Author: C2O Editor
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Artistic Integrity Is Expensive
If you have never been called a “sell-out” then a couple things may have happened 1. people aren’t really being honest to your face or, 2. you aren’t making that much money. There is a rare faction of creatives that manage to drive head first into the world of profitability without having to confirm to…
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How Not Talking About Money Is Keeping Us All Broke
Do you know how much money your friends make as a salary? I don’t mean acquaintances, but close friends that you talk to about everything. I am talking about the people you would call if your mother got sick or if you need some emotional or personal advice. Would you ask them for advice if you…
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Human Compromise: A Society Of Anarchy
The passionate anarchist who screams “Down with the system.” while throwing a molotov cocktail at a riot control officer believes that he is calling for anarchy when he as well as the officer in front of him may ALREADY be living in anarchy. Is it possible that what we think of as social order is…
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Equal Access To Creativity?
Do you remember MacGyver? It was a TV show in the late 80’s with a secret agent who basically could build just about anything with duct tape, a swiss army knife and a few random objects that might be lying around. Watching an old re-run of this show will easily get you thinking about how…
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Mind Blown: Grieving Knowledge
If the beliefs we have about ourselves make up our identity are not connected to truth. It means that we could be 1. incorrect about our identity but also that, 2. our identities (self-perception) can shift with knowledge alone.This shift in identity from wise to ignorant can be significant enough to require reconciliation. It’s worth…
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Are You Reading Too Much Into Things?
Do you remember your high school literature class? The teacher told you to read a poem by Shakespeare or Langston Hughes and made you pick apart every word in every line to try and dissect the author’s intent. The key to this exercise is that by looking at the authors choice of words, their characteristics,…
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Chivalry: By Product Of Misogyny Or Window To Social Justice?
To truly face facts as a society would be to recognize that every facet of our social order is in flux. Not just our economy and environment, but the very fabric of how we express love and build intimate relationships. This stems from fundamental changes in each of our personal identities respectively. To be an…
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Self-Restraint: Inhibition, Repression, & Maturity
When I visualize the idea of self-restraint, it is not a dramatic surrealist painting of a man on never ending stairs, nor is it a depiction of someone locking themselves in a cell and swallowing the key, I see a simple picture of a person with their hands folded. Sometimes we simply curb our will…
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Outsourced Thinking & Authority
Ask yourself what you know, then ask yourself how you know it. When you look up above your while standing outdoors, how do you know that to be the sky? You know that you are looking above your head because of the position of your own neck, but the fact that what you are staring…
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Broken Trust = Broken Faith
There is a lot of stigma surrounding religion in some circles. It is some times described as oppressive and homogenizing. Criticisms about traditions of various religions come in to question for moral reasons. At the same time we find ourselves more and more secluded and disconnected from each other in a data driven world. We seek…