By Phil Rockstroh “Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”―Søren Kierkegaard Life, as lived, moment to moment, in the corporate/consumer state, involves moving between states of tedium, stress, and swoons of mass media and consumer distraction. Therein, one spends a large portion of one’s economically beleaguered life attempting to make ends meet and not go mad [...]
By Phil Rockstroh Throughout the course of human affairs, scheming elitists — let’s call them the Plundering Class — have devoted their days conceiving strategies and executing agendas that serve to enrich the fortunes of a ruthless few (namely themselves) by an exploitation of the harried and hapless multitudes. They scheme, hire silver tongued flacks [...]
By Phil Rockstroh [Graphic: Mechanical heart courtesy of Wallpoper]>/i> “Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.” — Miles Davis As a general rule, musicians, artists, and writers, as well as those possessed of an ardor for self-awareness and a commitment to political activism have been advised to [...]
By Phil Rockstroh ”Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the world.” ― John Fowles, from The Magus Photo: Black Friday Sale courtesy of Fashion.bg. In the consumer paradigm, one is induced to exist by Eric Hoffer’s dictum: “You can never get enough of what you really don’t need.” Wherein: The individual exists in [...]
“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.” — Albert Camus. By Phil Rockstroh [Photo: The relocation the indigenous people of Chiapas for exploitation of the forests where they lived. Photo by Orin Langelle at Edin Chiapas] The repercussions of our acts — the constructs we create — endure well [...]
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.” — William Faulkner By Phil Rockstroh In an era of corporate-state colonization of both landscape and mental real estate, when the face of one’s true oppressors is, more often than not, hidden from view, thus inflicting feelings of anxiety borne of powerlessness over the criteria of one’s life and the [...]
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.” ―James Baldwin By Phil Rockstroh East Cliff, West Bay, Dorset. Photo courtesy Andalas Blog As we draw near to the Winter Solstice and [...]
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