High Culture Quest

The ideas that the  Star Wars franchise is based on are the Mythological motifs that creator George Lucas learned about from the scholar of Comparative Religions scholar  Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell was an interesting figure who is usually affiliated with the psychological thinker Carl Jung. These mythological motifs Campbell believed in are the underpinnings of all the belief systems of humanity, which has a lot to do with the power of the unconscious (dreams and their complete mystery) . I personally always believed these facts are hard and even impossible to deny from what we know about human history ,biology and psychology. As they relate to Star Wars however it involves the idea of The Hero which is found in every Human Mythology and every Religion. As for the setting of Star Wars these fascinating ideas are boiled down in a quasi-religious way into The Force. The Force is the starting point for all philosophical discussions about Star Wars, bot in and out of c...

                                                       My first language is English, and  unfortunately I must write in this funny and obnoxious tongue for the benefits of my audience... Up until the past few years or so I have not given that a great deal of thought. Until I realized how subjective of a language it is. What really prompted this was the frustration at the fact I could not speak Italian my ancestral tongue, which I always heard growing up. I understood the basic phrases, many of which were the local dialect of my grand parents. I always was interested in Italian culture and indeed continental European culture as whole, ever since I can remember I would dream about being there whether I was in the Swiss alps or in the sands of Sicily. There many reasons for my recent troubles with the tongue of the Anglosphere many of them are...

This chilly Advent I have been very thankful for the cold weather. Yes I love cold weather, the pain it gives one is far more easy to deal for me then the irritation of sweat. New Englanders are not always like this that's why so many of them fly to Florida for the winter. That tells a lot of what kind of New Englander I am in one sentence: An Italian American Catholic, who loves Monarchy, Order and Liberty. Most of these terms are not unfound in the history of this great province, we did have a King, the Anglicans here largely supported the Throne and loved Order, and the Puritans loved Liberty (at least according to the American founding mythos). All these things are hard to reconcile for Southerners who see my province as largely liberal and secular, which is true now to some degree, but if you look at the history its rather mixed, certainly as a Catholic I don't revere the memory of the Puritan founders, but if you ignore the Puritan element here there is a l...

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The standard Xbox One is a dynamic gaming system that allows you to play a wide variety of games, if you have an eclectic taste in gaming this is a step up I think from other consoles like the PS4 and especially the Nintendo Switch. My initial complaint was not enough backwards compatibility which they have now rectified with availability for original Xbox games like the classic work of art Star Wars Knights of The Old Republic and some more Xbox 360 games.          I would recommend getting an Xbox One if your into an eclectic console with pretty good backwards compatibility, you'll be able to play great Xbox 360 hits and awesome Xbox original classics. You'll of course be able to play the recent big titles and cool indie games.

Modernism has been presented in all forms of art in (don't be shocked!)  the modern world. When it was fashionable it made writing boring dull and un-lyrical.  There are some exceptions and there are modernists I enjoy, most notably TS Eliot. My main quarrel with most Modernism in writing and art in general, is that it has no ascetical beauty to it. Take a writer like Virginia Woolf, in contrast to my favorite poet other than, Yeats, Gerard Manley Hopkins, whose prose was all about his own self expression of the beauty of the presence of God,  Virginia Woolf  was iconoclastic against lyrical beauty, from the stories I have read from her. She's been called a "stream of consciousness writer" and to be fair she does a pretty good job at details, but as I said the ascetic beauty is rather lacking. In her "A Haunted House." she seems to be suggesting the most utterly absurd idea that ghost stories should prohibit a real belief in the supernatural in contrast...