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A New Zealand PSA of Unusual Rhetorical Power
Wow. This works on so many levels. It humanizes the strangers to one another; it points up our liabilities to impatience and misjudgments of risk and distance; and it vividly dramatizes the consequences of casual bad habits, distraction, and inattention. A … Continue reading
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Tagged ads, behavior, cars, crashes, drama, existentialism, Greek tragedy, new zealand, psychology
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Hubris, Chris Christie, and Greek Tragedy
Not just Democrats and far-right Republicans, but playwrights and screenwriters, will be jumping all over Chris Christie’s “Bridgegate” scandal. Why? Because Chris Christie is caught in a whirlpool of hubris, and the ancient Greeks tragedians have taught us how such … Continue reading
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Tagged Bridgegate, Chris Christie, Greek tragedy, hillary clinton, myth, Red State, Ron Paul, Ted Cruz, theater
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A Modern Iphigenia Story Plays Out in a Custody Battle Turned Murder Trial
A new nonfiction book, Janet Malcolm’s “Iphigenia in Forest Hills”, is the story of an ugly custody battle in which a little girl named Michelle is lost in the fray, and her father is ultimately murdered by her avenging mother. At Salon, Laura Miller says this … Continue reading
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Tagged agamemnon, clytemnestra, custody battles, feminism, Greek tragedy, iphigenia, justice, life, murder, the law, the oresteia, trials
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In Your Trance You’re Not Unfortunate: Atheism vs. Theism in Euripides’s Bakkhai
In scene 3 of Euripides’s ancient tragedy, Bakkhai, is a brief passage that overbrims with implications for the atheist vs. theist divide. Addressed to the anti-theist Pentheus, king of Thebes, a messenger calls on him to reconsider his hostility toward the divine and … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, delusion, Dionysus, Euripides, God, Greek tragedy, illusion, Jesus, literature, Richard Dawkins, tragedy
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ARCHETYPAL OVERLOAD! Samsara, Icarus, Nicodemus, The Cynic Diogenes, The Prodigal Son, Kafka’s Hunger Artist, Socrates, Odysseus, Freud’s Oedipal Totem and Taboo Idealized Daddy Memory, and Christian Conversion—All in a Kansas Song! (And Accompanied by a Greek Chorus!)
Really. Listen: Once I rose above the noise and confusion (just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion) I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high! Though my eyes could see, I still was a blind man. Though … Continue reading
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Tagged archetype, Christian, conversion, diogenes, Freud, Greek tragedy, icarus, Kansas, nicodemus, odysseus, samsara, the prodigal son
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Apollo v. Dionysus: The First Paragraph of Friedrich Nietzche’s “The Birth of Tragedy”
Friedrich Nietzsche (first paragraph of The Birth of Tragedy): We shall have gained much for the science of aesthetics, once we perceive not merely by logical inference, but with the immediate certainty of vision, that the continuous development of … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Apollo and Dionysus, Dionysus, Friedrich Nietzsche, Greek tragedy, literature, moon, philosophy, poetry, psychology, Santi Tafarella, Satan
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“The Apology of Dionysus”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
I know that you like my bee- balmy glades, and my jugs heavy with their sweet wines— but mine also are the snake’s skin and the wind-whip of biting sands. I weed your gardens with rakes of lightening and flurries of hail, frosting your fruits and … Continue reading
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Tagged art, death, Dionysus, Greek tragedy, life, literature, nature, painting, Peter Paul Rubens, poems, poetry, Santi Tafarella
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The Upanishads, the Bible, and Greek Tragedy: Would We Have Had These Great Works of Literature Without Dick Cheney-like Free Market Competition?
What role does competition play in the generation of imaginitive art and literature? Here are six things that suggest that competition plays a very large part indeed: First, in ancient Indian literature, particularly in the early formation of the Rig Veda … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 