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Comment on Counter-Culture: Then & Now by BILL

BILL — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:20:47 +0000

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Comment on Counter-Culture: Then & Now by seeker

seeker — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:58:45 +0000

Philip
Churchill is correct as far as he goes but there is still more in the world of stupidity and that is mental instability. Yes George Carlin is right that Americans are stupid but this is not enough for these are a people without history, language or philosophy and thus have no past, no voice and no thinking.
This is a gone society like Athens and Rome though we should survive as well as England, or France or Spain and other earlier empires. The poetry for this land is division which is just beginning and still stand with the judgment that Lincoln was one of our worst president which is saying a lot given the low quality of them all.
The Counter-Culture points to a post-modern world were madness is taken for granted as is chaos and confusion. It is not a matter of embracing but rather one of letting go. Order is occasional, haphazard and strange. But most need it so systems and images will continue with little benefit for the masses.

Corporations run this show now - for how long ???
Pax/Love Vwad

Comment on Counter-Culture: Then & Now by Philip

Philip — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:16:47 +0000

“Now what?” The species isn’t going to make wise choices until (as Churchill once said) all the other alternatives have (decisively failed). So get your bermuda shorts on and head for Kodiak Island. It’s a wonderful day at this shrinking beach…

Comment on Five Films in Search of an Identity by Denny Doherty

Denny Doherty — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 08:58:23 +0000

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Comment on Five Films in Search of an Identity by Vwadek

Vwadek — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:04:06 +0000

Your interpretations are fine but with art there as many as there are thoughtful members of the audience. One I like besides yours, is the water and nature against the machines offering the contrast between the beat world and that of the machine age.
Pax/love Vwad

Comment on Conservatives and Confusion by Vwadek

Vwadek — Fri, 07 May 2010 22:00:11 +0000

Philip:
The Calvin school is a problematic issue for historians of ideas because in fact he was and was always a lawyer - ever try to read a lawyer and theologian? His crowd was bankers and moreover, the money crowd did not have as yet a theology for them keeping them Christians (ha!). The Roman church had a policy of not allowing the reading of the bible - appropriate since we do not have much of it prior to the 10th century. This in my mind, is the end of Christianity but great for the new business circle coming to roost as our present crises here and Europe prove - Thank you bankers.
It is not Darwin per se but rather, a later writer who distorted his thinking and created a remarkable prejudice. Stupid and popular, but then what is new?
As for Straussians and that school that argues that greed is good I only say there are seven deadly sins and that pride is high on the list to get one to hell - if they believe in it.
My view - if you want money and are willing the risk, as I said when an undergraduate, steal from banks - the F.B.I. employer does not get the greatest help I am sad to say. Money is for the empty and stupid to fill the pointlessness of their lives. I’ve met a few - wow are they dumb.
Natural science is for the literate and not the rich.
pax/love Vwad

Comment on Conservatives and Confusion by Philip

Philip — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:34:12 +0000

But how does one approach the Straussians? They are the intellectual heart of the neocons whom have no reason to worship otherworldly gods or grossly misunderstood natural science.

Comment on Conservatives and Confusion by Philip

Philip — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:18:29 +0000

I very much appreciate your division of most contemporary conservatives into two camps: Calvinist and (Social) Darwinist. While it is difficult to generalize about political labels, this division seems to me to be of great importance because each is really a different ideological POV and should provoke a very different response. The Calvinist, regardless of their particular interpretation of their faith, has to deal with the New Testament and the moral ethic of love and compassion taught by the gospels. Not that this lesson is clear or consistent, but at least a kernel of a moral debate seems possible, and on their own turf. As for the Darwinist, I think the argument actually a heck of a lot easier. They want to use nature to justify themselves, yet they don’t get that nature doesn’t have an opinion, either way. A strange case of reification on their part. If the Darwinists want the biologically fit to rule the world, lets just hand it over to the bacteria. Oh, that’s right, we won’t have to. They will, one day, just take it anyway and they won’t even have to think to do it.

Comment on Five Films in Search of an Identity by Philip

Philip — Sun, 02 May 2010 08:30:47 +0000

Vwadek,

I’d like to hear your thoughts about the last image of Easy Rider, the scene where the paved road is parallel and juxtaposed with the river. Is this an allusion to the the natural versus the mechanical path? Or is this more akin to conclusion of Huck Finn — that there is never any physical way to escape the corruption and conflict of “sivilization”

Comment on Once the Ego Cracks by seeker

seeker — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:23:15 +0000

Art transcends self and ego and all communion is limited What is created is not what is observed which is another art.

Others can never have a true sense of one’s self even that most interior since there is only becoming and by the time you may notice your self you have changed into whatever will be next and it will never be grasped completly by you.

No self can ever be observed by another - only a frame is acquired.