T. S. Eliot’s The Hollow Men and Sean Dempsey’s America, 2023 both confront the spiritual and moral decay of civilization, but they do so from opposite emotional poles. Eliot’s poem is elegiac: a whispered lament for a world hollowed out by inertia and disillusionment. His “stuffed men” drift without agency, trapped in the shadow between […]
The false dichotomy of this election representing “good vs evil” has come up repeatedly in many/most of the political discussions I’ve had on fb recently. I assert this false binary occurs for three reasons: A) a failure to see a beyond stark black/white options we have created in our minds, b) the result of the […]
Wise men once asked ‘what good a man gain the whole world but lose his own soul…’Might he sacrifice all that he loves to attain some nebulous goal?For what tragic fool seeking LIFE would trade family, freedom, and song? Would seeking some ‘right,’ at all costs, engender more wrong? By this token, what purpose hath […]
