The Screaming Pope
Rants and reactions to contemporary politics, art and culture.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Interest on Your Social Capital?
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In the classic capitalist paradigm industrial production produces capital. Capital when deposited in a bank results in interest which...
Friday, September 27, 2019
Shizuoka's Performing Arts Center's Antigone
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Arnold Bocklin's "Isle of the Dead," Basel version, (1880) No spoiler alert is necessary. In fact, The Shizuoka Perfor...
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Red Star Over China
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There’s something very appealing about being in the presence of a community of people all bound together by shared beliefs. Their faith...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night is so filled with pregnant, over the top imagery that it comes perilously close to parodyi...
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Yes I Can!
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Is there a wrong and a right? Kant thought so and referred to such statements as categorial imperatives. Those who are followers of d...
Monday, September 23, 2019
How to Form a Movement
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Everybody has a story. Usually it’s part of a Manichean design in which they're the force of good opposing an evil in the form of...
Friday, September 20, 2019
Have You Gotten Your Flu Shot?
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Sickness is like science fiction. Stephen King’s The Stand , uses a flu epidemic to create a horror story and Susan Sontag’s famous e...
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