Skyler Saunders
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Reason First: The Case for Romanticism in the Cinema
Hollywood has figured out that there is an untapped audience yearning to see stories that reflect their lives up on the big screen. People flock to the movies to see the latest incarnation of super heroes or opioid addicts. But there is another set. This faction of the populace is tired of the putrid offerings that the mainstream studios produce every year. These people are earnest, smartworking, faith-filled Americans who just want to forego all of the blood and guts and gutter language and sexual situations. They seek out arts and entertainment that will bring them back to their roots or charge them to continue going down their faithful pathway. They seek to view wholesome, family-oriented entertainment. What is the response? Movies like Courageous (2011) God’s Not Dead (2014) I Can Only Imagine (2018) and God Bless the Broken Road (2018) are often low-budget ($2-$5 million) and take in considerable returns usually around $50 million- $80 million.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in Geeks
Reason First: How Romanticism Wins Against Every School of Art
The chasm remaining from the demise ten years ago of David Foster Wallace still stuns members of the literati. His words marked a shift in the tone, atmosphere, and tenor of the current state of the written word. A decade ago on this date, Wallace ended his own life by hanging. All of the idealism, thought, and childlike wonder got swallowed up by Death. But his legacy remains. Because of the fact that he left a tome of over one thousand words, Infinite Jest (1996), replete with footnotes and musings on the Postmodernist school all while writing in the school that he critiqued. One of the targets of Wallace’s pen was irony. Deep in the psyche of the current figures within the culture, the ironical is a key component of the modern author.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in Geeks
The Spirit of Radio: Ayn Rand, Troi Torain, September 11, 2001, and the Power of the Airwaves
In May of 2000, my sixth grade class received the chance to go to Ellis and Liberty Islands not far from New York City. While we didn’t enter into Manhattan to experience the skyscrapers, especially the World Trade Center, I yearned for the day where I would be able to visit the Twin Towers.…
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in The Swamp
Threnody for a Prodigious yet Troubled Hip Hop Artist
Not even a year after the death of Hip Hop artist Gustav Elijah Åhr, better known to the rap world as Lil’ Peep, rapper and producer Malcolm James “Mac Miller” McCormick has died of a drug overdose just like Åhr. What has to be remembered in cases like this is that if a person wants to get high, they’re going to get high. You can step in like a speed bump and try to slow them down, but if they’re willing to risk it, they’ll speed up and just hop over you.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in Psyche
Reason First: Why Brett Kavanaugh Ought to Sit Away from the US Supreme Court Bench
What ought to be done about Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh is that he should cease any attempts to be on the highest judiciary bench in the United States of America. Though he may hold exemplary positions on issues like the human environment, he lags with other major concerns like Roe v. Wade. While he has stated that he would follow the decision “fully and faithfully” if he is confirmed, he may overturn that decision.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in The Swamp
Reason First: Why Depravity Reigns on BET
It’s all well understood. The drugs and sex and rock and roll lifestyle is sexy and exciting, supposedly. Music supporters who have yearned to see that lifestyle on screens large and small want to view all of the ins and outs of their favorite musicians’ lives. Even when it comes with a cost, like a disease or ailment or death, audiences still seek out art and entertainment that exhibit these characteristics. With the knowledge that none of the indecency is conducive to living life, they continue to rush to theaters or couches or to devices to get a glimpse into the perversion.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in Geeks
Reason First: Worst Ways That Kaepernick Has Shamed America
Nike can do whatever it wants to do within the confines of the law. The multi-billion-dollar corporation has every right to choose what athletes represent its brand. It may be recovering from its #MeToo damage control and is trying to put all of that behind it. It is permitted to sell sneakers, apparel, and other products. It is even allowed to put the face of a loser on its thirtieth year celebration of its famous “Just Do It” campaign. Loser is the only way to describe NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick. Along with the evil message, “believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.” The image of Kaepernick is disgusting. Sacrifice is a vice, to begin with here. His disregard for law enforcement matched with his lack of respect for the American flag and what it represents are terrible reminders of just how undignified and ignominious this football player is.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in The Swamp
Reason First: Why Tech Execs Are the Neo-Heroes of the Digital Age
Bureaucrats and Big Tech executives live on the same moral spectrum. Most of them regard altruism as the ruling moral ideal. They’ll both be quick to say that their services are “bigger than themselves.” But the tech executives at least have the position of privatization over their products and services than any politicians could ever dream of in their sphere, with all of the ways that Facebook, Amazon, Alphabet, and Netflix have disrupted the system and challenged Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules and regulations. The technology is light years ahead of any political dictate that Capitol Hill or any other government body could issue.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in The Swamp
Pulling Rank: Best Examples of Selfishness in the Face of Precarious Situations Listed from Selfish Devotion to Self-Interested Care
When questioned about desperate situations like being stranded on a desert isle or sharing meager rations with your wife or husband aboard a rickety raft, Ayn Rand would classify such scenarios as “lifeboat” questions. These questions constitute statistically improbable situations. She would go onto explain that life is not lived on a remote location nor in a battered sea vessel. It is lived in the way of meeting with all kinds of people in every scale of ability and trading with them. The key to both of these extreme cases is the fact that morality would have to play the largest part. To perish while your spouse lived is not a sacrifice. To gobble up all of the rations is not a selfish act but a selfless one, if you value your wife or husband over the fact that he or she should live and not you, and that life wouldn’t be worth living without them.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in Humans
Pulling Rank: How Machine Gun Kelly’s Animus Against Eminem Exemplifies White Hatred Listed from a Verbal Assault to Possible Reconciliation
Epistemology is one of the two main prongs of Ayn Rand’s groundbreaking philosophy that consists of five branches where fresh thinking resonates the most. The other is with ethics. But it is reason that permits the individual to think about the idea of selfishness. The former comes before the other. It expands the thinking capacity of someone and never fails. The individuals may deviate from the rational faculty but reason still stands.
By Skyler Saunders8 years ago in Beat
