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Envy’s Descent into Spiritual Poverty This demonstration of Resurrexit Spiritus and Structural Virtues Theory (RS & SVT) comes with a disclaimer: Amadeus (1984) contains nudity and crass humour, though more than this it is not historically accurate. I am not writing to critique the accuracy, though. Suffice to say, Mozart was never such a scoundrel…
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The work here at 24K and virtues.blog is in ontology mostly, but also epistemology: https://24k.cc/issue/202400-s2i0/
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Excellence, the Price for a Taste of Freedom in Patience In the third domain of Resurrexit Spiritus (RS), Eros, where relationships are forged through mutual trust or exploited in trade for illusions of power; the error of Dependence is a corrosive force on both sides. To be clear, this has nothing to do with childhood,…
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Greed, Dependence, and the Quest for Meaning in a World of Illusions In the first domain of Resurrexit Spiritus (RS), Kratos, societies and individuals define themselves through the acceptance or rejection of rules. In Rain Man (1988), this is figured in Charlie Babbitt and his practice of manipulating systems, a system of rules exploiting rules…
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Greed, Dependence, and Envy Aborting Rather Than Prudence and Ethics Birthing Truth In the first domain of RS, Kratos, societies define themselves through the acceptance or rejection of rules, and the powers these rules have, especially when it comes to balance in the other proceeding domains. In There Will Be Blood (2007), this is embodied…
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Silent Machinery of Control Through Sin: A Structural Virtues Theory Exploration of Spotlight (2015)
How Corruption Binds Us Who can see through the veil of power maintenance, and its delayed Justice? Spotlight, the 2015 film portraying the heart-wrenching true story of institutionalised child abuse, is a chronicle of just such heroics; it is a mirror held up to the rotting corpse of these institutions that abuse the name of…
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Illusion of Victory History is a battlefield itself where the victors trip each other up in the record in order to reshape the entire terrain. The winners write their victory, crafting a story that obscures the chaos of the struggles, minimises the losses, and magnifies their own roles variously as saviours or agents of fate.…
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An Exploration of Control Through Narrative, Complacency, and the Erosion of Meaning (If you like this article, please consider reading a more complete investigation of the war against nations through culture and degeneration in The Filth Column.) Throughout history, empires have sought to redefine how we thought about the world, most especially through religion and…
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Procrastination as Thief of Justice: A Structural Virtues Theory Review I would like to preface this review by saying I thought the filmmakers could have done parts of this film differently and much classier. Due to its crudeness, I cannot recommend watching this movie with anyone, especially someone sensitive, impressionable, or young. In the shadow…
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The Tyranny of Certainty: How Absolutism Distorts the Soul’s Path to Justice The 1950 film Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa, is a masterful exploration of the human soul’s deepest contradictions. I’ve been a big fan of Kurosawa since discovering his work as a teenager, however this is one which took time and experience to fully…