Minstrel by choice, opera singer by trade,
Joined January 2015
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"They constantly try to escape
From the darkness outside and within
By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.
But the man that is will shadow
The man that pretends to be."
-T.S. Eliot
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It should not have ended this way,but Spring will come, the grass will grow and the Liberal Party will rise again .
@PageauJonathan , I've become a father of two since we last spoke. My eldest has become interested in "baby Jesus" . Christmas is fast approaching and I want to relay to her the importance/ principle of Christ's sacrifice in the simplest of terms. I've formulated the following:
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This is Jupiter and Semele, painted in 1895 by a French artist called Gustave Moreau.
It might not look "modern", but Moreau influenced everybody from Picasso to Matisse to Dalí.
Here's how Gustave Moreau invented modern art...
When members of the electorate are too easily swayed to reject or approve based on a single issue, they have abandoned their responsibility as free-thinking agents integral to the greater whole. Faction ensues.
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Musician and producer Jacob Collier frequently experiments with audience during his tours. This is how he turns his entire concert audience into a choir, signalling at different sections to move up or down a note
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Should artists have a right to remain silent with regards to geo-political issues regardless of the context?
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Human rights tribunal says the quiet part out loud: white people cannot claim discrimination. My latest for @fpcomment:
financialpost.com/opinion/on…
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Julius Evola wrote that we are living through a "destructive spiritual process" and one of its symptoms is a corruption of traditional symbols. In his essay "The Inversion Of Symbols," Evola shows that when communism won, it FLIPPED upside down the meaning of 3 vital symbols👇🏻
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“It’s what I called ‘structural stupidity’... And when the moderates, or when anyone is afraid to question the dominant view, the organization, the institution, gets stupid,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tells @BillWhitakerCBS. cbsn.ws/3sZXXjz
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My latest--and dare I say it best--book is out in paperback. On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times. Here's the introduction. Hope you enjoy
michaelignatieff.ca/article/…