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a little truth to power
The pop culture hacker. Really a post-modern artist and a critic of capitalism, the entire apparatus of the Evil Empire in all its ugly glory and self rationalizations and justifications for the dirty deeds and power to make others do … Continue reading
utopia: realms of Nowhere
Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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diogenes: a dog’s life
Diogenes. And so he lived. Like a dog some said, because he cared nothing for privacy and other human conventions, and because he showed his teeth and barked at those whom he disliked. Now he was lying in the sunlight, … Continue reading
diogene: shining a light
At Corinth, in Greece, there lived a wise man whose name was Diogenes. Men came from all parts of the land to see him and hear him talk. But wise as he was, he had some very queer ways.He slept … Continue reading
dogging it out: every doge has their day
Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic. He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched, done his business like a … Continue reading
HOLD ME MY DADDY SO I CAN LIFT YOU UP
” Hold me my daddy, I never felt lower than dirt on the floor. I say hold me my daddy, I never felt like crying oceans before. If this means war, why are we in it? Might’ve fired off a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Diogenes, Fielding Tom Jones, Freud, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Ilya Repin, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, James Mill, John Stuart Mill, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Michael Ferguson, Mike and the Mechanics, Plato, Polymathica, Sigmund Freud, Socrates, Teddy Roosevelt, thepolymathicablog.blogspot.com, Tom Jones, Turgenev, W.C. Fields, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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