QUINTESSENTIAL ARTS – KNOWLEDGE OF SELF Lyrics
Artist: QUINTESSENTIAL ARTS
Song: KNOWLEDGE OF SELF
Before the small village of Rome became “Rome” with a capital R, a brilliant civilization once controlled almost the entire peninsula we now call Italy
This was the Etruscan civilization, a vanished culture whose achievements set the stage not only for the development of ancient Roman art and culture but for the Italian Renaissance as well
Optimism is discredited, not so much and certainly not only because its tenets are shown to be implausible in the light of the evidence, but essentially because it is a system
As such it is as inhuman and as dangerous as all the other systems which are ruthlessly satirized in history: the military system, the Church system, the educational system, the colonial system, the economic models, political establishments and indeed the system of logic itself
Mr. Parker
Say it again? Mr. Parker
The man sitting over there is compiling many accusations
You look me in the eye and on your life, you answer me truthfully? Have you any other name than Brad?
Solomon Northup is my name
Sheriff, what’s all this?
Its official business
The picture is not unrelievedly bleak, there may be some grounds for optimism
First, human beings may be admirable for their will to survive and their refusal to commit philosophical suicide
Etruscan influence on ancient Roman culture was profound and it was from the Etruscans that the Romans inherited many of their own cultural and artistic traditions, from the spectacle of gladiatorial combat to hydraulic engineering, temple design, and religious ritual, among many other things
My n#gg# my business
Your business waits
Tell me of your family
I have a wife two children
What the hell?
What are your children’s names?
Margaret and Alonzo
What’s your wife’s name before her marriage?
Anne Hampton I am who I say
Where you going
Didn’t authorize you to invade my property
You come back here
You come back here boy
Mundanes no longer listen to fairytales
The cause is still the same: an interfering church that thinks it has a monopoly on virtue and truth – a breach in superterrestrial law
People heard these marvelous tales, they believed, thrived and built dynasties on them
You will unhand him
That is my n#gg#
He is Mr. Solomon Northup
You come here in front of me with claims
Got no doubts the man is Solomon Northup
The hell he is he is my n#gg# and I’ll fight you for him
As is your right as it will be my pleasure to bankrupt you in the courts your decision?
Unhand him
I’m gonna get to the bottom of this
I paid good money for this n#gg# courthouse got papers to prove it
And we got papers to prove that he’s real
I own you; you belong to me do you hear me?
Unhand him
Get you back by sundown
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Release Year: 2022