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One more thing, as Columbo would have said:
Qualified people, but marginalized in this grand scheme of things that society had turned into, suddenly find themselves in temptation to accept employment by likes of B.G. and support their agenda and be well paid for that. With pressure from the spouse and desire to provide for the kids, no wonder line easy to cross.Bill Gates.
“Right of ANYBODY to have an opinion on ANYTHING”, that I’ve written about couple of days ago, taken 1000 steps further in this case.
Moneyed man ventures into the field that he’s not qualified for, and accepted as a most natural phenomena (you know, democracy, freedom…). One thing is when an actress, school dropout because she could not pass a chemistry class starts a line of perfumes. This a totally different game of single individual playing with the planet. And only THEN that we get outraged, mind you!CBSN empty head and this. No difference at all:
Chick from the 2007 video, with sound turned off, was symbolic metaphor how once mighty nation is presenting itself to the world. Only with the sound on, it’s true nature is revealed.
When he in the motion of “bringing left and right together” joined the his palms I could hear the crushing sound of an empty shell that country is.Another great work by Basquiat, an artist with that rare raw talent for expression using the paint brush At great personal cost,
On side note: Jimmy Dore on YouTube with Max Blumenthal lately as a guest. Integrity and intelligence at it’s finest.
No surprise to me that they are viewed as “you know what”, even by regular working man in the country, because they do not view, say majestic Hoover dam – built in one of the darkest times in the US history, as a colossal waste of money through government provided work and not appalled by it.For democracy to really function great majority of people should be fully aware of what Matt Taibi is telling in the video.
Or Dan Savino makes that presentation only to be received by the blind eyes and deaf ears. If one has opposing view to mine but I know that he/she is aware what I just mentioned that I can respect and contemplate it. My thoughts somewhere along this lines that I did not express correctly in my exchange with Mr. House month or so ago, re democracy. Another misunderstanding of it, this time outside of political life, is that EVERYBODY can have an opinion about ANYTHING and freely expressing with that trembling but self assured voice of “conviction”. That would be one of the things that immigrants from the “other side of curtain” would have noticed, but were promptly reminded that they are coming from “iron fist rule” and better start enjoying high kite fly of expressing oneself regarding sweater knitting or quantum physics that one knows nothing about. Literary CLASSICS were star rated buy the amazon book purchasers!
I immensely enjoy Kunstler’s wit in writing. Blog, regardless on later focus on politics of the US, is mainly about energy depletion which does not prevent line of commentators to light up like teenage girls on hearing the name of an teen-idol the moment internal combustion engine is mentioned by someone and often off topic.What is in Rickards’ excellent article could be for a good part a reason of sudden “need for Covid-scare”.
Power entity must have a field day just watching utter confusion out there, regarding masks and vaccines. They are not in the hurry.So many cementers on various blogs, admirers of Thatcher in orgasmic parroting of her “Other people’s money” quote could never have reached to Ken Leach’s conclusion by themselves, or even when reading it they are still blind to the irony.
When “The Babylon bee” can hardly be read as a satire any longer.
Or snippet of reason by the host, preceding each article, like torn flag in the wind.
@ a.g.
Thanks for posting the vid of the game even I am not particular fan of it, however beautifully done highlights made it palatable. $ 15,000 (bit over $100,000 in today’s $) per player of a winning team – talking about an insult to today’s in the game. What the beautiful time to live in the US. Stadium full of people who had no mortgage, rent or any other financial problems (up to the point, of course). Peace of mind guaranteed as long as one shows up for honest day of work. Speaking of which brings me to Bruce Springsteen. Never liked any singer who would forcibly push the gravel voice (M. Bolton is another case), but in my mind, somehow, he always represented that “all American construction worker” – specie complacently erased from the job sites across the nation. Proud earner of good living is replaced by low pay and on demand legal and illegal imports from the south, working, what appears, all seven days in a week. Speaking of which brings me to demographics. In my circle of friends, an idea of fewer kids is related to ability to provide decent upbringing for them. I had known some couples who were just “one child over”, which meant that for many activities if they could not pay for all nobody goes to.
