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The Fish-Eyed Stare
http://fisheyedstare.blogspot.com/
Evaluating the merits of society, culture, art, technology, civilization and human relations with the eyes of one striving to see through and over the thin layer of horror situated between the sea and sky, image and reality, with a sense of nausea and curiosity.
- Added on: Feb 7th, 2008
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Shayne
- Listed in: Society Activism
- Tags: art Culture Opinion literature philosophy media
Recent Posts
The Last Knowledge
From A. K. Coomaraswamy, The Transformation of Nature in Art, Dover Publications, p. 63:What is knowledge? Threefold: (1) of particulars and generals, sensible, empirical, literal, indicative, samvyavahārika-pratyakṣa, (2) of universals, rational...
Alan Watts - A Conversation With Myself
Distinguishing the Grades
It is important for the discriminating autodidact or intellectual seeker not to take for granted the conventional point of view which is the cornerstone of modernity. The scientism today president over Occidental and increasingly Oriental society im...
"You Can’t Do That!"
While perusing Steve Pavlina's blog, I found this little snippet of observational wisdom:Apparently if you try anything that goes against the mainstream, it means you’re being fanatical, crazy, and deluded. Supposedly common sense dictates that we ...
Richard Dawkins on Eugenics
IN THE 1920s and 1930s, scientists from both the political left and right would not have found the idea of designer babies particularly dangerous - though of course they would not have used that phrase. Today, I suspect that the idea is too dangerou...
Civilization as Rasa
To hear it told by today's bourgeoisie pseudo-intellectual "consumer of art" or liberal arts school graduates whose "career" consists of producing material for museums and galleries (art for arts sake--dead art--as opposed to art for the sake of cult...
