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I dredged up that quote from Colin Wilson - actually, it turns out, De Beauvoir: Both had a sense of an encounter with "naked existence" - but the con...

Well said. The masses are essentially innocent in the hands of expert psychologists and mass-manipulators.

I think, no matter who started the thread, the troll is the poster being the biggest dick. Haha. Of course, it's hard not to be a fairly sizable dick ...

I don't either. I think it's really clever, and just plain old beautiful. Even with the bizarre a-grammar.

I get that. But that light side - when its hazards are swept under the rug - can create a ton of darkness.

Sure, grotesque. And the mythological resonances are part of our heritage of unconscious types and archetypes. But there is a clear line between pokin...

Surrealism was a conscious attempt to extract an image of the unconscious. Dada as well. Automatic writing: letting the unconscious take the wheel. I ...

Sure. But the special sort of grotesque, bizarre Modernist ugliness has no precedent I'm aware of - apart from the immemorial access to the unconsciou...

Eternally diggingdiggingdigging! (And diggin' the digging! Sublime depths dark enough to panic the kraken!) If you have a more fleshed-out insight int...

At any rate, the ascendance of ugliness in art is a fascinating shift. The psychology of it. https://www.atlassociety.org/post/why-art-became-ugly It ...

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful The book I cited above.

Have you read the book?

Re Beauty and the Sublime "According to Burke, the Beautiful is that which is well-formed and aesthetically pleasing, whereas the Sublime is that whic...

The fascism within us all. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2020.1727403 Possibly, this fascist mindset, this desire to be led, h...

"The reason that think advertising doesn't "work" is that they think advertisements are trying to make them do something immediately." Why Good Advert...

It seems important to say: Apart from a fifth state: silence. Silence of the mouth and of the mind. To "exhaust all possible states related to a propo...

Interesting stuff. Looking forward to seeing how this thread plays out. :smile:

Also, if you're struggling with your next step in a painting, you can take a pic of the painting with your phone, bring the pic into a digital art app...

VR sculpting is a blast as well. With the same freedom to reiterate.

For folks who love to make visual art but lack the painter's touch and technique, it's a godsend.

I shifted from painting to digital art a couple of years ago. What that means: You can save your work as file1, then continue to work, save again as f...

After a long day of study and creative exertion, a little amateurish play can really hit the spot.

I do someday hope to be a professional forum poster. :smile:

There we agree. Is it wise to have little to learn?

Good game. :smile:

I don't see anything impure about a scalpel.

Ah, I see. So you're at a more advanced stage?

P. S. There's nothing passive about my aggression.

Your words bespeak a genuine and profound love of wisdom. :fire: :hearts: :fire:

Failing at?...

You seem to know a lot about me. :rofl:

Not sure why I should care what you think, but I'll try (to care what you think). :smile:

Not everyone is here to discuss. The forum makes a fine notebook. :smile:

Read Edward Bernays (the father of public relations) and Ernest Dichter (the father of motivational research) if you think subtle powerful subliminal ...

You've chosen punishment. Good. Enjoy your miserable life. Your argument has nothing to say about happy people.

...should read... You say 'we' where you mean 'I'. You don't speak for happy, only for unhappy, people. Unhappy people 'are being punished.' Fine. Hap...

A feckless attempt to draw you away from metaphysics once and for all. Your ethics threads are more interesting and more fruitful. Now you see me, now...

All I have to offer to this supremely sterile debate. I suggest cracking Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle to gain some insight into folks' fundam...

It isn't. After all these years realist folks about these parts are still content to straw-man anti-realism to death. That's a Triumph of the Will, ri...

It will answer all the questions I've posed to you? Do you promise?

If you only think it is illegal then you only think you know the rules of the game. What kind of game is it in which the players only think they know ...

I get it. But if Wittgenstein ended metaphysics, why go on with it? Genuinely puzzled.

As long as by 'wrong' you don't mean 'illegal.' Anti-realism, to your lights, may be a wrong or bad move in a game of chess. But it's not fair to call...

For what it's worth, having followed your posts for too many years, it looks less and less like a game of chess and more like a chemical addiction. Or...

Fair enough. Enjoy the game.

I remember bumping into the holy mad a decade or so ago. Thanks for the link.

It is. It's a little silly of Sartre. But I think it works well in the context of an upside-down hero myth. A Holy Grail to vomit in.