@caldwell_e88048 I have to say, I’ve enjoyed observing the ‘sentimentalist’ emerge from the hard, pitiless mask you wore when I first encountered your work
@caldwell_e88048@nosilverv Following Elias, perhaps this tendency owes something to the decisive influence of court society, where lucid, dispassionate observation of others was a social necessity. But individual genius seems more important in these matters than ‘sociology’
Because of climate change I can no longer experience each year the seasons I knew and loved in my youth. Many conservatives in my view fail to appreciate the implications of this for the loss of local character and tradition
It is in part (I think) Janacek’s disregard for traditional symphonic development, and the leitmotif technique, that gives his work its vital and primitive qualities, even as he avails himself of a most sophisticated harmonic and timbral palette
The music of Leos Janacek is for me the definitive expression of a kind of this-worldly spirituality: a deep reverence for life because life is strong, passionate, because life has energy. The essential idea of his art is Love=Life, the antithesis of
@littmath Because what is passed as objective judgement is really a valuation of an individual/group, (e.g., higher productivity earns greater reward). I take pleasure (irresponsibly?) in the thought of a class who no longer masks that their judgements are based on whims (or passions)
I think this is right. Something I’m curious about: granting we get strong AGI/ASI, it will plausibly, as Dwarkesh and Trammell predict, cause massive inequality and entrench the power of capital. At the same time, it will undermine the strongest existing justifications for
Love and hate, lust and revulsion are complimentary. They are energizing emotions. To love, to hate is the opposite of indifference, of enervation, of lassitude.
Let us not forget those activities performed for the sake of pleasure, and whose aim is not the preservation of the least blessed among us, but the exaltation of those upon which nature has bestowed her greatest favors: the brilliant, the strong!
I love conversing with women who are intimate with one another. I love how they playfully comment on my speech or repeat a phrase I had uttered with a sidelong glance and a wry smile. I love the light mockery with which they regard my preoccupations
I hate every minute I must devote to things of a scientific nature. I’d prefer to be carried through my days on a current of unreflective sensation and sentiment. But as a weak person, science is one of my few means to gain power, and I love power.
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