Debt Rattle May 12 2018
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder Dulle Griet, also known as Mad Meg 1563 • If Real Consumer Spending Doesn’t Reverse Course, Look Out Retail Stocks (St
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 12 2018]Wow; Pieter Bruegel the Elder; Dulle Griet, also known as Mad Meg 1563.
I clicked the picture, which revealed a lot of information.
The picture itself is rich in color and images, including the mouth of hell, anthropomorphized in a gross human head.
Mad Meg is a very unattractive figure which would fit the narrative, which by todays standards, I find funny in an amused way…Some of those guys in the southern Netherlands/Flanders had some weird visions back in the day. Jan van Eyck, Bosch, the Bruegels, they all lived in that small part of the world, in different times (15-16-17th century). They didn’t know each other, and we don’t know if they knew of each other. Maybe it was something in the soil or the air.
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
That’s interesting; I wonder how much the church influenced their work?
My guess would be, quite a bit.
That image of the mouth of hell, and Mad Meg leading the women to plunder hell smacks of a strong influence of the church and its dogma.
Maybe a renunciation of it?It was all church all the time. But somewhere during the period Luther came in. Who must have been compared to Satan more than Satan himself at the time. And all of his followers were certain to go to hell. Still, I don’t think we know enough of the painters to understand where exactly they stood in all of this.
Ilargi
Indeed, it’s all conjecture.
Pity; it would have been nice, but likely dangerous, to extrapolate the symbolism of their work during that period.
But then, hasn’t art always been interpreted? The inquisition comes to mind, often to a deadly end…Syria is just part of a deal Trump couldn’t refuse.
To his credit, Assad recognizes that Trump’s just a middle man:
https://www.rt.com/news/426342-trump-assad-deep-state-syria/
What do you do if you have a sparse population of illiterate hunter-gatherers that live hundreds of kilometers away from the richer, more educated population able to provide health care and higher education? If you leave them alone then, since there is no economic activity that can generate any sort of the income needed for supporting a modern lifestyle, you will be excoricated for your racist neglect, for leaving a portion of your population in a backward (aka traditional) lifestyle. If you provide them with education and care down south with the goal of integrating them into the general population, there will be angry shouts calling you white supremacists and cultural genociders, you will have to apologize and you have got a lawsuit coming. If you go the separate, Indian hospital road, then there will be angry shouts about apartheid, you will have to apologize and you have got a lawsuit coming.
This is just so funny:
Got Those Climate Change Blues
A meteorologist and journalist struggles with climate change depressionThis article appeared in February 2018 – and was probably written in the depths of the American winter.
People who live in a cold climate are far more worried about the fake “Global Warming” narrative – because that is what a cold climate does to your brain.
Here in Cairns, I am living in an Airbnb house while looking for a proper abode. There is a constant stream of northerners who arrive totally wooden and after a few days, they start to become almost human. The landlady and I joke about it.
Two days ago, a Danish student couple (age 20) arrived and were very difficult to communicate with as they were so shy and withdrawn. Yesterday, the girl told me that she is planning to wear her bikini tomorrow. Amazing. Such progress in only 2 days. She is even smiling sometimes. 🙂
Tabernick the story of Aboriginal people in Canada us much more complex than what you have described. Take a look at the book The Inconvenient Indian for a start. How would you justify the experimentation on Aboriginal children as described here? How do you justify the government forcing Aboriginal people onto reserves located on the worst land which was highly contaminated? This is not just a question of the inconvenience of accommodating a small sparse population. The explicit government agenda was to extinguish Aboriginal culture.
This is absolutely amazing. Someone leaked a video of a large number of Israeli military intelligence people singing a famous Iranian song. Here is their version:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/video-of-idf-soldiers-singing-persian-love-song-goes-viral-in-iran/
And this is the country they want to destroy – with the help of big brother.
Of course the story of aboriginal nations in Canada is extremely complex. But the basic problem remains. You have a relatively small population, fragmented in dozens of nations, scattered in hundreds of villages, of people who are often severely undereducated, living mostly far from any economic activities, sharing a country with a completely different population with a totally different culture and economic development. So of course cohabitation will be a challenge, and of course economic outcomes are going to be radically different.
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