” ‘Originality’ is the unsought and unnoticed product of a gifted artist’s successful attempt to be honest and truthful and to penetrate to the origins,…
Illustrator: unknown “Every thing must have a beginning, to speak in Sanchean phrase; and that beginning must be linked to something that went before. The…
“Trees in particular were mysterious and seemed to me direct embodiments of the incomprehensible meaning of life. For that reason the woods were the place…
“A great idea in the background of a dim consciousness is like a phantom ocean beating upon the shores of human life in successive waves of specialization. A whole succession of such waves are slowly doing their work of sapping the base of some cliff of habit.”
Alfred North Whitehead, 'Adventures of Ideas'
My feeling is that Donald Trump’s crass intelligence is akin to a nasty boil coming to the surface and that it will illustrate the emptiness of power, patriotism and capitalism for once and for all, it represents the dying vestiges of an obsolete system that many our clinging on to in one last ditch attempt. This is my hope.