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Modern Racism - Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:44:20 +0000
Contents: There are two attitudes that have come to define the modern American perspective on racism. The first preaches that racism is a hideous moral crime and that anyone who is racist is a monster on a par with a killer or a child molester. The second flaunts racism as a badge of authenticity, and suggests that anyone who is forthright about his or her racial prejudices is an honest voice, an iconoclast, a freedom fighter and and true patriot. Although these two attitudes seem like polar opposites, they are in fact closely linked. In addition, both are equally misguided, and equally dangerous.

Tags: Philosophy, Race, Social Issues, Martin Luther King, modernity, prejudice, racism,

I Love This Song - Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:01:05 +0000
Contents: I heard recently that studies have shown that if people hear the same thing over and over again, they are more likely to a) believe it is a widely held opinion and b) believe it is true, even if it is just the same source that repeats the information over and over.

Tags: Music, Popular Culture, Videos, experiment, love, Philosophy, Song, subliminal, Video, viral,

Coy Dog Waltz - Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:32:04 +0000
Contents: Recently, my friend Yen Lee Loh gave me a great gift: a recording of my instrumental piece for two violins and piano, the “Coy Dog Waltz” (named after the half-dog half-coyote hybrids of Southeastern Ohio). Loh, a multi-talented instrumentalist, is playing all three parts on this recording, through the magic of overdubs. Coy Dog Waltz [...]

Tags: Music, coy dog waltz, instrumental, piano, violin, violins, waltz, yen lee loh,

Kehinde Wiley: Reconstructivist Art - Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:29:38 +0000
Contents: I was recently asked to consider artist Kehinde Wiley as an exemplar of Reconstructivist Art. (Please refer back to my original essay for an explanation of the term and a listing of other influential artists working within the same model). From Wiley’s commissioned show at the Columbus Museum of Art, which featured Columbus area subjects [...]

Tags: Art, Reconstructivist Art,

Every Day the Same Dream - Sun, 06 Jun 2010 03:51:05 +0000
Contents: I'm not usually one to rave about a video game, but this simple, easy to play , quick to complete game changed my entire evaluation of the potential of video games as an art form. A dark, existential humanist parable about an office drone, the game uses a severely limited set of options and locations as a strength rather than a weakness

Tags: Art, Dreams, Existentialism, Games, Humanism, existential, humanist, video game,

Reconstructivist Art - Mon, 31 May 2010 23:06:33 +0000
Contents: to reawaken a sense of the Real in a world where everything has been demonstrated to be an illusion

Tags: Art, Literature, Movies, Music, Philosophy, Popular Culture, Reconstructivist Art,

Notable Multiracial People - Mon, 31 May 2010 22:54:57 +0000
Contents: A listing of famous mulitracial people adapted from a deleted Wikipedia article.

Tags: Popular Culture,

Kierkegaard?s Narrative - Mon, 31 May 2010 22:52:30 +0000
Contents: "Kierkegaard's Narrative" is an existential humanist plot outline named after the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. In general, it runs as follows: An aimless young man drifts through life, obsessed with aesthetics, and seeking sexual fulfillment with a series of women, yet never making substantive choices or real commitments. The climax of the story is the protagonist's decision to commit to a single woman, and to enter into marriage.

The raw source material for this plotline is found in Kierkegaard's books "Either/Or," "Fear and Trembling," and "Repetition," in which he takes on the persona of various first-person narrators, and describes their experiences.

Tags: Existentialism, Humanism, Literature, Movies, Philosophy, Popular Culture, existential, humanism, kierkegaard,

History of Humanism - Mon, 31 May 2010 22:44:10 +0000
Contents: Humanism has reemerged in many different times and places, each time with a unique ?flavor?.

Tags: Humanism, Philosophy, classical, history, humanism, religious, secular, traditional,

Christian Existential Humanism - Mon, 31 May 2010 22:39:52 +0000
Contents: Repost: December, 31st, 2004 Christian Existential Humanism …is Christianity with an Existentialist perspective and a Humanist social project; all as found in the teachings of Jesus. …is firmly grounded in the Bible, particularly in the Canonical Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), The Acts of the Apostles and the Letter of James, from the New [...]

Tags: Christian Existential Humanism, Philosophy, Religion, Christian, existential, humanism,