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Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty43
Bradley McDevitt

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

"Art is not a product but a ritual of the psyche, weaving meaning from the human experience AI cannot touch." -Bradley McDevitt

Cultural Observations39
Bradley McDevitt

Standing in front of all my stuff, it hit me that all of it used to be money, and all of that used to be time. I was standing in front of the metaboli

The average person now spends seven hours a day staring at a screen. For Gen Z the figure is nine hours. A recent article in The Times found that on a

Each generation has different things that force the generation to grow up. Maybe for our grandparents it was World War II. You know? For us…[we] have

design designs1
Bradley McDevitt

An architecture is a hierarchical system of parts that come together to solve timeless design problems.

Political Backwash13
Bradley McDevitt

In infants, the chief causes of outrageous behavior — impulsivity, grandiosity, attention-seeking, and a sense of entitlement — are considered normal,

Hannah Arendt powerfully explained “the constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie but at ensuring that no one believes anything a

Those of us who advocate for peace are not blind to the atrocities Hamas committed on October 7. But without the ideological filter that holds them as

Theater & Other Productive Rituals6
Bradley McDevitt

Walking lets you read the world — and much like the slow, contemplative mental processes involved in reading a book, the pace with which one moves thr

The function of the storyteller is thus crucial not only for the preservation of the doings and sayings of actors, but also for the full disclosure of

behind the actor stands the storyteller, but behind the storyteller stands a community of memory.

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

Leadership Development5
Bradley McDevitt

Communication creates community. The way we communicate forms the types of communities we form: communities where the highest good sought is great ent

”People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.” — Bertrand Russell

“Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.”— Vik

Corruptio optimi pessima—the corruption of the best is the worst.

Startup Upstarts7
Bradley McDevitt

In an ideal world, one’s own personal intuition or radar is the same thing as the force that motivates them.

the finance bro is now in his metamorphosis, offering a few things to the American dating public that they forgot they needed: stability. Predictabili

The education of the future is going to be an education in sensory perception, and therefore an education in the humanities—especially in the arts—bec

Communication creates community. The way we communicate forms the types of communities we form: communities where the highest good sought is great ent

Scholarship - Archetypal Psychology3
Bradley McDevitt

We start in the depths of time and soul, in the collective archetypal lands of equally bright light and darkness, the depository of humanity’s psychic

"Attention changes what kind of a thing comes into being for us: in that way, it changes the world." – Dr. Iain McGilchrist

TrXtR Fodder3
Bradley McDevitt

Trickster is the mythic embodiment of ambiguity and ambivalence, doubleness and duplicity, contradiction and paradox.

Archetypes are universal principles, deep knowing, and core ideas that permeate the human experience. Archetypes are also eternal and beyond time and