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I'm motivated by ideologies and idols that serve as role models to me, they keep me company even after death. My support comes from philosophy largely.
by rublev 10y ago
I'm motivated by ideologies and idols that serve as role models to me, they keep me company even after death. My support comes from philosophy largely.
- projektir 10y agoWhat ideology and idols are your role models right now?
- rublev 10y agoRachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Bach, Nikolai Lugansky, Sviatoslav Richter, Evgeny Kissin, Orson Welles, Ilya Repin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ennio Morricone, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Albert Camus, Kafka, and most of all Heinrich Neuhaus amongst many others. Those are my lifes main influences. Mainly music, some authors, couple of pianists, few painters. Glenn Gould especially. Check my previous comments for his mentions. I feel closer to them and their art (especially music) than any friends or family. I hope one day I'll break into that 'sphere' of people but it's going to take a couple of lonely decades and that's ok, and they've made me feel okay with it. I respect the amount of time that goes into works of divinity. With respect to philosophy, I mean in the loosest sense, peoples personal systems of thought, especially those of idols have helped me. PG's essays, Stoicism, and Eudaemonia come to mind.