On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joanna Bujes wrote:
Lessing wrote a most wonderful treatise about this: Letters on the
Aesthetic Education of Man.
I think you actually mean Friedrich Schiller, no?
Michael
Yup, yup. You're right. God, my mind is goinggoing...
Thanks,
Joanna
Michael Pollak wrote:
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Joanna Bujes wrote:
Lessing wrote a most wonderful treatise about this: Letters on the
Aesthetic Education of Man.
I think you actually mean Friedrich Schiller, no?
Michael
One of the things I found interesting about this, is that Dr Frederickson
said that:
Positive emotions (...) broaden ways of thinking beyond our regular
baseline, and they accumulate.
Notice here the word accumulate, and where have we heard that before ?
J.
Very true. Which makes me wonder about the left propensity for gloom.
The only radicals that speak of hope these days are the Zapatistas.
Wonder why?
Joanna
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
Positive emotions don't necessarily narrow people toward a specific action,
like negative emotions do. Positive
Very true. Which makes me wonder about the left propensity for gloom.
The only radicals that speak of hope these days are the Zapatistas.
Wonder why?
Joanna
This is an interesting question. To an extent this is related to the
post-Marxist outlook of some of its leaders. If you forsake daunting
Hi Jo,
You make such interesting comments...
Very true. Which makes me wonder about the left propensity for gloom.
The only radicals that speak of hope these days are the Zapatistas.
Wonder why?
This is a very big topic. I think from personal experience it has to do
with, among other things,
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Positive emotions don't necessarily narrow people toward a specific action,
like negative emotions do. Positive emotions seem to broaden people's
repertoires
Maybe what the left needs is the sociological equivalent of Depakote, a mood-stabilizer, or Prozac...
I think it's called art :) Music, dance, theater. Lessing wrote a most
wonderful treatise about this: Letters on the Aesthetic Education of
Man. It's a bit thick with eighteenth century
doris lessing is always hot. . .
--- joanna bujes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe what the left needs is the sociological
equivalent of Depakote, a mood-stabilizer, or
Prozac...
I think it's called art :) Music, dance, theater.
Lessing wrote a most
wonderful treatise about this: Letters on the
Aesthetic
True, very true, but what is this in reply to?
Joanna
Brian McKenna wrote:
doris lessing is always hot. . .
Joanna,
you had mentioned the great writer's advice to leftists (and all sorts really). . .go to the arts for sustenance. . .music, dance, theater and so on. . .in my 40 plus years (25 as a marxist) I've turned to a tapestry of tonics to retain my mental health. . .but lately few seem to work
Thanks Brian. You're very kind to say so and I can't tell you how happy
it makes me that my writing has an effect on someone. I think of myself
as a sellout, since I abandoned academia and started to make my living
writing computer manuals. But, hey, I'm a single mom with two kids to
Brian McKenna:
you had mentioned the great writer's advice to leftists
(and all sorts really). . .go to the arts for sustenance...
music, dance, theater and so on. . .in my 40 plus years
(25 as a marxist) I've turned to a tapestry of tonics to
retain my mental health. . .but lately few
Positive emotions don't necessarily narrow people toward a specific action,
like negative emotions do. Positive emotions seem to broaden people's
repertoires of things they like to pursue. They broaden ways of thinking
beyond our regular baseline, and they accumulate. And that broadening allows
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