Moral Choice
Moral choiceis comparable to the construction of a work of art. As there are no aesthetic values apriori,there are values which will appearin due course in the coherence of the picture— in the relation between the will to create and the finished work. One cannot judge a painting until it is done.likewise with morality.In…
Against Idealism
The straight line is Godless and immoral –Hundertwasser You won’t find a river that decided a straight line was the best path to the open sea. You won’t find a vine that grew straight up to reach the sun. You won’t find a single organic object on this earth that traces a perfect line. “Nothing…
The Fight Underway
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain. If greatness are in conjunction in a man or a woman It is enough… The fact will prevail through the universe… But the gaggery of gilt of a million years Will not prevail. Who troubles himself about his ornaments or fluency is lost. This…
How Easy To Make A Ghost
How to Kill by Keith Douglas Under the parabola of a ball, a child turning into a man, I looked into the air too long. The ball fell in my hand, it sang in the closed fist: Open Open Behold a gift designed to kill. Now in my dial of glass appears the soldier…
Lucifer Rising
The discussion touching on Platonic idealism was fascinating. Who is not captivated by an ideal, gleaming in transparent purity? I certainly am. Would I kill for an ideal? Or to put it more plainly would I commit murder to advance an ideal? I probably would, as many have. I am admittedly a standard issue…
On Interpretation
So you’ve run out of things to say! I imagine that a reader could react to this “throw-away” pop tune for the post of today. I am often inspired by the challenge of writing about an art form. Rock and roll is within that wide circle of made objects that we refer to as…
