by rosswcalvin | Sep 1, 2024 | Aesthetics, Prometheism
“I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.” – Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra Man is the sculptor and the sculpted. Just as Prometheus fashions Man out of clay, like a sculptor would, and...
by rosswcalvin | Jan 1, 2023 | Aesthetics, Geopolitics, Prometheism
“In the thought of tomorrow there is a power to upheave all the creeds of the nations, and marshal thee to a heaven which no epic dream has depicted. Every man is not so much a workman in the world, as he is a suggestion of the (which) he should be. Men walk as...
by rosswcalvin | Aug 28, 2022 | Aesthetics, Localism
“Beauty is making the perfect of the good.” -Aristotle Our way of life requires far more attention to and care for our communities, families and friendships and far less arrogant outsourcing of the things which bind us to sources of confusion. Aesthetic...
by rosswcalvin | Sep 11, 2021 | Aesthetics, Architecture
There was a joke on the Soviets: as the West invented the personal computer, the USSR reached its greatest cement production in history. China now produces more cement than the rest of the world combined. We are left with the sense that our modern brand of...
by rosswcalvin | Apr 4, 2021 | Aesthetics
“No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down myself. I have the power to lay it down, and I have the power to take it again. this commandment I have received from my Father.” -John 10:18 The cheerful, immediate relationship of a Sunday afternoon in April,...
by rosswcalvin | Mar 20, 2021 | Aesthetics, Poetry
Poetry orders the soul. The deliberate meter of language husbands something transcendent within us that makes us remember we belong. Poetry educates us about the beauty of the world. While in one hand opening the daily existence to the possibility of an expansiveness...