Tag Archives: Pieter Bruegel the Elder

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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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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signed into law, sealed and delivered…

Appearance at the expense of reality, as a gesture to obscure and deny reality? Rather in the context of post-modernism, the society of the spectacle, where we give up on external as well as internal reality, treating the two of … Continue reading

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throwing rocks at inner syntax

The existence of evil in a world under divine supervision is a uestion that has long haunted humanity, especially when one focuses on the Holy Land itself. It leads one t openly question what entered the Almighty’s mind when he … Continue reading

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price anxiety

One of the fascinating consequences of an inflationary world is the strong emotions it generates for material objects. Although it does promote  competitive buying of intrinsically valuable goods, from houses to jewels, it also provokes a hatred of waste. Rather, … Continue reading

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temple mount theatrics

As Barack Obama prepares to ascend from the friendly skies into the illogically rational pot of stew known as the Middle East, perhaps he should have a fallback plan to cancel. The patients do not seem to be responding to … Continue reading

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bruegel: sober philosophy

In a more extreme sense than most great painters, Pieter Bruegel the Elder exists at two levels. At the popular one, his fantastic drolleries and his pictures of rollicking peasants are taken at face value and bought as popular commodity … Continue reading

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bruegel: keeping identity with nature

For Pieter Bruegel the Elder, man is faulty, he is potentially noble, and that his existence is legitimized by his position as an integral but not central unit of the cosmos- although not within such arbitrarily neat compartments. Rejecting the … 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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