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hero worship: pretense to reason and purpose
Our generation is in difficulties about its heroes. The individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age intends to be, has become a wraith. Heroes will not thrive in every moral climate, but that does not stop us … Continue reading
hunting for heroes
Our present period,at least in the Western world, is in difficulties about its heroes. Heroism, understood as courage in action, we can still recognize and applaud; but the individual hero, defined as the personification of what the age tends to … Continue reading
fanon: wretched by birth
Frantz Fanon. the theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. Dead for the past fifty years, there is still an audience… …The peasant, says Fanon, thinks in terms of armed struggle, of taking the land back from the foreigner, of … Continue reading
the little black bloc book
They don’t make them like they used to. The basic premise being the natural instinct for people is to cooperate, and make peace meaning we don’t need the state, the government, the judiciary, the police, and the military. Its a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Berkman, Ammon Hennacy, Dorothy Day, Dorothy Day Catholic Workers Movement, Emma Goldman, Gershom Scholem, Gustav Landauer, James Cameron, Luigi Galleani, Martin Buber, Maurice Friedman, Murray Bookchin, Rudolph Rocker, Sir Thomas More
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the new seekers
Aldous Huxley is to the negative or anti-utopia what Plato and Sir Thomas More combined are to the positive. We are apt to be less familiar with the Republic’s guardians and Utopia’s jeweled toys than we are with Brave New … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Andrew Potter, c.m. kornbluth, Frederick Pohl, George Orwell, Herbert Marcuse, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Horkheimer, Noam Chomsky, Paul Goodman, Ray Bradbury, Sir Thomas More, Slavoj Zizek, Theodor Adorno, William Tenn
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chilling in the city of the sun
People have always tried to imagine the world as it might become, dissatisfied as we are, with the world as it exists. … For a century after Thomas More there was no sign of significant new utopias. Then within a … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Francis Bacon New Atlantis, Heinrich Schickhardt, J.V. Andreae, J.V. Andreae Christianopolis, Jan van Eyck, Johann Valentin Andreae, John Heydon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Mignard painting, Sir Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Will Durant
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judging a cover by its book
Biblical prophecy is always a fascinating subject, dealing as it does with the hope of golden age, a repairing of the world, a making whole, a redemption mixed with the equal propensity for apocalyptic destruction. It predates the secular utopianism … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Christopher Hitchens, Dante Republic, Francis Bacon, Franz Kafka, Igal Hecht, Jonathan Swift, Kosher Jesus, Leonard Cohen, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Milan Kundera, Nicolas Poussin, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe, Richard Dawkins, Schmuley Boteach, Sir Thomas More, Walter Benjamin
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have utopia will travel
and to the nightmare. Dissatisfied with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become. Time, though, seems to have darkened out utopian visions in more ways than one…. For nearly two … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Francis Bacon, Francis Godwin, Francis Godwin Man in the Moone, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato, Plato and Diogenes, Plato Republic, Sir Thomas More
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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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right place wrong time
The winds that buffeted Erasmus of Rotterdam blew from more than one direction. One form of intolerance he might have withstood, but two were too many. That was the tragedy of Europe’s first liberal…. Erasmus is more than any other … Continue reading