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The Buddha holds up a flower. Without comments.

Spinoza deserves a lot a better than this.

If a chimpanzee takes a photo, is it art? 🤔

I apologize for the video quality. My usual camera stopped working, and I used the built-in webcam on my computer. I didn't want to miss a Thursday release!

One of the best RUclips resources on Charles Bukowski. Thank you so much for being concise and clear.

Here's hoping that the airline industry continues to employ a lot of smart people.

GOOD EXAMPLE: SEE BILL MAYERS' INTERVIEW WITH JANE FONDA !! OMG ! SHE IS PAULINE! WATCH IS AND BE AMAZED , EVEN BILL ASKED WHAT UNIVERSE DO YOU SQUAT! WATCH THE HUBRIS OF A NEPO BABY , AND SEVERE HENRY FONDA THE EXTREME SOCIOPATH ! DADDY ISSUES JANE , BTW " WHERE YOU WOMEN WITH FU MONEY BEEN >??? YOU WICKED FU MONEY WOMEN OF HOLLYWOOD !

GOT A GREAT MODERN EXAMPLE FOR YOU: THE LOWER CLASSES , LOW CLASS RAPPERS , WAP'S , AND THE GHETTO ! THEY LOVE OUTWARD APPEARANCES IN JUST THE EXACT SAME WAY BUT NOT REALLY AND HOW THE WHITE ELITES FOOL THEM , SO WHAT ? DO NOT GO WHERE YOU ARE NOT WANTED , GET OFF OF MARTHA'S VINEYARD BLACKS; OBAMA'S AND SPIKE LEE , WHO YOU KIDDING , THEY MUST WANT TO GET A BUS FOR THEM! FUNNY HOW THE BLACKS SO WANT THIS BUT WILL NEVER EVER BE ACCEPTED , AND SO WHAT , WANT TO SUE THEM FOR WANTING TO KEEP THINGS NICE AND CLEAN AND DRUG FREE AND ESP CRIME FREE OF YOU!!

SOMEONE BESIDES ME KNOWS ABOUT EDITH WHARTON!! TODAY THESE ELITE WOMEN GET SURRAGAGTES AND NOT GET PREGNANT , WHO DOES THAT BESIDES THE NASTY LITTLE WOMEN THINGS , USING A POOR WOMAN FOR THIER EGGS AND HIS SPERM , NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT , YOU MALE ANIMUS WOMEN WHO ARE OUR GREATEST ENEMIES AS WOMEN!! EDITH WAS ONE OF THEM , SO HER KNEW !! NOW IT IS SURROGATES TO PROTECT THEIR ELITE WOMBS !! WONDER WHAT HAPPENS WHENT THESE ABMONANTIONS GROW UP AND IT IS AN ABMONATION!! LIKE DOLLY THE SHEEP, NEXT TIME JUST CLONE YOU SELFSELVES AND NO HOMOSEXUAL EVER LIKE THAT MARK LEVIN , REFUSE TO WATCH THE CREEPY CREEP WHO BROKE THE LAWS OF NATURE, YOU ARE A HOMOSEXUAL AS NATURE HAS TO CONTROL AND IF HAVE 3 OR MORE WHO WILL GET A ABNORMAL!! ALSO THEY CHECK HORMONES IN THE WOMB NOW AND CAN TELL IF THOSE HORMONES ARE A BIT OFF AND YIKES !! DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT !!

do you have a source or reference? i cant find the original book/essay

I always find the part "there ain't no mo indians blowing custer's mind with a different image of america" shocking to read. It sends chills up my spine reading it. As the battle of little bighorn was the first time in ages that the Americans actually lost to the Arapaho, Cheyenne and Sioux. It was the first real rallying moment of the American army to really hunker down to win that war. I love the idea that Sonia is stating that America has thrived for this long by having an enemy with "a different image of america". Really puts it into perspective for me. Loved your analysis.

Thank you. Very interesting talk. I recently read that Tolstoy believed in "the Law of Love", which, like other natural laws, admits no exception. Love is only 'love' when absolute, universal, and unconditional. I find this thought rather compelling. Also, it should be self-evident that whenever we bully or harass others in order to coerce them to behave as we wish, we are not only degrading them, but degrading ourselves. True education must be a matter of voluntary assent, the path of personal evolution. When we interfere with that, in ourselves or others, we are interfering with humaneness.

Great analysis! At a certain point in the novel I came to the conclusion that everything and everyone was part of Ryder's psyche. Like that giant wall he couldnt get around? Brilliant novel!

Another wonderful video.

Your videos unkaskafy my day.

