From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, part two European communist states were, perhaps, the ultimate manifestation of the modern conflation of technological development with progress. But with such [...] By David A. J. Reynolds | November 9, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Religion, Society | Christianity, Communism, Distraction, Empire, Happiness, Heidegger, Industry, Knowledge, Materialism, Michael Sacasas, Narcissism, Progress, Russia, Science, Secularism, Soviet Union, Space Race, Stalin, Steel, Sublime, Technological Determinism, The Frailest Thing, Transcendence Read more
From the Sublime to the Ridiculous, part one It is exactly two hundred years ago that Byron, Percy Shelley, and his wife, Mary Shelley, were sequestered by a [...] By David A. J. Reynolds | November 2, 2016 | Culture, Economics, Philosophy, Religion, Society | Christianity, Communism, Empire, Frankenstein, Genesis, God, Industry, Invention, Literature, Omnipotence, Poetry, Progress, Science, Secularism, Sublime, Transcendence, Walt Whitman Read more