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Plato: Theory on Art and Style

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

In hindsight, much of Plato’s traumatic inspiration was formed through Socrates’ trial and execution, an arduous struggle for free interpretation, truth, and wisdom. This impact was great enough to turn Plato from political discourse and career relations (which he later defined in terms as politicians, those that tell you what you want to hear to achieve results, and statesmen, those who tell you what you need and may not wish to hear to support reformation) into philosophy leading up to his realizations of Idealism. (more…)

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Enslavement of Self

Saturday, March 24th, 2007

The price on our society of today’s marketing campaigns by big business is that we’ve effectively done the legwork in enslavement of ourselves to fulfilling that which pleasures us or moreso those pleasures which we have been told will fulfill our needs for entertainment, identity and self-indulgence. Every so often however, we realize what position we’ve put ourselves into and fight back, the most recent being the 1960s-1970s, where ‘revolution’ (coupled with extensive narcotics experimentation) was established, where a growing minority of participants rebelled against corporate structure, methods and the values of free market capitalism. (more…)

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