MonroeDoctrine wrote:
[/b]Compassion Towards Man
The best way to counter the insanity is to get people to participate in awesome classical culture. John Keats, Shelly, Moses Mendelssohn, and Friedrich Schiller. What better way to get people to be compassionate towards their fellow man than inspiring people to do so with art?
How is that to be done?
Kids are taught great art and literature and history and all those things at school, but they naturally rebel against it.
I know I had no interest in the things I was supposed to be learning when I was at school.
Education really is wasted on the young.
And to be honest great Classical literature is full of all sorts of horrors. The first major piece of Western literature, The Iliad is an epic about a brutal war filled with death and destruction every bit as appalling and graphic as anything in the latest news reports from Iraq.
Greek tragedies? These are filed with nothing but murder and rape.
All subsequent western literature is filled with themes of horror and violence.
You cannot, and should not sanitize art, for it reflects life, and life can be brutal and violent sometimes.