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Five Facets of a Myth
All this hardly suggests the sort of material comfort progress is assumed to have provided. Certainly many in the U.S. and throughout the industrial world live at levels of wealth undreamed of in ages past, able to call forth hundreds of servant-equivalents at the flip of a switch or turn of a key, and probably a third of this "first world" population could be said to have lives of a certain amount of ease and convenience. Yet it is a statistical fact that it is just this segment that most acutely suffers from the true "comfortable disease," what I would call affluenza: heart disease, stress, overwork, family dysfunction, alcoholism, insecurity, anomie, psychosis, loneliness, impotence, alienation, consumerism, and coldness of heart.
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| Aestheticism
Aestheticism (Idea in ethics) — Aestheticism is the idea that the highest values (even the highest ethical values) are in the end aesthetic values. The idea is often associated with nineteenth-century romanticism and personally with Friedrich Schiller (author of The Aesthetic Education of Man) and with Friedrich Nietzsche, both of whom sometimes exhorted their readers to "make your life a work of art".
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Police Baffled as Killer Strikes Again
Cooke knocked her unconscious and then strangled her to death with a light cord before he removed her nightie and had sex with her still warm corpse.
Eric Cooke then dragged the dead woman’s naked body out of the back door of the ground floor apartment, across a bitumen rear lane and into the backyard of a house owned by the parents of Perth television personality Caroline Noble. Then Cooke cradled in the dead woman’s arms an empty whisky bottle that he had found in the yard - and that is how the shocked members of the Noble family found Lucy Madrill the following morning.
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Coprophagia
Coprophagia, or eating one's own feces, has been reported in many animals, where it can be either a normal or pathological behavior. Coprophagia in humans is uncommon, and more likely to occur in patients with old age dementia, depression, hypothyroidism, learning disability, and severe psychosis such as associated with schizophrenia in young adults. Coprophagia has been described in many animals including lemur, marmoset, horse, guinea-pig, chinchilla, beaver and shrew. The growth of rats is stunted by 20% when coprophagia is prevented. Coprophagia, a normal behavior in rabbits and rodents, appears to aid bacterial synthesis of nutrients, particularly B group vitamins and vitamin K in the colon.
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Plot Summary for
Punisher, The (2004)
Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he's a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong.
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ART |
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On Pop Culture And The Art Of
Pop culture is not
necessarily interesting
in itself: it's merely
an index of the
state of the broader
social culture, or a
way to sell newspapers
or CD's or commercials.
The trouble with that
mercantile mindset
is that the popular
arena is indeed the
source of some
of the best art out
there, and artistic
excellence calls forth
smart criticism.
Even elitist criticism
— the kind produced
by critics who
love popular art
but scorn the populace
as a bunch of
Menckenesque rubes
easily manipulated
by commercial interests.
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