Surely romanticism was another, more contemporary reaction to the over-reach of Enlightenment rationality?
Goethe in particular seems to embody the spirit of balance between mind and spirit, reason and intuition. He's honored more in the breech than in practice, unfortunately; and remembered more for his literary than for his scientific work. Modern society doesn't know what to make of polymaths. You can see this in the way we educate our youth: rather than aiming for balanced, fully developed human beings, we encourage them to become all brain (scientists, engineers, programmers), all heart (artists), or all brawn (athletes). The result is scientists with no emotional strength, and artists who believe nonsense.
You are absolutely right, John. There were several art movements that followed the enlightenment and reacted to it in different ways. I think it is correct to say that Leftism is one of them. I wonder why it was the one that got such a strong-hold on our society compared to the others such as Symbolism and Romanticism.
Leftism and Marxism attempt the impossible in creating a future that is predictable and static, they call it scientific, but it is nothing of the sort. One cannot look at an ant colony and say this ant should pick up that leaf, it's clearly an absurdity. Regimenting humans is even more absurd and even more likely to lead to the end of that species. It is the misuse of reason where it is not applicable. They do the same with emotion, their emotions über alles, even if it means the destruction of others. They are full of hubris and mendacity, always a dangerous combination. Blaming the enlightenment for the state of adults who really should know better is, I think, a grave mistake. They have chosen a path, one that is destructive to others, like all those who have done so before, they must be stopped.
I find it interesting to watch reason and intuition interplay in media, from Crockett and Tubbs in Miami Vice to Mulder and Scully in the X-Files. One can see the coarsening and degradation of society in the loss of that duality today.
Surely romanticism was another, more contemporary reaction to the over-reach of Enlightenment rationality?
Goethe in particular seems to embody the spirit of balance between mind and spirit, reason and intuition. He's honored more in the breech than in practice, unfortunately; and remembered more for his literary than for his scientific work. Modern society doesn't know what to make of polymaths. You can see this in the way we educate our youth: rather than aiming for balanced, fully developed human beings, we encourage them to become all brain (scientists, engineers, programmers), all heart (artists), or all brawn (athletes). The result is scientists with no emotional strength, and artists who believe nonsense.
You are absolutely right, John. There were several art movements that followed the enlightenment and reacted to it in different ways. I think it is correct to say that Leftism is one of them. I wonder why it was the one that got such a strong-hold on our society compared to the others such as Symbolism and Romanticism.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. - The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats.
Nothing is static. Everything is evolving. Everything is falling apart. - Tyler Durden, Fight Club
The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth
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Leftism and Marxism attempt the impossible in creating a future that is predictable and static, they call it scientific, but it is nothing of the sort. One cannot look at an ant colony and say this ant should pick up that leaf, it's clearly an absurdity. Regimenting humans is even more absurd and even more likely to lead to the end of that species. It is the misuse of reason where it is not applicable. They do the same with emotion, their emotions über alles, even if it means the destruction of others. They are full of hubris and mendacity, always a dangerous combination. Blaming the enlightenment for the state of adults who really should know better is, I think, a grave mistake. They have chosen a path, one that is destructive to others, like all those who have done so before, they must be stopped.
I find it interesting to watch reason and intuition interplay in media, from Crockett and Tubbs in Miami Vice to Mulder and Scully in the X-Files. One can see the coarsening and degradation of society in the loss of that duality today.
"Jaques Louis David was a French neo-classical painter born in 1848": presumably 1748?