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This is one of Plato’s most known dialogues, dating back to around 380/385 BC. The text is concerned with the nature of love, as many intellectuals and artists in Athens debate the issue and present different ideas.

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George Carlin is known for disliking the fact that religion is displayed everywhere, always. He hates how you need to swear on the bible in court, hates how religious people put boundaries on what other people can do because of their religion, and how religion markets itself.

How is it an atheist cannot express his objection to religion but religious people can express their objection to atheism?

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In today’s culture we are obsessed with lists. In most magazines nowadays you will always see lists about the best sportsman, income earners and appearances.

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Before Socrates was executed by drinking Hemlock/Poison he said to Crito;

“We owe a rooster to Asclepius. Please, don’t forget to pay the debt.”

Asclepius was the Greek God of medicine & healing, and when you were cured of an illness/disease you would sacrifice a rooster to pay your debt.

Socrates creates an oxymoron here, as he is saying that death is the only true cure of life, which he saw as ultimately a horrible, cruel thing.

Mac uses this idea and runs with it. He has infected everyone with a deadly disease so that we can get away from the suffering that is life. He is calling what many would consider villainous, heroic.

You’re mistaken the world is cold and it’s lonely ain’t it”.

Guess he is a philosopher.

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Here Mac creates an abstract idea about dreaming, as he is saying that somehow he is experience this sensation, yet isn’t envisioning anything. This may be a sign of depression, and so he finds comfort through sex. Waking up and having sex is getting to be a bit of a cycle.

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What is being said here is that it is human nature to escape harsh realities and traumas of life, rather than face them – much like per se the Ancient Greeks did. For Mac, he found drugs, however It could be any type of infatuation of addiction: love, money, sports, anything that personally takes one’s pain away.

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He thinks himself as insane. He’s not actually mysogynistic, but is confused and caught in a web with emotions regarding females.

Miller is adorning to the music critics who claim he – along with many other rappers – are homophobic and misogynistic. A recent review from The Guardian demonstrates this point;

Mac Miller offers an invitation during the call-and-response chorus of Gees, one that invites the listener to both receive a male appendage in their mouth, and have it slapped across their cheeks. That he’s actually concerned with it being a tongue that goes into cheek is revealed in his third pass through the chrorus, when he adds: “Now just the parents!” And so continues modern rap’s tiresome plot to make sexual violence sound like a slightly naughty lark. …but Miller clearly has no similar intentions to upturn rap’s homophobic and misogynistic boat.

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Nearly six years after Queens of the Stone Age’s last studio album Era Vulgaris (2007) the California desert rock group were back with what many are considering their best album yet.

Drearier than ever, lead guitarist and vocalist Josh Homme described where he was at in life and how everything could be a lot different after a freak accident that left him bedridden for months.

During the recording of …Like Clockwork, drummer Joey Castillo left the band resulting in Dave Grohl picking up the sticks for the remaining songs and then Jon Theodore taking up the kit.

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Founded back in 1996 after the separation of Kyuss, Josh Homme embarked upon a mission to bring Desert Rock to the frontier of music.

Since their creation, they have gone through various line-ups and more musical styles and moods, ranging from electronic robot rock (Era Vulgaris), dark and sexy (Lullabies to Paralyze), cathartic, (…Like Clockwork) and robotic dance rock with their 2017 release (Villains).

Throughout the years, their lineup has included many notable musicians, including Mark Lanegan and Dave Grohl.

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