Category: Mass Culture
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Art, "art", Nazis, drawing a line...
Prosecutors in Poland have opened an investigation into reports that a Swedish artist used ashes from the Nazi death camp at Majdanek in a painting. [1] Our modern civilization has turned everything into a pulp. Artists just provoke, without caring for aesthetics, without conveying anything from within their soul, without love, without feelings. A line…
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Instagram, "freedom", freedom, illusions...
Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January, they cannot opt out. The move riled social media users, with one likening it to a "suicide note". Most users have fiercely reacted to…
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Philosophy is AGAINST democracy. By default!
All great philosophers have in one way or the other been against democracy. And this is something we must always have into account. From Socrates and his "who will rule the boat" question, to Nietzsche, Plato and Heidegger, all great philosophers have been away from the masses. It could not be the other way around anyway.…
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