Tag: society

• [YT] Mindless Entertainment: In Defense of James Gunn

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  July 29, 2018

  culture, interesting stuff, video

  callout culture, censorship, social control, social crimes, social issues, society, virtue signalling, youtube

• “All of us are engaged daily with works of art, even if we are neither professionals nor amateur artists. We read books, we listen to music, we look at posters, we admire flower arrangements. Art, as I am using the word, does not include just “high art”, that is, painting, sculpture, poetry, classical music, but also the more popular expressions – the novel, the theatre, the cinema, popular music and rock. In fact, there is a very real sense in which the Christian life itself should be our greatest work of art. Even for the great artist, the most crucial work of art is his life.”

  –Art and the Bible, Francis Schaeffer, 49.

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  June 6, 2018

  literature, nonfiction, quote

  art, Christianity, cinema, classical music, culture, film, francis schaeffer, high art, inspiration, life, life as art, literature, music, poetry, sculpture, society, writing

• [posting][review] Top Five Intellectual Anime Shows

  

  One of the common misconceptions about anime is that it is a strange and goofy genre designed for middle school students, but while that is true about quite a few that have had massive impact in Western culture (I’m looking at you, One Piece and Naruto), quite a few anime have been created specifically for…

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  May 26, 2018

  literary critique, literature, nonfiction, review, thought piece

  AI, animation, anime, art, critique, culture, ergo proxy, ethics, history, ideologies, intellectual, japanese culture, japanese history, narratives, philosophy, psycho-pass, psychology, robotics, samurai champloo, sayonara zetsubo sensei, sci-fi, scifi, social issues, society, steins;gate, technology, time travel

• “The ancient Jews always blamed themselves when things fell apart. They acted as if God’s goodness – the goodness of reality – was axiomatic, and took responsibility for their own failure. That’s insanely responsible. But the alternative is to judge reality as insufficient, to criticize Being itself, and to sink into resentment and the desire for revenge.”

  –12 Rules For Life, Dr. Jordan Peterson, 157.

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  May 7, 2018

  quote

  12 rules for life, advice, failure, god, ideas, inspiration, jordan peterson, life, opinion, personal responsibility, reality, responsibility, society

• [YT] Same Parents (Enigma)

  A great song which reminds us why we should first pursue what binds us all together before dwelling on what makes us different from each other.

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  March 26, 2018

  music, video

  culture, enigma, family, history, inspiration, music, relationships, society, togetherness, video

• “Our desiring model – our romantic theology – has emphasized that we are creatures who love first and foremost. The most basic way that we intend the world is on the affective order of love. This love constitutes our fundamental and governing orientation to the world. As such, our love is always ultimately aimed at a telos, a picture of the good life that pulls us toward it, thus shaping our actions and behavior. This orientation is something that comes before thinking; thus we’ve described it as precognitive. It is more at work at the level of the adaptive unconsciousness or the “social imaginary”. Our love is aimed from the fulcrum of our desire – the habits that constitute our character, or core identity. And the way our love or desire gets aimed in specific directions is through practices that shape, mold, and direct our love.”

  -James K. A. Smith, Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation, 80.

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  March 24, 2018

  nonfiction, quote

  Christianity, cultural formation, culture, desire, ideas, love, prayer, relationships, social imaginary, society, worldview, worship