Simon Finn 🇦🇺

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[PhilosophiCat @Philosophi_Cat]

https://t.co/wX6EQN5Eqd

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@germanicgems @SkogEnjoyer Thanks you kindly for the link.. I am looking forward to reading.

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@germanicgems @SkogEnjoyer Have you released this yet? Any links?

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@Tom_Rowsell @germanicgems Most appreciated

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

In LOTR, the shire spent so long sheltered from evil that it began to think evil did not exist.

The west is like the shire.

We must save the shire.

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@lauramatsue Nah... as a sheep farmer, that's far from reality.

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Not fake n gey.

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@Year_of_Jubilee Banger.. cheers for posting... easy watching.

[Violet @Year_of_Jubilee]

Goodnight 😴🌙

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“We know they are lying. They know they are lying. They know that we know they are lying. We know that they know that we know they are lying. But they are still lying.” - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

[Kurt Mahlburg @k_mahlburg]

Tony Armstrong told ABC viewers the First Fleet committed genocide by intentionally introducing smallpox to Aboriginal people.

The foremost historian on the subject disagrees. So does the virus itself.

A thread on what happens when ideology replaces evidence 🧵

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Ha.. what are you doing?

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Few fucken onions… Garlic and spuds next.

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Merry Yule.

[Simon Finn 🇦🇺 @SimonFinnArtist]

The everyday maintenance of complex systems is their greatest vulnerability.

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Spengler's take on art (and why western art is in terminal decline) is fascinating.

For all cultures, the first true art form is architecture. This is the most immediate expression of a culture's "world-feeling". All other art forms then spring out from the architecture...

For Western culture, upward-reaching cathedrals were inspired by the forests of Northern Europe.

The prime symbol of Western culture is the perception of infinite space — a yearning to reach out of the darkness of the trees to the light beyond.

Later art forms all came from the cathedrals. Notice how sculptures of saints were originally attached to the cathedral, but later stepped out of the architecture to stand on their own feet.

Likewise, fresco paintings became detached from the walls as standalone oil paintings, and even classical music came from Gregorian chant, for which the cathedral was designed to carry and amplify.

Even western drama came from religious ceremonies (Spengler talks about how western drama is confessional in nature).

This is because all art forms (and all non-natural expressions of life) originate from religion. They may separate themselves physically from the church over time, but are still fundamentally tied to that metaphysical expression.

You cannot define individual art forms because they all blend into each other. Sculpture, painting, and music are merely words, and they are nothing without the prime urge that created them. This is why to define what art is you have to extract the cultural form, or the "inner form-language".

The artists of the present (in the Western culture) aren't really engaged in "art" at all, but merely a kind of craftsmanship. It lacks the spontaneity and necessity of the word-feeling that birthed the culture’s artistic expression.

"Of great painting or great music there can no longer be, for Western people, any question. Their architectural possibilities have been exhausted these hundred years. Only extensive possibilities are left to them."