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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Rousseau and Voltaire Meet "Avatar"

from Google AI:
In this letter, dated May 4, 1759(?), Voltaire sarcastically praises Rousseau's work, Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men), for its cleverness in trying to make humanity "stupid" and long to live on all fours. Voltaire, who was already in his sixties at the time and in poor health, states that he is too old to adopt this new, primitive way of life.

Why do Modern Movies suck?

 "Spectacle is the Sun that Never Sets over the Empire of Modern Passivity"

- Guy Debord, "The Society of the Spectacle'

"Panem et Circenses"
-Juvenal

Is Avatar meaningless?  Or is it a lesson on the meaning of a life and world without technology and spectacle?  A sinthome for a life of real experience?  Of real Folk!   ...not a product of Capital (or is it?).
A Conversation with Jesse Welles (Josephine, The Singer or, The Mouse Folk).

Tik Tok - The Return/ Re-Birth of Folk Music?
Or New Fount of Spectacle?

Entertainment for folk too tired from Work and trapped in Spectacle?

Or the Birth in Anti-fragility of the Prosumer Generation?

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