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The Real Thieves
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A good article on how the real thieves are corporations. Disregard the news, the bank robberies, petty thefts, the real villains are all in suits:
The Dreams of Nicholas Bruno
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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A victim of sleep paralysis he wakes in a hypnopompic state, subject to terrifying nightmares, then recreates and photographs them.
Very good.
There's abundant more on his website - Link: http://www.nicolasbrunophotography.com/PORTFOLIO
Plato, Democracy and Dictatorship
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"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty."
˜ Plato
Arthur Danto: The End of Art
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A good article interpreting Arthur Danto's essay "The End of Art".
Link: https://hyperallergic.com/191329/an-illustrated-guide-to-arthur-dantos-the-end-of-art/
And, if you're fussy about sources, the original article (.pdf): https://moodle.ufsc.br/pluginfile.php/1407250/mod_resource/content/1/Danto%20-%20A%20philosophical%20Defense.pdf
Meanwhile, to note, this has been considered before, consider's Hegel's end of art thesis: http://www.rae.com.pt/Danto%20hegel%20end%20art.pdf
Which might be referring to an entirely different idea.
Meanwhile, I'll leave you these:
Ecclesiastes 1:9
"The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
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