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| 2025-08-03 09:00:42 UTC
Slavery & Culture: Two Sides of a Coin
Guillermo Pablos Murphy
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As far as I can tell, there’s an incredibly broad inclination in human beings to enslave each other. From the great scale into the small scale, with debt, usury, law... The other side of the coin is what we'd call culture, which is actually the proper use of coin within society: spending it on beautiful objects.
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Paraphrased from James Gillick, "The Grand Gesture: Reviving Sacred Art, Craft, and Culture" (~00:23:10), The New Humanum.
James Gillick is an English figurative artist.
Link to the full film on YouTube: https://youtu.be/96J2RIQLvC4?