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consciousness III, IV, V, …
…Nothing will ever be as nice again, or as good, as it was when one was seventeen. The paradoxes and contradictions of the post-industrial “occupy” culture, the anti-one-percenters, is a kind of resignation and despair that so many pleasures are … Continue reading
tomorrow: not rotating on the great cosmic wheel
The modern future was born, according to one precise dating, in the year 1770, when a Parisian hack writer named Louis-Sebastien Mercier wrote a book called L’an 2440 in which he set out to predict the blissful state of human … Continue reading
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Tagged Alvin Toffler, Camille Flammarion, Francis Bacon, Futurology, Louis-Sebastien Mercier, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Plato, Robert Redfield anthropologist, Saint Augustine, Voltaire Micromegas
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The future: it ain’t what it used to be
Human beings, it has been said, are the only creatures that think about the future, but the individual has conceived of it in remarkably different ways.The future is a relic, an industry, a myth, a commodity. For all our scientific … Continue reading
WASTELAND:THE EARTH IS FIXED AT THE CENTER OF THE EGO
In this decayed hole among the mountains, In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home. It has no windows, and the door swings, Dry … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Anthony Marr, Carl Jung, Copernicus, Corrado Balducci, Dante Alighieri, Francisco Goya, Galileo, Georges Lemaitre, Giordano Bruno, Guy Consolmagno, Ikenna Dieke, Jacques Derrida, Jaroslav Pelikan, Johannes Kepler, John J. Kessler, John P. Anderson, Joseph Conrad, Lee Spiegel, Martin Buber, Matteo D'Amico, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Wilberg, Picasso, Raymond Lull, Saint Augustine, Scott Horton, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Taylor Adkins, Taylor Adkins Speculative heresy, Umberto Eco, Uri Davis, Zaccharia Sitchin, Zotan Lendvai
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HAIL TO THE CHIEF:THE EMPEROR WEARS GOLD & HAS NO CLOTHES
”The prevailing soft multiculturalism of our times has made the phrase “the fall of Rome” a surprisingly controversial one. It’s much preferred to talk about “transformation” rather than “decline and fall.” In this “transformationist” view, the High Classical period of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Goldsworthy, Alaric the Goth, Alec Guinness, Alexander Knights, Anthony Mann The fall of the Roman Empire, Attila the Hun, Augustine The City of God, Bryan Ward Perkins, Caravaggio, Dante Alighieri, David Frum, Edward Gibbon, frumforum.com, Gothic historian Jordanes, James mason, Jean-Jacques Aillagon, John Landis, Jon Landis, Jordanes, Late Antiquity, Peter Heather, Priskos, Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome, Sam Bronston, Sophia Loren, Stilicho the Vandal
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DUSTUP IN ROME: THEY AGREE TO DISAGREE
“The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she … Continue reading
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Tagged Alec Guiness, Ara Coeli Church Rome, Arch of Titus, Ceasar Borgia, Church of Aracoeli, Dante, Dante Alighieri, Edward Gibbon, Fall of the Roman Empire 1964, Fall of the Roman Empire Movie, Henry Adams, History of Rome, Julius Ceasar, Machiavelli, Machiavelli The Prince, Mussolini, Pope Alexander VI, Pope Leo X, Saint Augustine, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Temple Menorah
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PARADISE LOST
On looking back on 2009, one of the most telling signposts was the 40th anniversary of Woodstock Music and Arts Festival. The film ”Taking Woodstock” appeared to be filled with inaccuracies, stereotypes and false archetypes which folded back onto each … Continue reading
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Tagged Ang Lee, Artie Kornfeld, Charles Reich, George Harrison, Jerry Garcia, Jesse Helms, Jim Morrison, John Lennon, Melissa Anderson, Michael Lang, Rick Griffin, Saint Anthony, Saint Augustine, Taking Woodstock, The Grateful Dead, The Incredible String Band, The Village Voice, Theodore Roszak, Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, Woodstock nation, Yoko Ono
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