Archives for November 2025

“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and I wouldn’t lose any voters.” Donald Trump (January 23, 2016) “But why did the hero of the tragedy have to suffer, and what was the meaning of his ‘tragic’ guilt? We will cut short the discussion by a prompt answer. He had to suffer because he was the primal father, the hero of that primordial tragedy the repetition of which here serves a certain tendency, and the tragic guilt is the guilt which he had to take upon himself in order to free the chorus of theirs.” Sigmund Freud (Totem and Taboo) "This simplicity corresponds to the position taken by the music towards its theme: it is the position of the highly entertained … [Read more...]