- 19 Jul 2017 04:42
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Do you practice building strawman in your superior contemplative paradise?
Would you like to address what I mentioned about artists struggling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation?
It's quite possible that there's great artwork and literature out there that wouldn't exist if the artist was happy and contented in the ideological garden of your choice.
QatzelOk wrote:And there's also the great example of Christianity, a model of the tortured and beaten down philosopher who is beautiful because he is repressed and ineffective.
This is slave philosophy. "You must be destroyed and exploited in order to be useful to others."
I'd say that most of the art that comes from torture is more of a sign of a shitty system than of any kind of useful creative understanding of the human condition.
And that the Christian habit of inviting misery on himself, of sacrificing his own happiness for the glory of some kind of text-created empire, is just a way of writing himself out of any kind of real reflection or freedom that comes from peaceful, augmented reflection.
Our system is shitty. That won't change by giving our system's victims posthumous book prizes. Our leader probably want us reading about their tribulations in order to scare us into compliance.
Do you practice building strawman in your superior contemplative paradise?
Would you like to address what I mentioned about artists struggling with depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation?
It's quite possible that there's great artwork and literature out there that wouldn't exist if the artist was happy and contented in the ideological garden of your choice.