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 | May 3, 2023 | Geopolitics
On the verge of history’s first wave of globalization, Victorian imperialists venturing into foreign and undiscovered countries had to maintain an ever-deeper connection to the ways of the motherland. The temptations of the opium to wash away the grueling and the...
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 | Nov 23, 2021 | Poetry
Loss is a strange thing. We want the thing possessed by a departed friend to remain true about the world. Yet despite our memory and the many sweet gifts they gave us, we somehow imagine the world will no longer carry the beauty they embodied. We want the gifts they...
