What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
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rotting bones
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Raga Bhairavi: https://youtu.be/v488qzY6kpA
Re: What are you reading, watching and listening to? - All languages
For much of last night, instead of sleeping, I was up, reading through the archives of Nathan Goldwag's blog, which I had discovered late yesterday evening: https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
It's a bit weird that I hadn't discovered that blog before, given how many interests and opinions I seem to share with the author. In fact, given Goldwag's interest in things like alt history and SF, I find it a bit surprising that, as far as I can tell, no one has mentioned him on the ZBB so far.
Among my early favorites were his tongue-in-cheek argument that Napoleon I was actually a comic-book-style supervillain (https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/201 ... ervillain/), and his Wildest True Stories of the Napoleonic Wars (https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/202 ... onic-wars/), which starts with a paragraph summing up the "supervillain" idea:
It's a bit weird that I hadn't discovered that blog before, given how many interests and opinions I seem to share with the author. In fact, given Goldwag's interest in things like alt history and SF, I find it a bit surprising that, as far as I can tell, no one has mentioned him on the ZBB so far.
Among my early favorites were his tongue-in-cheek argument that Napoleon I was actually a comic-book-style supervillain (https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/201 ... ervillain/), and his Wildest True Stories of the Napoleonic Wars (https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/202 ... onic-wars/), which starts with a paragraph summing up the "supervillain" idea:
The blog even taught me some things about European history I hadn't known before, and I think I know a lot about European history.The Napoleonic Wars are an objectively absurd historical time period, and I think only the fact that we’re so used to prevents us from seeing that. I mean, think about it. You’re reading European history, you’re going through the Middle Ages and feudalism and then the Religious Wars of the 16th century and the Discovery of the New World and the Columbian Exchange and then mercantilism and capitalism and the rise of Absolute Monarchy rivalry between the Hapsburgs and the Bourbons and then, oh yeah, Dr. Doom took over Europe for a decade and everyone had to team up to take him down. Seriously!
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rotting bones
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Cross dressing in the classical arts: https://youtu.be/3RISY7LU3u0
Name: Vasant Ras means "spring mood".
Scene: Village girls dancing with a cowherd playing the flute.
Note: The village girls are not virgins. Radha is married to someone else.
Philosophy: The cowherd represents the divine (Krishna). The village girls are souls seeking union with the divine. Infidelity signifies the priority of the divine over temporal affairs.
Practical meaning: Please don't eat the cows.
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I'm reading Negative Dialectics by Adorno. I like it so far. It's a good starting point to explain why 21st century "geniuses" are exhibit A for arguing that humans are mindless automatons. I might like it less if it goes full reactionary later.
Name: Vasant Ras means "spring mood".
Scene: Village girls dancing with a cowherd playing the flute.
Note: The village girls are not virgins. Radha is married to someone else.
Philosophy: The cowherd represents the divine (Krishna). The village girls are souls seeking union with the divine. Infidelity signifies the priority of the divine over temporal affairs.
Practical meaning: Please don't eat the cows.
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I'm reading Negative Dialectics by Adorno. I like it so far. It's a good starting point to explain why 21st century "geniuses" are exhibit A for arguing that humans are mindless automatons. I might like it less if it goes full reactionary later.