tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post7398267515900749245..comments2023-12-19T15:10:02.866-08:00Comments on ex cathedra: Obama's children at playUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post-44605517164371474912012-05-02T00:44:57.394-07:002012-05-02T00:44:57.394-07:00Martin Luther: »All creatures are God's masks ...Martin Luther: »All creatures are God's masks and mummeries.«<br />(quoted by J. Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play[also dramatic?] Element in Culture, p. 212 n.2. cf also Plato, Laws 685, 803-4)<br /><br />Luther didn't say that we ought not to improve the drama. In fact, I suppose he saw that we could allow the drama to grow worse and worse, but urged that we improve the drama according to the score laid out in the BIble. ...<br /><br />Marcuse demanded that the drama grow worse and worse. Improvement (Homer, Bible, Aristophanes, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Spinoza, Shakespeare, Mozart etc) is only a tool of unfair capitalist oppression.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com