Population is swelling from the places and a people who could least afford it. Earth would be helped a lot if, at least, most of sapiens do not leave pile of garbage behind.Yesterday, on the car radio two hosts “leisurely” talking during the break on otherwise musical program.
“People who got vaccine are perfectly OK not to wear mask and that would “mark” them as Covid-free for the immediate passers-by. However, there are people who, while not vaccinated, would still walk without the mask. And, see, because those bad apples, now everybody needs to wear.”
You have to give it to “them” for superb coordination world wide, and persistence in the drum beat.Berlin cca 1937. Hubby to his wife: “Listen honey, I got this great piece of land where we can move away from everything.” Or WWI trenches that we see in scratchy reels and wonder, since we were so detached from such a existence, how “poor souls” can possibly be in such a mess. Life, dreams and talent destroyed on mass scale.
If one can answer why he/she thinks that “this time is different”, as not to find oneself in similar position (for further generations to marvel about), that pretty much is the key for surfacing at the other end alive and, as some are also expecting, well.While the US politicians were selling the country and making China strong having them sell us cheep plastic trinkets, life for the most in the country was, still, way too good to notice or bother. Atop of that if good number in citizenry finds particular enjoyment in “interest” of how people in “other system” live, or at best, imagining how “that system” is creeping it’s way into the country, there you have it.
Raw immediacy of early sixties pop art, still fresh as six decades ago. USA has quite a few high points in art, in general, to be proud of.
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Thank you for the post. I will go into sunset thinking why is it so hard for the anybody to get it. He’s pointing to the dictators and system of the past that has nothing to do with us, right now. But he’s making clear WHO we should be concerned about HERE and NOW and why. Ideologically fogged minds simply refuse to even contemplate such a notion, and have their eyes fixed on the past – but not beyond 1917. Monsters come in all shapes and forms throughout in history.Only people who may have a problem with this Balthus are the ones who think that some painting of nude should entice the same reaction as, God forbid, centerfold spread. At which point young girl, or boy, start to “dream”?
Problem is that Epsteins and Clintons of the world think that they are the theme of that dreamRobin hood cartoon as a flash back on another cartoon character, Ragnar Danneskjöld, pirate from the “Atlas shrugged”.
Art imitates “art”.
To see JPM buckle would have bee a something to behold.
Any legal action against behemoth corporation makes me laugh which turns into uneasy cough.Yesterday’s string of comments was a quite a “Left-right” stew with heavy spice of Mao-Stalin (but not a Genghis Kan or Attila “the whip of God”?) for the good measure. WES, even I agree with him on Tulsi as someone saying the right message while, really enjoying herself looking pretty, managed to insult a brigade of rock band members with his “Supply of pretty girls 24/7, is a communist trait”.
Yesterday’s Kandinsky was great. Hundred years ago the guy decided to paint music or waves and broke away with visible world. Great work by Lempicka, as if Picasso had said: ” I will be doing something else. Can you take it from here?” (meaning his classical period) and she’d answered “Sure!”
Per my brief scan, it’s been a while since Dr D posted his beloved “c” and “s” words, even though I can feel the itch in his fingers.
Brilliant string of financial articles about something that did not change in decades. Humor for us to indulge, money for them.
Good to notice recently, that there are quite a few interested in the FIRST thing posted daily on TAE.
After the speech by Dr James Lyon – two or three person lame hand clap. Members of CON playing the game of “not being there” to hear it.
Tulsi had to “admit”, first, that there was a “mob storming the Capitol” before making her point across. That’s classic DC’s chicken legs in the yarn that keeps them busy.
What is it in for “them” by proposing a term limit? I mean, just imagine Marco Rubio or Rick Scott leaving the post with the sense that they “served enough”? What is the act about? Being a safety valve to let some steam off and reinstall bit of hope and belief in the system?
