March 31, 2025: Extra Artists on Evil: An Opera on the Anti-Christ Enjoying in Berlin
Matthew tells us that artwork helps us discover a language for what’s going on on the planet at present. After which, a buddy despatched Matthew an e mail about an opera being carried out in Berlin proper now referred to as “Anti-Krist,” or Anti-Christ. Within the opera, Lucifer sends the Antichrist right into a godless world. Humankind is examined and tempted by pleasure, lust, lies, despondency and hatred. Primarily based on the E book of the Apocalypse, the opera warns of disaster and denounces the vices of the fashionable age. Blessedly, the opera’s finale options the world freed from evil and sorrow. In fact, apocalypse additionally means revelation. The top of time incorporates the seeds of a rebirth.
April 1, 2025: Michael Moore Invitations You to a Contest: Portray The Donald
Michael Moore wrote an article not too long ago titled: “Donald Trump Needs a New Portrait of Himself: A Name to Artists and Non-Artists In every single place!” There’s a portrait of trump hanging within the Colorado State Capitol. Different presidents have portraits there as effectively. Trump doesn’t like his, regardless that the Republican Celebration commissioned it and paid for it. Michael Moore suggests a contest. He is aware of we’ll give you some doozies. Says Moore: “In instances like these, Artwork is usually a nice healer.” He invitations us to ship images of our drawings and work to him and he’ll ahead them to trump and the Colorado capital.
April 2, 2025: The Energy of Artwork to Soften Hearts, Minds, & Icy Politics
Matthew shares an enchanting story in regards to the energy of artwork to interrupt via difficult conditions. In 1969, Matthew was invited, together with a girl, to chaperone 70 American school college students as they traveled to Russia. In the future the scholars had been to fulfill with Russian school college students. It didn’t go effectively. Every particular person, indoctrinated with the propaganda of their respective governments, had been nervous. American college students congregated at one finish of the good room; the Russian college students on the different finish. It was extraordinarily awkward. Lastly, one American pupil broke the ice by beginning to sing “Leaving on a Jet Airplane.” The People all joined in. The Russians responded with a music of their very own. This went forwards and backwards till some Russian college students started dancing a Cossack dance. Ultimately everybody was dancing and the gathering was not segregated and uncomfortable. The Energy of Artwork.
April 3, 2025: A Good Day For Democracy, Dangerous for Mad Hatter & His Boss
Yesterday introduced welcome information within the battle for our democracy. Senator Cory Booker spoke on the Senate flooring in opposition to the horrors of this administration for an astounding 25 hours and 4 minutes. He mentioned, “This isn’t proper or left, it’s proper or mistaken. This isn’t a partisan second. It’s a ethical second.” Fasting and dehydrating himself so as to accomplish the feat with out lavatory breaks, Booker is the very definition of a religious warrior. In additional excellent news, Musk received a wake-up name because the tens of millions he poured into the Wisconsin supreme courtroom election didn’t have his meant impact. Voters as an alternative selected Progressive candidate Susan Crawford.
April 4, 2025: Difficult Unhealthy Masculinity & a Cult of Toughness
Some of the vital problems with our day is the funk that many younger males discover themselves in. Research present that it was the shift towards Trump amongst younger males that received him elected this previous November. Journalist Harold Meyerson believes that the MAGA motion is “reliant on the cult of toughness and hypermasculinity.” We want as an alternative to listen to messages like these of former Navy Seal Admiral William McRaven, who mentioned, “You could have compassion. You could ache for the poor and disenfranchised. You could really feel for the susceptible.”* And messages like these from the children of Colby Faculty who’ve began a TikTok web page devoted to constructive masculinity referred to as SexEdForGuys.**
April 5, 2025: Optimistic Masculinity for Younger Males on TikTok
Matthew applauds the efforts of younger individuals from Colby Faculty who’re working to vary the narrative about masculinity in our tradition. Matthew has discovered that educating in regards to the archetypes of wholesome masculinity will be very useful. They embrace: Father Sky—a celebration of the Cosmos and our half within the Universe. Inexperienced Man celebrates and protects Nature and the Earth. The Blue Man celebrates mankind’s Creativity. The Religious Warrior is dedicated to Justice and the Frequent Good. The Hunter-Gatherer is that historical a part of our DNA that hunts and gathers to feed household and group. Fatherhood is in regards to the love and protecting instincts that may come up when one brings youngsters into the world. Grandfatherhood—a celebration of the knowledge of Elderhood.
* David French, “Hulk Hogan Is Not the Solely Solution to Be a Man,” New York Occasions, July 28, 2024.
** Fortesa Latifi, “Meet the Faculty Youngsters Making ‘Optimistic Masculinity’ TikToks to Counter the Manosphere,” Rolling Stone, March 25, 2025.
Banner picture: Proper vs. mistaken. Signal carried by a girl at a Arms Off! protest in a small city in Pennsylvania. Picture by DM workforce member, Cynthia Greb.
