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Allow Artists to be Artists: “…art must be tethered to something more concrete than simple ‘honesty.’ A sea of free-floating atomized individuals speaking their truth does not a culture make. T.S. Eliot, in his treatise Notes Towards the Definition of Culture, suggests that culture must be rooted in religious tradition. ‘It is in Christianity that our arts have developed,’ he writes. ‘It is against a background of Christianity that all our thought has significance. An individual European may not believe that the Christian Faith is true, and yet what he says, and makes, and does, will all spring out of his heritage of Christian culture and depend upon that culture for its meaning.'”
Art, Politics, and the Limit of Reason: “The Jacobins were the enemy of our Enlightenment ancestors and the contemporary Jacobins remain our chief enemies now. Principles aside, we must judge the tree by the fruit: are they producing nobility, grace, beauty, prosperity, and happiness or their opposites?”
Musings on Possibility: “The standard linear reading of the Bible is under the chiasmic reading of it. One reveals more than the other, but the one that reveals more (which means it has more resolution) contains within it the less resolute. To increase resolution is to increase the surface-to-volume ratio. It is by no coincidence, that resolution is tied to images and thus representation. A ‘high-resolution image’ is an image that represents more.”
Understanding Hyperstition: “Hypersition is a narrative that realizes itself through technical means —a sort of feedback loop that becomes its own drive forward —we have obvious examples of that, eschatological narratives that get invested in, —and if they are potent enough whole industries are built on them. ‘The Singularity’ is an example of a Hypersititon along with looming Climate or Computational catastrophes (which of course require prevention in the form of massive infrastructure). Roko’s Basilisk, etc., you get the gist.”
