Tag Archives: Hieronymous Bosch

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The problem with the concept of the word evil, is that it resembles a black hole, a field that stretches toward infinity. The world is short of many things, but the supply of evil-doers and their willingness to act is … Continue reading

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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

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spinoza of supermarket street: keeping the rules?

Imperfection. Logic, and a strong dose of rationality dictates that God, according to the Jewish definition, is non existent, or at best, absent when needed most. Yet mixed with this certainty of doubt is often a personal belief, a sort … Continue reading

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homegrown or home blown: no name on the bullet

We wish to glorify War — the only health giver of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman. We wish to destroy the museums, the libraries, to … Continue reading

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the chosen: wandering decisions

Tyranny of the majority. Its a stock character today, but is the perhaps dominant cultural aesthetic of our time: the endless variations on the neurotic and hyperarticulate, as well as sexually obsessed individual; throw in issues of class and assimilation … Continue reading

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drunk with intellectual passion

Everyone has a Golden Calf inside of them, the need of worshipping and staying attached to forms, to feed the form as it were. And the difference between building something more durable and divine as opposed to allowing these forms … Continue reading

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bruegel: too busy for the cosmic rhythm

…The only concept of the nature of things that seems never to have occurred to Bruegel is our objective scientific one by which the cosmos becomes something physically explicable, and hence godless. As for Bruegel’s god, his religious affiliation can … Continue reading

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bruegel: cripple creek

At the popular level, Bruegel’s fantastic drolleries are taken at face value. A curious and delightful painter. At his true level, when these obvious charms are recognized as nothing but a pictorial skin, Bruegel is discoverable  as an extraordinarily complex … Continue reading

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bruegel: human foibles

…A sober philosophy of man’s place in nature… Bruegel’s recognition of human foibles never reduced him to bitterness, or at least never to any discernible in his group. From the mass of it we can deduce that he regarded misanthropy … Continue reading

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fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs

…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma:  The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with  the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading

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