David B. Calhoun’s Blog

Well, for the better or for the worse I’m going to try to make this blog look more professional (oh noeeeess!!!), so it’s gonna look more boring than usual. Also, there will probably be tons of new philosophy entries if all goes well - I need to get back on the ball with writing all the ideas that come to mind. Especially when I read books, etc. Half the time I don’t write them down and I can’t remember the idea I had.

Anyhow, if you want you can just bookmark all entries made in the “General” category. Here’s the link for that: http://themaingate.net/blog/index.php?cat=1

So just a warning - expect lots of abstract and weird philosophy output from me (if all goes well, that is).

So I guess we’re right now in the middle of the age of art. I just was browsing through the internet and I found a book called “The Substance of Style”, a recently published book which argues this point. Fashion is becoming the obsession of the entire world.

I know that we’ve always been fashionable people, but are we more fashionable today than ever before? Maybe. What else is there, after all? The postmodernist has made Truth something not to be desired, so let’s instead feast on entertainment, aesthetics, and ourselves!

My greatest fear is that there will be no waking up from this deep slumber that the world is in. We are all too content publishing millions of meaningless books. This includes Romance novels. (more…)