>>26878496The artificial and incompatible (at least regarding to an overarching practice, for it is possible, like I have said earlier, to have different mindsets regarding the situation at hand, but this is a matter of internal outlook and action, not a caprice of behavior akin to hiding your disdain for your friend’s spaghetti) combination of Stoicism towards internal troubles and strife, and materialistic and hedonism-distorted form of Epicureanism, the principal strings to its ideological and bow, were very much in the air and had hundreds of thousands of across the world; and it rose to popularity chiefly because it swam backstroke in champion style with those webbed feet and toes in these two powerful currents in a manner less like a frog than perhaps a thoughtless jellyfish.
His struggle was, therefore, not so much that of a prophet with a new message, but of a Pokémon who, being able to only create two forms of drama and picture without any facets or nuances between them — that of the duel, and that of the child’s playground — was concerned to get a public, conditioned by Serebii, Maryland, Verlisify, and others, to accept this one form as passionate entertainment.
Just as Bernard Shaw, stronger in dialectics than psychology, and Socrates, stronger in upsetting and indignifying than deep and observant thought and foresight, were faced with the personal problem of making their instinctual and aptitude-driven weaknesses the rules and criterion by which their respective artistry should be judged.