Ninth Note to “The Decline of Liberalism”

Navigating and steering through the unknowable and incomprehensible with nothing except for taste and intuition as the guide and compass is the overall journey or path, but the destination and endpoint of this journey or path is a very simple and straightforward desire and fantasy. As the American entrepreneur and writer Napoleon Hill wrote: "When … Continue reading Ninth Note to “The Decline of Liberalism”

Second Note to “Teaching Aesthetics and History”

Art and leisure are thus fundamentally opposed to the twin goals of genocide and global conquest which the system has set for itself. But the system also cannot overcome the “poetic aura” which Gramsci suggested has “already formed and emerged” or at least is in “the process of formation and emergence which has begun and … Continue reading Second Note to “Teaching Aesthetics and History”