Author Archives: Robert

About Robert

English, and a baffling cliche.

What are we Actually trying to prove?

This one, no links, no analysis, just a good old fashioned post-about-a-post, the first and last you’ll get from me, I swear.
“For if Tasso, ‘fashioned in the pure poetry of the atmosphere of antiquity, who showed more judgment and genius than any other Italian for many a long year’, now finds himself ‘in so wretched a state, surviving… Read the rest

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Robert | Tagged , , , , | 14 Comments

Religion and Capitalism, or: We are all still Christians.

Religion and Capitalism, or: We are all still Christians.

Just the one more, I think. And then I’ll leave you alone.
One
Marx: “They do not know it, but they are doing it.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLp5m9PiQQ0
A question: “Who does he think he is? Who is he preening for? Who does he think is watching him?”
An answer: You. None of that happens without you. Whether you think “Ooh, look… Read the rest

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Robert | Tagged , , , , , , | 97 Comments

Meaning Beyond Question, or: Even if there is no God, there is a God.

Meaning Beyond Question, or: Even if there is no God, there is a God.

Uno:
You’ll have to forgive me, this has become quite bloated. I’ve interspersed hilarious Spanish numbers as segment headings. Watch this:

This is an article about how music like the above is neo-atheist-Christian propaganda designed to sell you the concept of an external, immortal soul, manifested in the form of bright lights and light Indie music, and what that… Read the rest

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Robert | Tagged , , | 28 Comments

Germaine Greer, the Moseleys and the Master-Slave Dialectic

Germaine Greer, the Moseleys and the Master-Slave Dialectic

You’ll have to forgive me, I have no idea how to make this link all embedded and sexy and turn you on and make you come. Instead, self-deprecating editorializing! – LET’S GO.

Watching Question Time* recently, with Germaine Greer terrifying audiences with a post-Freudian Freudianism and Peter Hitchens admirably sticking to a party-line of reductive (yet profitable) nonsense, I… Read the rest

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Robert | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 46 Comments