Ah, yes as the empire is hollowing out and The West is collapsing on its failed experiment with making itself God, it is wise to contrast these two mindsets. Like Dickenson's work or hate it, she is a testament to the beauty and expanse of the human mind, a rich inner life and the power of the pen. She rarely traveled, yet she could reach so many with her words because there really is something more to being human than visiting or even moving to the most fashionable places and having sexual exploits. Whitman is a victim of the disintegration that the "Enlightenment" led to. Be your own boss. Worship your self and your sensual experiences. What could go wrong? Well, who knew it would lead to population collapse, mass surveillance, censorship, an opioid epidemic, porn addiction, mandatory gene therapy jabs and drag queen story hour, but it did. I have in the past tried to use Whitman to help people snap out of depression that our nihilistic dominant culture leads to, but I now see why that was never going to work. Emily hold us, no doubt b/c she was constrained. I have kept her "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant" close. It is one of the few poems I have memorized. It is advice I need to keep working to better follow. I highly recommend Blaise Pascal's "The Penses" as a response to the unleashing of the intellectual reframing that was taking place in the 17th century that led us here. I am reading a translation with notes from Prof. Peter Kreeft. Even if you reject Catholicism, if you are interested in understanding The West as either a member or its victim, you might want to understand the history of its philosophical underpinnings more fully.
Unfortunately I cannot recall in which book it was, but the author quoted Whitman regarding the US political process. All I remember is Whitman quoted as stating that politicians come from whore-houses and the dregs of the population. Whitman also wished that some "black-bearded frontiersman" (if my memory is correct) would stride out of the frontier and "into the Presidency".
Ah, yes as the empire is hollowing out and The West is collapsing on its failed experiment with making itself God, it is wise to contrast these two mindsets. Like Dickenson's work or hate it, she is a testament to the beauty and expanse of the human mind, a rich inner life and the power of the pen. She rarely traveled, yet she could reach so many with her words because there really is something more to being human than visiting or even moving to the most fashionable places and having sexual exploits. Whitman is a victim of the disintegration that the "Enlightenment" led to. Be your own boss. Worship your self and your sensual experiences. What could go wrong? Well, who knew it would lead to population collapse, mass surveillance, censorship, an opioid epidemic, porn addiction, mandatory gene therapy jabs and drag queen story hour, but it did. I have in the past tried to use Whitman to help people snap out of depression that our nihilistic dominant culture leads to, but I now see why that was never going to work. Emily hold us, no doubt b/c she was constrained. I have kept her "Tell all the truth, but tell it slant" close. It is one of the few poems I have memorized. It is advice I need to keep working to better follow. I highly recommend Blaise Pascal's "The Penses" as a response to the unleashing of the intellectual reframing that was taking place in the 17th century that led us here. I am reading a translation with notes from Prof. Peter Kreeft. Even if you reject Catholicism, if you are interested in understanding The West as either a member or its victim, you might want to understand the history of its philosophical underpinnings more fully.
I thought a little hard on Emily, she didn't get out much. Now Walter, yes, he was as pompous as they come.
Unfortunately I cannot recall in which book it was, but the author quoted Whitman regarding the US political process. All I remember is Whitman quoted as stating that politicians come from whore-houses and the dregs of the population. Whitman also wished that some "black-bearded frontiersman" (if my memory is correct) would stride out of the frontier and "into the Presidency".
White snakes bad. Brown snakes good. Black snakes better. O bama yo mama!
Music has come under the same hammer as art and literature,
If you consider the work of Nobel Prize for Literature 2020 winner
Louise Gluck for her poetry. Complete garbage, the only reason she
Was promoted so heavily is she's from a filthy rich djewish family
With connections to huge wealthed banking dynasty families.
Got the picture yet, nothing to do with talent or abilities
Nobel schnobel is it?:).