Age of Muses | David Gosselin | Substack

Rhetoric, propaganda, and the “magical” qualities of language have been used as a means of controlling mass opinion for thousands of years. First codified by Aristotle in his Rhetoric, the art of using language as a means of persuasion and increasing suggestibility has been at…

Jun 16, 2022

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Originally published by UK Column The experience of great art is similar to the experience of a great scientific discovery. There is a common sentiment…

Jan 26

Our modern Western Narrative Matrix can in many ways be characterized as a series of “double binds.” These binds, dubbed “illusions of choice” by…

Jan 13

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Dec 20, 2022

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must…

Dec 3, 2022

In Friedrich Schiller’s poem “The Cranes of Ibykus,” when the poet Ibykus is murdered in a forest by a troop of thugs, he thinks himself alone. There…

Nov 22, 2022

Every healthy human child is naturally filled with wonder and awe. This wonder, associated with early childhood “enchantment,” is one filled with a…

Nov 6, 2022

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