tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post64021098624598185..comments2024-03-29T07:59:56.216-04:00Comments on Farmers Letters: Zizek on Communism and the Neo-Liberal Left-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-38634661850679536712015-01-10T14:11:30.093-05:002015-01-10T14:11:30.093-05:00:):)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-11955817210934242572015-01-10T12:47:21.419-05:002015-01-10T12:47:21.419-05:00_________ A Task Completed _________
A swelling j...<b>_________ A Task Completed _________<br /><br /><i>A swelling joy makes breathless with delight<br />The one who oversees and masterminds<br />Altruistic projects of all kinds.<br />Satisfying is Artistic Sight.<br />Knowing how things ought to look’s a Gift<br />Combined with Wisdom, practical yet kind,<br />Overcomes the fears that blind then bind<br />Most people to a crippling sense of FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-5785210035963520782015-01-10T09:31:37.245-05:002015-01-10T09:31:37.245-05:00:P<a href="http://thersiteshideout.blogspot.com/2015/01/more-difference-and-repetition.html" rel="nofollow">:P</a>Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-15373301263613429622015-01-10T08:12:45.033-05:002015-01-10T08:12:45.033-05:00(cont)
What happens is a continual surrender of h...(cont)<br /><br /><i>What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. There remains to define this process of depersonalization and its relation to the sense of tradition. It is in this depersonalization that art may be said to approach the Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-4579368921059101772015-01-10T08:12:26.759-05:002015-01-10T08:12:26.759-05:00T.S.Eliot, this great conservative, who first clea...<i>T.S.Eliot, this great conservative, who first clearly formulated this link between our dependence on tradition and our power to change the past:<br />tradition cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. It involves, in the first place, the historical sense, which we may call nearly indispensable to anyone who would continue to be a poet beyond his twenty-fifth Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-21173802314047379042015-01-09T09:39:59.274-05:002015-01-09T09:39:59.274-05:00It's all so much Difference and Repetition.It's all so much <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_and_Repetition" rel="nofollow">Difference and Repetition</a>.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-3493104163281598042015-01-09T09:36:21.867-05:002015-01-09T09:36:21.867-05:00Progress? No. Evolution? Most definitely. Repe...Progress? No. Evolution? Most definitely. Repetitive patterns (discordant or not)? Most <a href="http://youtu.be/tP0EdOOhDO8" rel="nofollow">definitely</a>. ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-69246382499531665372015-01-08T09:27:18.153-05:002015-01-08T09:27:18.153-05:00As for Zizek, I cannot bring myself to call him a ...As for Zizek, I cannot bring myself to call him a "Communist" no matter what he says. If we must label him, I'd prefer to call him a Practicalist, a Possibilitist, or even a Pragmatic-Idealist, because -- <i>unlike our intransigent, morally blind, generally idiotic leftists zealously practicing toxic forms of GroupThink</i> -- instead of defending or apologizing for the series of FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-30864844343963537232015-01-08T09:17:18.163-05:002015-01-08T09:17:18.163-05:00How Tristan got into this I can't understand. ...How Tristan got into this I can't understand. Needless to say it is a great favorite of mine along with Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, Lohengrin and "The Ring." I love them all with more or less equal passion.<br /><br />That said I have little patience with "intellectuals" who strive to infuse Wagner with "social or historical FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-84200171681868079012015-01-08T08:48:24.133-05:002015-01-08T08:48:24.133-05:00heh. :)heh. :)nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-60086358135735188562015-01-08T08:40:30.797-05:002015-01-08T08:40:30.797-05:00Fair use... ;)
Fair use... ;)<br />Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-11851932218186655862015-01-08T08:10:20.890-05:002015-01-08T08:10:20.890-05:00I hope The Economist does not sue you for reduced ...I hope The Economist does not sue you for reduced sales. ;)nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-65926212889368916302015-01-08T08:05:25.773-05:002015-01-08T08:05:25.773-05:00heh. sorry, i hadn't seen the last four commen...heh. sorry, i hadn't seen the last four comments.nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-88379708736990125702015-01-08T08:04:14.462-05:002015-01-08T08:04:14.462-05:00I am deeply honoured, FJ! :)I am deeply honoured, FJ! :)nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-1063509818332270182015-01-08T07:58:58.537-05:002015-01-08T07:58:58.537-05:00from the opera Prelude and the Whole 4+ hour Magil...from the opera <a href="http://youtu.be/J-qoaioG2UA" rel="nofollow">Prelude</a> and the Whole 4+ hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjFBW-S3z0" rel="nofollow">Magilla</a>.Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-19386772219380267072015-01-08T07:53:00.160-05:002015-01-08T07:53:00.160-05:00(cont)
Why did Wagner choose such an unusual styl...(cont)<br /><br /><i>Why did Wagner choose such an unusual style? Partly it was the result of a new outlook on life. He discovered the work of Arthur Schopenhauer, a German philosopher, in 1854. Schopenhauer believed that people were driven by unachievable desires; the chasm between what they want and what they can get is immiserating. Wagner was inspired by such pessimism. For a man prone to Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-13378031092911052742015-01-08T07:52:48.234-05:002015-01-08T07:52:48.234-05:00...and for those who might not subscibe to The Eco......and for those who might not subscibe to The Economist...<br /><br /><i>“THE most erotic music ever composed.” This was how one critic described Richard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde”, which in 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of its first performance. The work is divisive. Many 19th-century critics thought little of it; some even mocked it. But it had an enormous impact, ushering in the move Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-80265341152843914012015-01-08T07:41:17.174-05:002015-01-08T07:41:17.174-05:00Mi casa es su casa! :)Mi casa es su casa! :)Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6758360225120003215.post-64028417669669491122015-01-08T00:06:52.313-05:002015-01-08T00:06:52.313-05:00o/t
i have seen you previously posting on this, s...o/t<br /><br />i have seen you previously posting on this, so <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21637349-magic-wagners-opera-springs-musical-trick-spine-tingling-and-blissful" rel="nofollow">if i may</a>.nicraphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18405719003477902855noreply@blogger.com