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Are you really as depraved and pitiful as Arthur Schopenhauer thinks you are?

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The ancient concept of memento mori reminds us to “remember we must die,” not for any macabre or nihilistic purposes, but to prompt us to take a moment to contemplate our mortality so as to remember to live these fleeting, fatalistic lives of ours to their fullest.

Likewise, it seems the same could be said for Schopenhauer’s persistent contemplation of the evils of humankind. We contemplate these evils not to revel in and celebrate the boundless depravity of our kind, but to remind us that even in the best, most pure hearted of our species, therein Darkness resides; ergo, understanding that we have such an inherently Dark capacity to live wrongly, we should then strive in relentless determination to live our lives rightly and wholly in the Light.

Perhaps…

Excerpts from Schopenhauer’s essay On Human Nature. Music by ‪@guinabernardes‬

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The Epigraph to Sorrow

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Learning the tricky ins and outs of audio/video recording and editing ain’t easy for an old dog like me. But I’ve always wanted to offer audiobooks as part of my humble literary portfolio, so I guess it’s time for me to grin and bear it and get to it ’cause I certainly ain’t getting any younger.

As I work on recording my new novel Sorrow, I figured I might as well have a little visually creative fun with it along the way…

Narrating in general is less than easy for me; it is even less so when it’s the Early Modern English that was spoken nearly half a millennium ago.

Yeah…

#grinandbearitwithme

All 165 of Pink Floyd’s Songs Ranked?!

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Impossible to do.

Not because I think all of them are great, which they very well may be.

But because I basically only know songs from The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon.

But Bill Wyman writing for Vulture thinks it’s possible.

Anyway, whether you’re into Floyd or not, or into rankings or not, for now this version of “Mother” is my current Floyd favorite…

A Sunday Song to Spark the Spirit and Summon the Moves of the Dance

The response Roger mouths after singing “Mother should I trust the government” is classic him…

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We Should Be Dancing… Not Dying

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With all the constant blood and violence in this constantly bloody and violent nation of mine, a la yesterday’s insane mass killing after a gun-toting asshole goes off his nutty handle during a routine traffic stop, I hardly feel like getting my groove on.

But get my groove on I must or else I will become completely consumed by the constant blood and violence and do nothing more than wallow in a constant state of misery and fear…

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Papers, Please

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This amazing short film is trending on youtube. I don’t always check to see what’s trending on youtube because usually there are only inane things I have no interest in; however, I may have to start checking more often if there is the chance that there is more quality art to discover such as this quality production.

Interestingly/oddly, the film is based upon a video game created by Lucas Pope.

Perhaps there is hope for humanity after all…

#prayforartforartishumanityshope

 

There’s so much to gripe about I can’t decide which gripe to blog about so instead I’ll just share this…

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According to this article, which is a derivative of this article, which leans heavily on this study, creative people literally see the world differently than us lesser than creative types, as is illustrated by the following video…


 
Some of you may remember this similar titillating* exercise in awareness I shared in days past.

#prayforopenness
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*The word “titillating” was added for clickbait purposes only; although, some may in fact be titillated by brain teasers. Who knows…