If the Church mandates morality, and if the state fixes our appropriate behavior with laws, ethics, rules and values, what then, is the role of The Arts in the lives of the everyday citizen and must we require the state and the Church to not only support The Arts but to practice them as well?
After 15 years and 122 Emmy nominations — ER, the Michael Crichton-inspired television series — is over.
In my professional work as a script doctor at ScriptProfessor.com, I am always struck numb by those that believe anyone can write and that everyone can fix a dramatic work. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Understanding how to make a script work is a tough task that few people in the world really understand and even fewer are able to perform at any price.
As a teenager, I loved watching the television show Doogie Howser, M.D. One of the best parts of the show was at the very end when he would type out thoughts that he had on his computer on an electronic journal titled “The Personal Journal of Doogie Howser, M.D.” – I just discovered that the journals have been meticulously recreated online. There are so many profound lessons and simple lessons that can be learned from a television show about a teenage genius that became a doctor.
As medicine and science converge to reveal the artistic, human, need to argue faith over facts, a tussle has broken out between the faithful and the scientific and medical communities. It seems, the argument goes, that nanotechnology — because it is so tiny and creative — is Godless, and that is unacceptable to those that believe in a Creator.
Last week, we announced three new additions to the Boles Blogs Network — Panopticonic, Carceral Nation and Memeingful — and today we are delighted to announce two more sites we have added to the network!
The first is ScientificAesthetic.com — that site used to be a website, but we’ve now made it more interactive in our ongoing effort to help bring The Arts to Science. We’ll be writing and wondering about the ways our innate aesthetic informs how to we relate to, and think about, science. Scientific Aesthetic has two logos you’ll be seeing along the Network. The first is the name and the second is the semiotic idea of name:
Continue reading → Scientific Aesthetic and Dramatic Medicine
The Greeks had a way of constructing the character of a person on stage in a dramatic presentation: Ethical Habit of Action. You learn to understand a person based not on what they say, but rather on how they behave. Don’t believe what you’re told. Believe only what you see. It is the bundled experience of the form — the habit of action — that defines us… and not the brittle persona many believe is the true and ethical morality of the person.
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