Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty

Inspiration and Stimulations for Your Vagus Nerve: AKA: YOUR GUT FEELINGS

We are so obsessed with seeing if AI can do the things we do, but the real potential is things humans are in capable of. What can’t you do that is now possible? 

I have a different view of the value of music. I believe music is a source of enchantment and a change agent in human life. So in my economics, a song can possess great value

We crave encounters; we crave fire. Or rather: we crave those experiences that will set us on fire. But the time has come in which we need to re-create fire.

Gauntlet thrown.

Artists cannot simply ignore his charge that our failures are uniquely volatile threats to the social order.

Who is he that shall control me?

Why may not I act & speak & write & think

with entire freedom? What am I to the

Universe, or, the Universe, what

is it to me?

Emerson: Who is He that Shall Control Me?

-R. W. Emerson

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein

“If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful.”

-Rainier Marie Rilke

Adrienne Rich wrote, “I do know that art means nothing if it simply decorates the dinner table of the power which holds it hostage.”

“To achieve greatness, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time”
Leonard Bernstein