Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Windows of My Mind

Daedalus used his ingenuity to construct a labyrinth for King Minos of Crete, from which, no hapless mortal might escape the complex building's "...confusing series of passages." Oftentimes, stressful situations render linear decision-making feckless in the extreme; yet, persistent scatter shot mobility tends to reveal avenues of emergent visionary hope and promissory unbridled freedom.

Friday, July 5, 2013

Man in the Mirror

In trying to deconstruct the penalties and condemnations, in ancient Greece, meted out to those mortals guilty of hubris, one has to first instinctively reflect on their own construction - as to, whether or not, overconfidence, arrogance, pride and mendacity leave them bereft of unobtrusive human sympathy. Such "intentionally dishonoring behavior" brought the person exhibiting it powerful moral condemnation and was treated as a serious crime; yet, the most compelling damnation suffered came from within their own wellspring of  insolent dishonor.