by americancolossus | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Man, the Sculptor Man is the sculptor and the sculpted. Just as Prometheus fashions Man out of clay, like a sculptor would, and imbues him with technology, he propagates Man as the self-creating force of the universe. “I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own...
by americancolossus | Jul 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Pictures of our Promethean Future: The Dark Knight, Pt I Clamoring bells and soaring birds came to the city in the Midsummer Festival. Boulevards of trees and moss-grown walls funneled the great people to the harborside to watch the lighting of the Great Flame rising...
by americancolossus | May 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Bitcoin’s Promethean Renaissance The oldest tragedy. Man’s genius sacrificed on the pyre. His fire consumed. His vision squandered. His wealth betrayed and maligned. And the masses conspire unthinkingly, yielding the greatest of all technology to a capricious,...
by americancolossus | May 15, 2024 | Uncategorized
The Airships of Prometheus “I point to something new: certainly for a democratic type there exists the danger of the barbarian, but one has looked for it only in the depths. There exists also another type of barbarian, who comes from the heights: a species of...
by americancolossus | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
WOKE WOMEN AGAINST THE WEST In Prometheus Bound, Aeschylus writes of how when Prometheus was chained to the rocks of the Caucasus he comforted Io – a mortal woman turned into a heifer by Zeus, the tormentor of Prometheus. Io was an Argive princess. Zeus, the serial...
by americancolossus | Apr 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
Manifest destiny The spirit of the West is the spirit of Man The hour is striking so close above me, so clear and sharp, that all my senses ring with it. I feel it now: there is a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world. I know that nothing has ever been real...
