
Fred Scharmen
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Brick Hill
Joined June 2007
A weird day to be writing about political tectonics and outer space.
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Oh totally I was just talking the other day about how much the modernists hated science, industrialism, humanitarianism, and the notion of progress.
"modernism is better seen as the next stage of romanticism. The key qualities they had in common were:.* a disdain for all art that had come before.* fetishizing "originality" and constant change.* calling ugly, discordant, or senseless things "art" as long as they were new.*.
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RT @sevensixfive: Society if society had been modeled after the paintings of artist Robert McCall.
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RT @sevensixfive: If the Crystal Palace didn’t exist, cultural historians would have been forced to invent it.
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RT @ken_wheeler: it’s just busy porn. they want to appear busy because it signals importance. but they’re transparently unimportant childre….
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RT @Cmdr_Hadfield: Ethereal crescent Moon over Maspalomas tracking station, Canary Islands. (beautiful image by Marina Prol @marprol) http….
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RT @orphcorp: ever since I was a kid I knew I wanted to help humanity remember and unlock the power each individual holds within themself b….
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