A recent post on Marcus Aurelius and change found another emperor / ruler talking about change – … mostly the same sentiment. Wikipedia has this to say about the book. “In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen…
In a recently published academic paper that I cannot now find nor fully remember, the author focused on the metaphor change from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change”. They asserted that that simple metaphor change was introduced initially as a compromise to “deniers”; that metaphor change, either intentionally or not, reduced angst, urgency and sadly, human…
A recent post from a very unlikely source – ArtNet – cracked me up. The subject, the slaying of a 7-headed snake-like figure, is critically important for us mythology followers in the west – especially those who see truth in the Bible that has nothing to do w/ Christianity. This was a great example of…
Heroes are double-edged swords. There is something in our cultural (biological?) makeup that pushes us to identify with heroes – especially in western cultures. The word “hero” has an interesting etymology: The word hero comes from the Greek ἥρως (hērōs), “hero” (literally “protector” or “defender”), particularly one such as Heracles with divine ancestry or later given divine honors. Before the decipherment of Linear B the original…
