Regina Campbell
Bio
Independent writer/ essayist
Alias: Julia Caesar
Connecting history and philosophical ideas through the ages in the pursuit of our common Culture.
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Stories (12/0)
The Museum of Politics
Revolution is brought about by Force or Fraud, observed Aristotle--often flanked by both. History would agree with him, at least in terms of man-made revolutions. Since the rejection of Hegel's Idealism, Karl Marx's theory of historical materialism has in every generation summoned the condemnation of Capitalism and the division of leisure as a marker of inequality in the class struggle, but it is the Free Market economy alone that democratized leisure with the help of the 'invisible hand,' more likely, than the raised Fist.
By Regina Campbell8 months ago in History
The Far-Right
The birth of LEFT-WING and RIGHT-WING political monikers can be traced back to the French Revolution and the dividing of the National Constitutive Assembly in 1789. Those who supported the absolute veto power (Monarchy) sat in the RIGHT-WING and those who favored a limited veto power of King Louis XVI, in other words (Separation of Church and State), sat in the LEFT-WING. The LEFT and RIGHT diorama was a tableau of an acute time of conflict and since then our socio-political environments challenge this oversimplification. Our complex and pluralistic societies and our human nature deserve a reframe.
By Regina Campbell2 years ago in Humans
Sympathy for the Crown
Monarchy — For an American, the idea of anything but a Constitutional Republic is inconceivable. I can however, as a Catholic, understand hierarchy in the sense of Sacred Order and with that said, I see Peter Gordon’s 2016 netflix series ‘The Crown’ in a different light or perhaps the way he intended it. As with any good drama, both light and shadow must be cast on the existence of the characters and what can seem to be shallow mockery at times of Royal protocol and stoic englishness is balanced by a nostalgia and a respect for the dignity and consistency that the Sovereign has always represented.
By Regina Campbell2 years ago in Fiction
Sympathy for the Crown
Monarchy — For an American, the idea of anything but a Constitutional Republic is inconceivable. I can however, as a Catholic, understand hierarchy in the sense of Sacred Order and with that said, I see Peter Gordon’s 2016 netflix series ‘The Crown’ in a different light or perhaps the way he intended it. As with any good drama, both light and shadow must be cast on the existence of the characters and what can seem to be shallow mockery at times of Royal protocol and stoic Englishness is balanced by a nostalgia and a respect for the dignity and consistency that the Sovereign has always represented.
By Regina Campbell2 years ago in Fiction
Trudeau’s Black Swan:
If I had to make a wild guess, the Liberal Party of Canada under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau provoked the Trucker Convoy 2022 and created a honey pot on Parliament Hill. The bate would be fueled by frustration, anger and desperation by the many jobless, all symptoms of heavy handed Covid restrictions placed on Canadians already law abiding by brand. If operating ‘by the book‘ of the 4th Industrial Revolution (Trudeau, its poster boy) this would be an advantageous drill as blue-collar jobs will be the first to go when the digital economy launches that transformation of human kind’ and in ‘finer-print’ : changes its ’systems of governance’ to save us all with its WEF of fresh air. And according to the Crown Prince of Klaus Schwabers, those truckers with “unacceptable views” are polluting that avenue.
By Regina Campbell2 years ago in The Swamp
Monsters Я US: the Next Computer DeGeneration
ART IS “SEEING” Let’s look again: So what happened? “Pay attention!” our teachers and parents would say. It was well meaning and it was intented to instruct us in the virtue of attention, to prepare us to receive knowledge. We “pay” attention, meaning that it costs us something, it is worth our time and we invest in the act of being attentive because there are sacred developmental steps in learning. What we give our attention to shapes our sense of the world, perception and relations. What shapes the minds of our kids today? What images are coding their schema? How are today‘s computer animation and digital/media art trends a reflection of a botched universal education and a complete break from reality and culture?
By Regina Campbell3 years ago in Geeks
It Ain’t Over T’ill the Black Widow Sings—A Greek Tragedy in Italy with a Splash of Commedia d’ell arte. Top Story - December 2021.
A stylish production all dressed to kill in vintage Gucci hot iron lapels and tempers, complimentary power suits and pin stripped scars of love and jealousy—a world adorned with decadence, betrayal, passion and ambition tells its story of a famed famiglia whose roots run deep—Six feet deep in this Crime Saga about the Gucci‘s cursed legacy.
By Regina Campbell3 years ago in Families
The Eagle: American Vision in Flight and our Uncancellable History
"With this, Menelaus left them, looking round him as keenly as an eagle, whose sight they say is keener than any other bird—however high he may be in the heavens, not a hare that runs can escape him by crouching under a bush or thicket, for he will swoop down upon it and make an end of it”. Homer, The Iliad.
By Regina Campbell3 years ago in The Swamp
The Golden Section of Writing:
The Golden Section of Creativity How do we measure creativity, luck, inspiration? The Golden Section, that well established Golden Ratio of 1.618 symbolized by the Greek φ (Phi) named after Phidias (Φειδίας), considered the greatest sculptors of ancient Greece (Parthenon, Acropolis,Temple of Zeus) can be a useful tool for finding harmony and proportion, breaking from patterns, changing lanes, and exploring the unknown in order to grow in our professions. We know that numbers are not spirit, or living things but a way to convey meaning, place holders or conversion tools to measure and define what is unknown, mysterious, or what we call inspiration. Building on that logic we can apply the Golden Ratio to Creativity: could its source equally be found in between those irrational numbers somewhere between 0-1 or 1.618 and 1.618..9, those infinite numbers of expression? As writers how can we stretch the imagination in a way that (Adler/Wolff, 1960) described geometry “Nothing but the mind can draw a Euclidean circle”. That which is without definition is the destination.
By Regina Campbell3 years ago in Journal
For the Shear Love of it—Nature’s Lessons on Interior Peace
The seeds that I planted inside this February all died by May and this is why I love gardening— Human attempts to imitate nature often fall by the wayside as we are reminded of our small stature when it comes to the environment and our innate desire to cooperate within its natural laws. More than ever in a tech-driven hyper-digital world compounded by sociopolitical unrest, we need to enter into and create our Gardens of Eden of refreshment, peace and contemplation.
By Regina Campbell3 years ago in Earth