To consider the extent to which media is fused and blended with consciousness gives one pause.
Certain connections suggest themselves: meaning may be clarified or confused. Choices may be consciously made, or be no more than the result of having come to no alternative, emotion having superseded the faculty of reason-- the latter neither understood, developed, or experienced.
Unselfconsciousness is no substitute for self- awareness.
Vicarious experience of reality does not suffice to replace human knowledge, any more than political ideology is a substitute for wisdom. Distinctions are either made between the general and the specific, or they are not; the differences between a vine and a poisonous vine, as between actions taken according to intent or impulse, are significant.
Love for the object of one's desire is not equal to love for another human being.
Music to enhance a contemplative atmosphere and state of mind can, beyond evoking aesthetic beauty and pleasure, contribute to creative and intuitive reasoning, lucidity of perception, and more.
This is the raison d'etre of my work.
Certain connections suggest themselves: meaning may be clarified or confused. Choices may be consciously made, or be no more than the result of having come to no alternative, emotion having superseded the faculty of reason-- the latter neither understood, developed, or experienced.
Unselfconsciousness is no substitute for self- awareness.
Vicarious experience of reality does not suffice to replace human knowledge, any more than political ideology is a substitute for wisdom. Distinctions are either made between the general and the specific, or they are not; the differences between a vine and a poisonous vine, as between actions taken according to intent or impulse, are significant.
Love for the object of one's desire is not equal to love for another human being.
Music to enhance a contemplative atmosphere and state of mind can, beyond evoking aesthetic beauty and pleasure, contribute to creative and intuitive reasoning, lucidity of perception, and more.
This is the raison d'etre of my work.
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