Part III

Almost always, the genius are really & deeply recognized as genius, that is to say for their essential contribution to the universal progress in their domain, some times after their death.

Part IV

Curiously, almost all the minorities in Occident can create a social or an antisocial organism to be recognized as minority.

Part V

A)

I'm not at all able to describe exhaustively the story of the Genius's concept.

During all the story of occidental though (i precise because i don't really know the others), looks like that this notion is before all irrational. & all that i've understand, after reading a lot of aesthetic theories, is the fact that this concept express before all a creativity's force, & not at all a psychologic quality. Nothing to see with haughtiness or self-esteem.

B)

The first great rational analysis of the Genius's concept has been done by the very great EMMANUEL KANT (18th century). After have spent a very big part of his life to try to understand the Art, & brought a lot to all the next generations of thinkers & artists with his analysis of aesthetic judgment, & with the great disntinction of the Beautiful (all the Joe's music, or a sunrise for example) & the Sublime (the Van Halen's live sonates, or the Niagara's falls for example), Kant has finished by understand that the process of artistic creativity is absolutely irreductible to the Reason. Important point : Kant is the philosopher of the Reason. The genius is become with his theory a metaphysic notion :

"The genius is the natural force which gives rules to the Art."

If you want to deepen, you can read Kant. That's the first great rational criterion in principle of this irrational notion. Of course, this criterion opens a lot of questions, problems, & minsunderstandings (of which the confusion of metaphysic point & psychologic point). The more beautiful example of all that is the Romanticism.

Part VI :

A)

The ultimate Kant's point is : the great Art is built by the genius, from masters to disciples. & the disciples surpass their masters, & become masters & ..... That's an idea very 18th. The Art is great or isn't. (An idea that i don't share. The Art can be "little"). The consequence is this one : there's the story of the genius, & the story of all the others. I personaly think that there's some very good intuitions in all that.

As i've said, the Kant's theory, as all great theory, opens a lot of difficulties. The genius point, ultimate point of his theory, is one of the begining's point of Romanticism : the subjectivity who expressed herself & the world starting from her own creative power. The Romantics are very great creators in general. Hoffman, Wagner, Goethe, Wilde, Hugo, Chopin, for example, are incredible. But the prob is that with the Romanticism, the genius has become a banal value. During all the 19th century, all the romantics have expressed that they were genius. Of course, in France, we have only one Hugo, only one Maupassant, & only one Baudelaire. Consequence of all that : during the 20th century, the genius is almost becomed a taboo.

B)

Bored by all these artists who were saying that they are genius, starting to surpass Schopenhauer & Kant, & wanting to break the irrationality of this notion, the philosopher Nietzche has done a very good analysis of the Genius's concept in "Human, to much human" (i'm not sure of the translation). The genius is in Art the expression of the strongest's law. The genius are those who have built incredible rules, & with who the others can't compete. That's an empiric analysis. As you should know, the end of Nietzsche isn't very rational.

C)

As you can see, this notion is always irrational & obscure. But during the 19th, an other philosopher, Soren Kierkeggard, true genius of philosophy & dialectic, has realized the big difference between him a lot of others thinkers : they were looking for, he was finding.

D)

Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkeggard are three of the greatest genius of the philosophy.

Part VII

delicat part....

Well, i personaly keep the three conceptions of Kant, Nietzsche & Kierkeggard as the great searching's horizon.

I believe that the Art is before all the struggle for expression & creativity to become a form of form, that is to say to give a form to reality.

My idea is that the genius is a very deep & obscure creative concentration of universality in the singularity.

My criterions are emotive:

1) Before all the creative inspiration & his total & irrational innovation's power. That's the absolute point, the absolute difference between the genius & all the other artists, as good as they are.

2) An emotional force which combines sensuality & imagination, & reason.

3) The deep organisation of this force with a singular balance of feeling & though.

4) So, the production of new forms & new technics.

Zen: Bro when y get on a roll! its so Fred,lol

Report Details Murder of 'Dimebag' Darrell

By Associated Press

Fri Oct 21, 7:30 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new police report details a chaotic scene at last December's Damageplan concert, with the tour manager getting wounded as he tried to prevent a gunman from climbing on stage _ he then was helped to the side where he watched former Pantera guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott get shot in the head three times.

At the heavy metal concert, 25-year-old Nathan Gale killed four people, including Abbott, before a Columbus policeman shot and killed Gale.

Nearly 300 witness interviews, released Thursday in a 627-page report, showed people were confused about the sequence of the shootings at the Alrosa Villa nightclub.

Witnesses said Gale sneaked into the concert before opening fire with his 9mm handgun.

Christopher Paluska, Damageplan's tour manager, said he was shot first _ though it was previously believed Abbott was the initial victim.

Paluska was one of three people shot who survived. Another, stage technician John Brooks, wrestled with Gale who pinned him as a hostage as police moved toward the stage.

Officer James Niggemeyer then killed Gale with one shotgun blast while he was holding Brooks hostage. Brooks told investigators although he didn't hear Niggemeyer fire at Gale, he felt Gale's grip weaken and hurried off the stage.

A grand jury cleared Niggemeyer, 31, of any wrongdoing in May. Gale still had 35 bullets left when killed, investigators said.

During the melee, Damageplan drummer Vincent Abbott hid behind amplifiers and lead singer Patrick Lachman jumped and screamed into the microphone for someone to call the police.

Gale's mother has said her son was obsessed with Pantera _ was nominated for Grammys for best metal performance in 1995 for "I'm Broken" and in 2001 for "Revolution Is My Name" _ and believed the band had stolen song lyrics from him.

He previously told both his mother and a former employer that he was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic before he was discharged from the Marines in October 2003, two years into a four-year stint. Military records do not mention mental illness as the reason for the discharge.

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**RIP Dime**

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