of what use is the art that does not ruthlessly seek to force life to imitate it?
-a truly great work of art will always deal with three things: sex, violence and death. It is my opinion that any work of art which deals not at all with this omnipresent trio of human universals is not worthy of one’s time or, indeed, of really being called a work of art at all. …
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Innumerable are the number of political compass tests which one can take online, from Playbuzz to PoliticalCompass.org to the 8 Values Github Test, all of which are sifted through and poured over, studied and analyzed by the takers thereof as if in the action of so doing they will confer some hidden and eldritch wisdom …
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On June 16th, 2017, in Central Park's Delacorte Theater, a production of Shakespeares' Julius Caesar that featured a Donald Trump look-a-like as the doomed protagonist (in the play Caesar's wife speaks with a eastern European accident) who is mercilessly stabbed to death by his former compatriots was disrupted by a young woman who shouted that …
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The visceral realities of the purpose and mission of art have primordial figuration in the history of human consciousness. Art at its core is a powerful entity and plays a role in not just aesthetic appeal but in the contemplative aspects of being. Philosophy and art in many ways share a kinship of sorts, both …
Putting aside many of the age-old questions concerning the validity of the concept of Human Nature one can with absolute certainty say that there are Human Universals, that is, Human Generalities. Everyone who exists was born and everyone who was born will die. Everyone feels the pangs of hunger and thirst, of dread and envy, jealousy …
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Gunvald woke in the dark and buried the brigand upon the northern hill opposite the shepherd's encampment and departed from the old vaquero wordlessly, before his waking, as the halcyon sphere drifted up across the high, jagged peaks of the far mountain. He made his way over the thin, reedy grass from the northern hill …
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I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never …
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Salutations, dear reader. The Logos Club now has it's very own online newspaper or, if you prefer, e-paper, entitled The Logos Daily. The paper will be updated twice daily and features articles from the site as well as a collection of writings from all over the internet concerning the very same topics covered by this website, …