THE FAKE MICROPHONE Ask yourself....why? WHY DO YOU NEED A FAKE MICROPHONE....? You may not come up with an answer.... But you'd come up with a suspicion

HATING IS A BAD PROPOSITION Not caring is a much better, disengaged approach. HATE DAMAGES THE HATER Want proof? Sartre killer himself…. Oh sorry….”he died by suicide”

Thank you for the video essay, great job!

thank u queen this was so helpful for my essay

Love the clear concise explanation, thank you

Loved the vid!

thank you

i think the way you described “feeling” art actually gives certain pieces *more* meaning because the way you feel the artwork gives a personalized meaning to it, if that makes sense. especially with art genres like abstract expressionism where it’s an expression of how the artist or maybe even the viewer *feels* rather than depicting a scene or subject

Your analysis is compelling and raises this question/pbservation: if our dreams are the invention of our brain only, where all the characters and dream 'furniture' our own design, then even the video 'piano' shown here will differ between one person and the next (we do not see the same piano). The ability to express a dream sequence narrative can only be subjective, there is no objective reality to this dreams content, is there? How can we ever share 'dreamspeak'? I know this book will drive me crazy :))

Sontag-don’t overthink art Marxists-think about art so much it becomes about the struggle we wish to promote and not about art.

I find your analysis on this book very helpful I.recently purchased this book which is on my sooner-than-later TBR now.thanks

That in itself could’ve been one of her poem.

I think I'm in love with this girl she is the most intelligent person interested in the most intelligent useful things the most intelligent people that ever existed had to say and puts them together like a puzzle or people who love and care enough to want to become wiser purpose beyond their own penis end their own selfish gains unbelievable in comprehendible intellectual genius genius and it's ultimate incoherence of self-perception kamikaze rebellion call kindness

Omg thank you so much ... 🙏 as usual a wonderful video.

so many different forms of art means so many things to so many people. i love art

Here is my take. Art has been around for a long, long, long time. In fact since we lived in caves, that's a while. Art is part of us as humans whether we make it or consume it. Medieval art was for the most part religious art and it was full of symbolism and meaning. The symbolism and meaning in the Middle Ages was derived partly from scripture and partly from Greek, Roman, Norse or other mythologies. The portrait of a man is simply the portrait, but sometimes like some of Anthony van Dyck portraits there are some hidden symbolisms in those portraits. Meaning which means something to the sitter (aka the person paying for the artwork). For example the portrait of James Stuart is done with his dog and he's wearing a medal. Clearly the dog is there because it meant something to the Duke. I don't believe that art is made to shock or amuse. It's just made because the artists wants to make it. I am an artist and I make art because I enjoy it and I draw or paint what I want and what I enjoy. There is no deeper meaning to it, I'm not trying to shock anyone. It's just what I enjoy. I don't think anyone is experiencing art wrong. You want to think a blank canvass means something, or that a banana taped to a wall has a meaning of sorts. Great, enjoy it. Art is simply to be experienced and enjoyed by the viewer. That's it. Give it whatever meaning you want, trust me the artist won't care.

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In Nighttown, Bloom says he's the new womanly man.

Thank you,😀

I am reading “The Unconsoled “ and having difficulty and confusion 😰 Your explanation on Perl’s theory really helps me a lot. Thank you.

Interestingly for me the wheelbarrow evokes work. 'so much depends'. A wheelbarrow is a tool and I immediately think of hoisting its handles, not a cute calming rustic scene. This is an intuitive reaction based on experience, not reaching for abstract meaning. I must read Sontag again.

Bukowski also has a trait that I love. If you are going to do something, give it everything you have, or don't even start. In other words, if you do something, get after it.

The man was a total drunk. Why should anyone listen to him? No reason unless he was at an AA meeting.

Being excommunicated from any organized religion is a feather in anyone's cap. It's like being banned from running in a race because no one else can keep up.

At 86 my answer to the great mind and philosophy of Spinoza is contained in a little poem that I composed some fifty years ago. It goes like this : ETERNITY. I was the sky and I was the sea. I was the wind and I was the tree. This is how I know that I was, that I am and that when I die, through the quantic atoms of my body I will be born in thousand of different bodies, on earth and in the universe. *** Religions and sacred books are all creation of man. Nobody ever saw or herd God. To explain God is foolish and childish. Reality for us and everything is to be born, to live and die. To be reborn in different forms, sometimes even human.

This is a crisis for the social media generations--millennials and Z's. Those of us weaned on books, art, pre-internet music and traditional cinema have relatively greater capacity to simply be present for a work of art or entertainment as an experience rather than prosaic "content."

Sometimes i just go to art galleries to read the pretentious descriptions of the artworks

Thank you for this! :)

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

Such a great video. Thank you.

I appreciate your gender neutral assessment, just analyzing him for who he is. Thank you! Ahh, you hit on it, still it was fair.

Please do a video on Style by Songtag.. ps love your channel ❤

Everything has the meaning we give it.. or don't give it. In itself, everything is meaningless.

thank you for this - amazing how super relevant Sontags observations and commentary are today

Hmmm, I don't think Nietzsche really felt that life was meaningless but only that losing the traditional meaning-compass of belief in the Judeo-Christian god had set man loose to find the true meaning which is simply to live, to be what a human evolved to be, to figure that out for ourselves without the guidance of the holy lie. I haven't yet read Bukowski, but my feeling from this review is that he's a bit hedonistic for Nietzsche's taste.