Are there ethical aspects to mysticism? There is a misunderstanding amongst the “learned” as well as the “average” thinking persons that mysticism is essentially an escape from humanistic responsibilities. The mystic, it is falsely believed, retreats into an esoteric paradigm to suppress his or her sorrows and by extension forget the rest of humanity’s suffering. […]
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Excerpts from Cinema and Social Change
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself. Bertolt Brecht Excerpts from Cinema and Social Change by Tony Kashani […]
Excerpts from Deconstructing the Mystique
From Chapter 9: The Mythmaking Apparatus To sustain an ideology, there needs to be a system of myths. Let us examine this concept. We hear over and over, by the rank and file in the system that the industry gives the people what they want, hence, what culture critic Michael Parenti calls “the myth of […]
MEDITATIONS OF THE GREEK MASTER
The Primary Agent is still, without any sort of movement at all. Its stillness produces its image, which is the intellect; but not in a thing, for its image is a vessel, noble and powerful, superior in nobility and power to all lower vessels. In that image are all science and knowledge, because when it […]
Hollywood An Agent of Hegemony
May the shining flame of our enthusiasm never be extinguished. This flame alone gives light and warmth to the creative art of propaganda. Rising from the depths of the people, this art must always descend back to it and find its power there. Power based on guns may be a good thing; it is, however […]