golden hours

Mario Bellatín, 2009.

“ That Lynndie England went to jail for doing things that John Yoo made legal, and Yoo does not even face disbarment, tells you all you need to know about the current state of justice in America.

— Andrew Sullivan

Dick Butkus

SHAKEDOWN!

William Blake, from Milton: A Poem, 1809.

Peter Friedel, Heinrich von Kleist, 1801.

What I’m interested in scientifically is understanding thought with computational precision. I mean, the romantic idea that poetry comes from this deep inarticulable ur-stuff is a nice idea, but I think it is essentially false. I think the mind is articulable and the heart probably knowable. Unless you’re a mystic and believe in a soul, which I don’t, you really don’t have any other conclusion you can reach besides that the mind is literally a computer.

Incidentally, this is the same argument used to justify “progressive rock,” which is awful.

Carefully Selected Garbage

Incidentally, Romanticism is the same ideology used to justify nationalism, which is murderous.