Look at all the people in history Who ever gained a reputation For wisdom. Solomon, Confucius, Socrates, Plato, Buddha, and more, Each one made a point to warn us Of how little we know, and how much we do not and cannot know. Each one was careful to remind us Of how much they themselves did not know. Now look at all the people in history Who have boasted of their own great knowledge, Who have insisted that they had no need to learn from others, Because they knew everything -

John Linnell: The words I’m singing now mean nothing more than meow to an animal.

Why is art so important? Why is market capitalism not enough to govern a society? Why should I have to pay taxes for publicly-funded art, or for university art departments?

I am an artist. I am here to close the sad rift between "should" and "is" By changing what "is".

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Verbum caro factus est As is so often the case We have all demonstrably fallen prey To the demons to whom we have prayed. And to sloppy use of language. Long before the Before Times, There were sages and scholars Who called themselves The Enlightenment. They believed that rational, logical discourse Could be relied upon to reach truth. They believed that every argument should be heard, And all evidence should be considered, And processed logically by all In order to reach a r

A concept has been growing in the world Of educational philosophy Across the last few decades, so it seems. The thought is not explicit,...

Today I can be grateful for one thing: My life, my world, my hopes were never built On taking the goodness of human nature for granted....

There is all the difference in the world Between inspiring emotion And manipulating emotions. There is all the difference in the world Between motivating people And controlling people There is all the difference in the world Between grabbing a person by the earlobe and telling them how to feel And Art. Greed never creates; it only ever destroys.

[A rant. Skip this if you can't bear the content of a rant about cant, or are too busy just now to defend sacred cows. There will...

How much misery do we create in the world By overthinking the wrong things And underthinking the right ones. As I type this, I note that the spell-check function In the text editor Recognizes "overthinking" as a word, but not "underthinking". So confident are we that the problem is always thinking too much And never not thinking enough. I have a thinking feeling about this. How about overfeeling and underfeeling? It looks like those both earn a "not-a-word" flag. So the comp