By the time we become adults, most of us are so alienated from ourselves and the earth, indoctrinated by media, and deluded by “false needs” created by the consumer culture, that there’s little hope for us connecting with the other worlds surrounding us. In tribal cultures, shamans orhe...
There’s another contradiction. To get The Beatles Thing, they had to be themselves. But that behavior alienated George. I wrote about some of what’s written below when I recountedPaul’s concept of a “breakup show”earlier on the 13th, but it’s worth not only repeating but going into...
By limiting excellence (virtus in Latin) to moral virtue only, Christianity set beauty adrift—as an alienated, arbitrary, superficial enchantment. And beauty has continued to lose prestige. For close to two centuries it has become a convention to attribute beauty to only one of the two sexes,...
3. Alienated teen or adolescent girl in the passenger side of a car driving down the highway, window rolled down, her hand swaying in the wind as she zips down a road to Who Knows Where. 4. Overhead shot of protagonist in the rain, arms spread, just letting the downpour COME. Laughi...
Alienated or outcast. (I like the way the words alienated and outcast function as both verbs and nouns.) I think about what I’ve learned through being housebound, bedbound. What words, images, politics, emotions, literature, embodied-knowledge, etc. I’ve come to connect with. When I ...
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty –Ralph Waldo Emerson Live your life so that when you die,you’re the one smiling and everyone around you is crying. ...
This rule has automatically alienated the Russian half-Jews whose mother is not Jewish. Needless to say, hardly any have any intention to convert to Orthodox Judaism which they find alien and bizarre. Consequently many began to turn to the Russian Church. As for those half-Jews whose mother...
Even in your office, or your home—maybe even in your church or synagogue— a restless, frantic, self-alienated, electronically stimulated confusion dominates life. The implications for inner peace in the modern world are exactly the same as they were in the ancient world. We will always have...
Once He has become an idol, God's alleged qualities have as little to do with my personal experience as alienated political doctrines do. The idol may be praised as Lord of Mercy, yet any cruelty may be committed in its name, just as the alienated faith in human solidarity may not even...
Throughout its creation and rise, the New Party sought to unite alienated leftists who had grown disgusted by Bill Clinton?s embrace of the center-left Democratic Leadership Council. Posted By: FYI | October 08, 2008 at 05:35 PM Report Abuse A-M-E-N !!! We're all screwed because ...