{"id":2746,"date":"2023-06-02T11:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/rene-magritte-on-the-antidote-to-the-banality-of-pessimism-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T15:25:24","slug":"rene-magritte-on-the-antidote-to-the-banality-of-pessimism-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/rene-magritte-on-the-antidote-to-the-banality-of-pessimism-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Magritte on the Antidote to the Banality of Pessimism \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Enchantment<\/a><\/p>\n

In a world pocked by cynicism and pummeled by devastating news, to find joy<\/a> for oneself and spark it in others, to find hope<\/a> for oneself and spark it in others, is nothing less than a countercultural act of courage and resistance. This is not a matter of denying reality \u2014 it is a matter of discovering a parallel reality where joy and hope are equally valid ways of being. To live there is to live enchanted with the underlying wonder of reality, beneath the frightful stories we tell ourselves and are told about it.<\/p>\n

Having lost his mother to suicide, having lived through two World Wars, the Belgian surrealist artist Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/strong> (November 21, 1898\u2013August 15, 1967) devoted his life and his art to creating such a parallel world of enchantment. <\/p>\n

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