why, indeed, o wise one. When I was an itty-bitty I saw a production of Don Quixote on tv (I think with Rex Harrison). Therein someone said to him "Beware, gentle knight, there is no greater monster than reason." I never forgot that. We are in good company!
I see too many things (nations, corporations, social/cultural institutions) and people with this look in their eyes. Crazed. For me, it perfectly expresses humanities(although portrayed by a GOD) maniacal obsession with power, getting to the point of blind obsession and maintaining control at any cost.
When Saturn eats his son he sees nothing. He doesn't his own bitten torso. He is afraid. He is looking out into a blackness of confusion and it enrages him. He is filled with a deep, encompassing paranoia and madness that has no rational.
I worry that the (almost) whole of our country is reflected in this painting.
Has it ever been any different? The question should not be: What is the state of the world? But rather the move from: How should we consider the state of the world? to: Why should we consider it thusly?
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The only question worth asking: why?
why, indeed, o wise one. When I was an itty-bitty I saw a production of Don Quixote on tv (I think with Rex Harrison). Therein someone said to him "Beware, gentle knight, there is no greater monster than reason." I never forgot that. We are in good company!
I see too many things (nations, corporations, social/cultural institutions) and people with this look in their eyes. Crazed. For me, it perfectly expresses humanities(although portrayed by a GOD) maniacal obsession with power, getting to the point of blind obsession and maintaining control at any cost.
When Saturn eats his son he sees nothing. He doesn't his own bitten torso. He is afraid. He is looking out into a blackness of confusion and it enrages him. He is filled with a deep, encompassing paranoia and madness that has no rational.
I worry that the (almost) whole of our country is reflected in this painting.
Has it ever been any different? The question should not be: What is the state of the world? But rather the move from: How should we consider the state of the world? to: Why should we consider it thusly?
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