fionalein]

1 hour ago, Donna Underall said:

Have you seen this?

https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/10/14/richard-feynman-graphic-novel-biography-ottoviani/ 

OMG Must Have!

[Madelaine McMasters]

3 hours ago, Donna Underall said:

Have you seen this?

https://www.brainpickings.org/2011/10/14/richard-feynman-graphic-novel-biography-ottoviani/ 

Thanks for pointing me there, Donna! While I don't find the graphic novel compelling, I certainly enjoyed these videos which were linked at the begging of the page...

 

 

 

 

I have, over my lifetime, collected a great deal of audio/video of Feynman and most of his written works. His own voice is so powerful and delightful that attempts to condense it in something like a graphic novel fall flat for me, though I'm happy people do such things in hopes of introducing him to a wider audience.

Edited April 2, 2019 by Madelaine McMasters

[iamyourneighbour]

On 3/31/2019 at 2:48 AM, Nimue Galatea said:

Ponder this. And don't hate me for asking.

If I were to build and open a small museum dedicated to Carl Sagan, his greatest musings, his life, and his guidance for us as a species (so sorely needed at this juncture in the history of humanity), would it not stay somewhere really far down the line, in terms of traffic? While places dedicated to sex and mindless shopping would infinitely stay at #1? Higher spheres of thought - place #100. Vanity and narcissism - #1. What does that say about us as people?

Just have a sex toy called "Carl Sagan" and the user will inevitably ask "Who is CarL Sagan? Why is this double ended subway sandwich named Carl Sagan?" and have a history attached to a note inside the sex toy all about Carl Sagan.