Meritocracy is a system that rewards the best and brightest. People in meritocracy are rewarded based on their accomplishments.
An hour with a wise person worth more than one thousand books
- Chinese Proverb
- Chinese Proverb
Forwarded from ineffable♾ (mawj)
This media is not supported in your browser
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
Forwarded from Conatus (zak)
One can rightly sum up modern and contemporary art in this: “I just like it this way, it shows how I feel.”
It is the age where art has become, as Lukács correctly said, a luxury item for idle parasites. It is the age where the religion of pity has turned suffering into a way of being; hence, its sickness lies in what Pascal Bruckner encapsulated thus: “I suffer so I am.” It is the age of sentimentalism, and the age where in every individual a Romantic lies hidden. Romanticism is a symptom of decline that manifests itself in weak, self-detesting intellect and 'instincts', to paraphrase Spengler slightly. When Romanticism (and sentimentalism) manifests itself, it creates men who are infantile; “men who remain children too long (or forever).”
Modern and contemporary artists lack any sense of intellectual honesty; it is to them “too masculine, too healthy, too sober.” It is the same sentimentality that makes you “impelled by the morbid idea of reforming society” and liberating everything from the past manners of discipline. By saying that they “like it this way,” they are trying so badly to compensate for their lack of artistic talent. To be untalented is the norm today, and to be trained to be worse with time is the zenith of creativity and originality.
It is the age where art has become, as Lukács correctly said, a luxury item for idle parasites. It is the age where the religion of pity has turned suffering into a way of being; hence, its sickness lies in what Pascal Bruckner encapsulated thus: “I suffer so I am.” It is the age of sentimentalism, and the age where in every individual a Romantic lies hidden. Romanticism is a symptom of decline that manifests itself in weak, self-detesting intellect and 'instincts', to paraphrase Spengler slightly. When Romanticism (and sentimentalism) manifests itself, it creates men who are infantile; “men who remain children too long (or forever).”
Modern and contemporary artists lack any sense of intellectual honesty; it is to them “too masculine, too healthy, too sober.” It is the same sentimentality that makes you “impelled by the morbid idea of reforming society” and liberating everything from the past manners of discipline. By saying that they “like it this way,” they are trying so badly to compensate for their lack of artistic talent. To be untalented is the norm today, and to be trained to be worse with time is the zenith of creativity and originality.