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- How a private-sector CEO thinks.
- LGBT asylum seekers, quotas and open immigration.
- Death and the Captain
- A brief letter on a facial beauty.
- An Open Letter to a Teacher: Listening can go both ways
- Life is Beautiful: A Letter to a Drunk Mind
- Democratic government and its approach to individual rights
- Public services: how should we pay for them?
- A letter on Haaretz, and the perspective we must take on Israel.
- Neoliberalism: The Misunderstood Ideology (assuming it exists).
- The problems of immortality and the value of death.
- Liberalism and Primitivism: Choice, or the natural and primitive life?
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- Drugs: paternalistic government or absolute self-ownership?
- An Analysis of William Wordsworth’s “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections Of Early Childhood”
‘A string of thought’
A string of thought lead me to wonder how your film was doing. If I recall, when we first met about two years ago you were looking for funding. I read the voir.ca articles and ended up reading a letter of yours, found here, dealing with the infamous “coupures du gouvernment Harper”.
It is incredibly well-written. You present to us a defense of art, detailing its beauty, its value, its importance. Not only do you present art as something that is essential for us as humans – to escape the realities of a mundane life; to touch these emotions which can only last in an imagined, fabricated world; to test the psychology of the self, this human creature –, but as something that is essential for us as a people : the love of art is embedded in our culture, it is what allows us to distinguish ourselves from others, to carve our own identity as the Quebecois. Who would we be, what would we be were it not for this creative impulse and how we feel the need to share its products?
This appears to best sum up your letter and this is precisely the attitude that you, as an artist, must adopt. Is it, however, the attitude that you must adopt to see the world through as clear a lens as possible? Is it the attitude that you must adopt when speaking of politics? I do not think so. The arguments are passionate, but they are not reasonable.