Word: worldview
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Never would Fo subjugate his work, though, to the blunt expression of such a moral message—no one knows better than a jester that to preach is to lose one’s audience. His worldview is made clear, rather, by the aesthetic that permeates his work...
Human beings are driven by all sorts of passions and base instincts, and some of them lead one to put pen to paper. Perhaps in writing this very column I was seeking to curry favor with professors or marginalize threats to my worldview, moved by some denizen of the dark unconscious. And perhaps in reading this column in context with other sources one should keep these interests in mind...
...that Crosby would care. His worldview was famously imperturbable (say the word as Bing would, with the blowfish p's and b's). He?d most likely respond to the rare slur or setback with a blithe "Well, did you evah?" Crosby's last words, before the heart attack that killed him in 1977, at the conclusion of a foursome on a Madrid course, were "That was a great game of golf, fellas...
...That's the worldview of Kitano's crime films, where life is to die for and death is a punch line. Could any view be bleaker?or, in the hands of a master showman, more rudely entertaining? For TV's Beat Takeshi and the movies' Takeshi Kitano are halves of the same protean artist. One does anything for a laugh; the other dares the audience not to laugh at the spectacle of man annihilating himself and his species for the sake of a rusty old word like honor...
...species, because the concept of that history is not by any means shared. How can we have a vision of the future of humanity without a coherent, rational concept of its past? But the real danger in this half-commitment, this milking of science without purchase, is the strange worldview that it allows. Instead of an accurate concept of the human, we get away with a fuzzy, mushy, spiritual concept that attempts to transcend the material and fools us into believing in a fuzzy, mushy, warm blanket of a universe. As the myth of our centrality in the universe spills...