THE HERMES IN BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S — John Mayer RSS

. . . the planets have aligned in such a way that Pluto is where it was for the American and French Revolutions, Uranus is in the position of WWII and the Holocaust, all the first returns since those times, and now Neptune will enter 0˚ Aries, with the last time it being there was the beginning of the American Civil War. It's a good time to be named after a Civil War battle and look back into #BattleStudies and what art can do. From a time when the highest attainments have been prescribed as profits and commercialism, ‘sell, sell, sell!’ and now as those billionaires are set on tearing down the very systems that enabled them, tearing down the garden, the...

In the Homeric epics Penelope only says one thing to show the misplaced values of the culture when, from the disastrous outcome of the Judgment of Paris that lead to the Trojan War, when what is love and beauty was decided solely on surface appearances: Helen. The key to the entire epics, the very foundation of Western culture, its eternal Song--and shows its fault line, is when Penelope says that "Helen didn't know."Artists see deep into the eternal and truths. They are able to excavate and mine what is real and bring it to humanity. Willa Cather was such an author, the Grateful Dead such a band. A person who just wants the appearances of being an author or singer...