Tag: hedonistic calculus
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What drives mankind to pursue auto-iconography, sometimes to absurd lengths, such as the departed Michael Jackson who developed a plastic caricature of himself, a perfect and yet strangely alien face, framed by a few wispy, well-oiled curls? Is it the pursuit of eternality in the eyes of the beholders that so motivates the auto-iconographer? This…
Mattie Quesenberry Smith, Ph.D.
Poet Laureate of Virginia 