CURRENT MISSION

To slowly legitimate my dilettantism

ABOUT ME

I'm a graduate student in Geography at the University of Wisconsin. I study landscape history, thinking about how people lived in the environments of the past and how we might live in those of the future.

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PHILOSOPHY

"You have heard it (my Friend!) as a common Saying, that Interest governs the World. But, I believe, whoever looks narrowly into the Affairs of it, will find, that Passion, Humour, Caprice, Zeal, Faction, and a thousand other Spring which are counter to Self-Interest, have as considerable a part in the Movements of this Machine. There are more Wheels and Counter-Poises in this Engine than are easily imagin’d. ‘Tis of too complex a kind, to fall under one simple View, or be explain’d thus briefly in a word or two. The Studiers of this Mechanism must have a very partial Eye, to overlook all other Motions besides those of the lowest and narrowest Compass. ‘Tis hard, that in the Plan or Description of this Clock-work, no Wheel or Balance shou’d be allow’d on the side of the better and more enlarg’d Affections; that nothing shou’d be understood to be done in Kindness or Generosity; nothing in pure good-Nature or Friendship, or thro any social or natural Affection of any kind: when, perhaps, the main Springs of this Machine will be found to be either these very natural Affections themselves, or a compound kind deriv’d from them, and retaining more than one half of their Nature."
—Anthony Ashley Cooper, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury

Interests

Mixed bags

• geography
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

http://www.last.fm/user/garrettnelson
http://mubi.com/users/383348

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Albania, United Kingdom, United States

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