Eerily, his single panoptic-style eye, peering out from beneath the police helmet, is reminiscent of the all-seeing eye of God so commonly depicted at the top of Enlightenment paintings.
In many ways, the corporate social-responsibility model depends less on cost-benefit analysis than on a sort of monarchical enlightenment at the top; even inside Mattel, in fact, there was a moment when the entire edifice that Sethi had built was in danger of being axed by one man.
Each painting has a faux-bronze frame carved with small symbols representing different stages of enlightenment and punctuated at the top by a round, electrically illuminated stained-glass image of an eye in the tip of a pyramid.
The Beacon Journal, it seemed, had become a proud model of racial enlightenment, and the men were at the top of their careers.
The realm of geographical fantasy retreated far to the north, where in the following century the successors to that Enlightenment spirit would pursue it to the very top of the globe.
It is a top-down project, with a lineage stretching back to the Enlightenment, in which technocrats come up with what they see as a blueprint for happiness: clear, rational and beautiful.
Since the Enlightenment, one mode of science has always been dominant, the top metaphor that educated people use to talk about experience.
As early as the 1600s, Enlightenment thinkers saw their world at the threshold of top-to-bottom transformation.
Filled with passion, I traveled across the U.S., and even to India, to interview the top teachers about the big questions of life: love, truth, happiness, purpose, karma, enlightenment, and more.
If it were 1004 A.D., I could imagine him leading us in prayer at the top of a cliff right before we all jumped off in an attempt to gain enlightenment.
