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Nick Kotar - Art and a Unifying Vision

Heavy Things Lightly

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Tolkien, the Peter Jackson Tolkenstein Trope

The Peter Jackson Tolkien trope is like sweeping visuals, operatic music, slow motion and extreme close up on faces. It's supposed to evoke emotional resonance but it doesn't work in this case. The beautiful shatters your conceptions about what’s true, because beauty is not rationality. If you regularly cultivate that quality of seeing the deeper reality of things, instead of just scheming on the surface of things,. You'll be better off.

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