Bohemian Rhapsody. We Will Rock You. Somebody To Love. All hit singles, and all the direct product of a band that was formed when an astrophysicist and a dentistry major found a new friend in an art college, who then went on to recruit a fourth member from the electronics school. Based on this alliance I propose the rift in society between Arts and STEM students was fabricated to keep us separated so as to dilute our true power – and fabricated by who, you may ask? The business major, the only member of society who reaps no reward from art and science and thus must weaken us so as to stay ahead. In this essay I will
Society constantly puts us in situations where it is in our interest to be mean. Our vanity would have us believe that we are naturally mean. But the truth is much worse: we become mean without knowing it, without even realizing it. It is difficult to be someone’s heir without unconsciously wishing for their death now and then. “In such situations, however sincere a love of virtue we bring to them, we weaken sooner or later without noticing it, and we become unjust and mean in fact, without having ceased to be good and just in soul.” It seems, however, that the beautiful soul is strangely destined to be thrown again and again into the most ambiguous situations, from which it extirpates itself only with great pain. We see the beautiful soul play on its own tenderness and timidity to extract from the worst situations those elements that allow it nevertheless to keep its virtue intact.
countervisuality 