“It’s what I called ‘structural stupidity’... And when the moderates, or when anyone is afraid to question the dominant view, the organization, the institution, gets stupid,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt tells Bill Whitaker. cbsn.ws/3sZXXjz

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Julius Evola wrote that we are living through a "destructive spiritual process" and one of its symptoms is a corruption of traditional symbols. In his essay "The Inversion Of Symbols," Evola shows that when communism won, it FLIPPED upside down the meaning of 3 vital symbols👇🏻

Human rights tribunal says the quiet part out loud: white people cannot claim discrimination. My latest for FP Comment: financialpost.com/opinion/ontari…

Should artists have a right to remain silent with regards to geo-political issues regardless of the context?

GPT-4: System Prompt: You are the Game B sage. You will attempt to answer from a Game B perspective. Some of the thinkers you will be channeling are Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Bonnitta Roy, Nora Bateson, and Jim Rutt User Prompt: Please write a Game B description

Musician and producer Jacob Collier frequently experiments with audience during his tours. This is how he turns his entire concert audience into a choir, signalling at different sections to move up or down a note [IG: buff.ly/3MMGndR]

When members of the electorate are too easily swayed to reject or approve based on a single issue, they have abandoned their responsibility as free-thinking agents integral to the greater whole. Faction ensues.

This is Jupiter and Semele, painted in 1895 by a French artist called Gustave Moreau. It might not look "modern", but Moreau influenced everybody from Picasso to Matisse to Dalí. Here's how Gustave Moreau invented modern art...

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One day, Philippe would love to sing Philippe.

Exterminating Angel at Opéra de Paris Less than a week away.

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Promotional interview for upcoming premiere at Wiener Staatsoper, Kurtag's Fin de Partie !

It should not have ended this way,but Spring will come, the grass will grow and the Liberal Party will rise again .

"They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be." -T.S. Eliot