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Marcel Proust:
Once in a while a door opens, and let's in the future. --- Graham Greene
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Can I post quotes here also? I think so , right?
Alan Wilson Watts:
Alan Wilson Watts:
Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence. -
“To live is enough.” ― Shunryu Suzuki
Picasso, I believe
Could be said of myth, too.Art is a lie which reveals the truth
You can only see the height of a mountain from its valley.
The radical myth towards which the helix aspires is beyond the desire for money or power, yet which has greater returns than all the power and money in the world could not achieve.
The radical myth towards which the helix aspires is beyond the desire for money or power, yet which has greater returns than all the power and money in the world could not achieve.
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I rather like freedom of speech, and the idea of criminalizing what some "liberal" academics like to call "hatred" seems crazy to me. There are two kinds of expression: brutally blunt and artfully indirect. The rest is science and math.SteveC wrote:Picasso, I believe
Could be said of myth, too.Art is a lie which reveals the truth
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Oh I think one can be blunt, or frank, without being brutal, Carmela. One can also be artfully blunt.There are two kinds of expression: brutally blunt and artfully indirect.
I like the definition of "civil". It doesn't mean "nice."
The idea of free speech has had an interesting evolution. Much of what is deemed "free speech" today would have been unthinkable 200 years ago. Yet, there is a threshold even if it must be carefully defined. There are kinds of hate speech which crosses that threshold in that it can be injurious in any number of ways.
No doubt some define that line a little too politically correctly, but burning crosses on people's lawns, painting swastikas outside people's homes or sending any kind of discriminatory message solely for the purpose of denigrating a group of people should be examined carefully and not generally tolerated.
Especially in this era of anonymous social media..
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The cruelties you describe are about a specific, narrow, expressive breach of political etiquette. Our jails and prisons are overflowing with non-violent victims of authorized violence, including the violence perpetrated against those who are members of isolated social groups who were left off the enlightenment bandwagon we expect to magically spring forth from the socially isolated, the poor, the illiterate, the abused, the neglected, the emotionally and behaviorally challenged and disabled and otherwise despised.Clemsy wrote: No doubt some define that line a little too politically correctly, but burning crosses on people's lawns, painting swastikas outside people's homes or sending any kind of discriminatory message solely for the purpose of denigrating a group of people should be examined carefully and not generally tolerated.
Especially in this era of anonymous social media..
We all have a shadow side, and people with power and authority to participate in our American system of mass incarceration and personally-delivered acts of violence against unpopular (mostly) poor people do not win points for policing thoughts and feelings with arrests (official kidnappings) and all that follows in the criminal court system.
To "criminalize" is to sanction actual physical, mental, financial and familial Violence Times Ten. To do this in response to thought and feeling is, IMHO, monstrously vicious beyond all comprehension.
That such official, authorized actual violence is perpetrated by"good" people is amazing. It is the antithesis of compassion and understanding and wisdom.
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Once in a while a door opens, and let's in the future. --- Graham Greene