For decades, even any minimum wage, butt hanging dork was defending the right of “he must be smart” to amass any amount that he can muster by any means. Any questioning of that was labeled with “s” or “c” word.
What is the outrage then, again?As for the art, as Jimmy Dore would have said…….. just enjoy the “radiation”.
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As long as you are with reasonable skill and “in the zone” while working on that canvas you are on the good track.@sumac.carol
Bill G’s lands will look more like something straight from the Follett’s “Pillars of the Earth” and “World without end”, medieval sagas, rather than “kolkhoz” that was in the making according to some “in the know”.
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To be fair this one has a narrative, but struggling to decouple from it, akin to early model cars where heavy hand of horse carriage design thinking was a starting point. All other “narrative backed” paintings throughout the history are feast for the eye, no doubt, but have one think in common with abstract art and that is, (loud alarm: “coooorny!”) something like a faint “radiation-back” embedded into the pigment (again sounds corny as shit) in the process of creation. No other way to explain it. Absence of it renders work as mere illustration.Massive amount talk about “broken supply chain”, “failure to provide enough”…etc. about something that will not make a dent in mandate to wear masks, keep the distance or anything that we’re required to do in 2020.
Dawn of an abstract art, where an artist got that sudden urge, but also a fight with realization that painting does not have to have a narrative, beautifully rendered detail, play of light and shadow or anything representative. Then he got “scared” and added a figure, Banksy-like stencil. Really like an afterthought.
No Mr. House. I did not formulate my last post as clear as I’d intended, which is: “In democracy everyone should have right to their opinion (which I do agree), while even if we disagree with the opposing opinion we should, at the same time, “at any cost defend the right to it” (which I think is disingenuous to say at least for major life and societal issues).
This morning’s, an excellent, basket of posts is nothing but stories of frictions and only insane person would think that opposing sides would “defend” other side’s right to their own thought. Something,.as I’d, said that caught me by surprise last year by observing the rift in the country.
Our exchange looks more and more like Challenger’s “Y” in the sky. Even, what you call ANTIFA and I call Antifascists are two different things in our heads. If you google Stjepan Filipovic (among others in WWII) you’ll see what I mean.For a just brief moment I thought that painting was by Klee. New name to me. Google search shows some really good monumental canvas art by him.
You did not have a “list”. Fair enough.
Let me conclude: For the most part of my life I took democratic idea of having a right to one’s opinion and obligation to “defend it at any cost” with “of course, what else” attitude, Watching the nation divided and different groups “expressing” themselves in various ways SUDDENLY it dawned to me how that notion is full of crap and most hypocritical ever uttered by men. Hawing hit that cognitive dissonance wall, I was hoping for some clarification of what is that I am missing.
That’s all. No more questions from me, I promise.Mr. House
Getting nowhere, as I’d said “I, myself is grappling with the concept.”
Would not have made my post addressed to you, if I have not sensed almost salivating gusto the way you made list of “stupid comments”. Also noticed (see, again!) irritating tone in your reply. Aren’t my “opinion” equal to yours? Embrace it, dude!
Now, add me to your list.@ Mr. House
Have we ever stopped and ponder the thought that in democracy one should actually embrace those comments that you’ve listed and “fight to death” so they can be expressed? Why eye roll and dismay?
What are the wars of “protecting our democracy” or “bringing (even false) democracy to others”?
I am not trying to be smart ass but as someone grappling with the entire concept myself.
What is the solution? Some ruler, “Good King” in Jungian sense, with white knights of justice? Hardly human concept.The way how soldiers are treated shows a true face of $1T war machine.
Race issue in the US. Once when I was in NY I actually realized how people in LA basin are self-segregated for the good part and like it that way. Mostly car transportation helps further in that direction.
12,000 Covid infections is a good thing – hopefully it will question the purpose then stop vaccination craze.
Sunflowers, “starry night” and all “wavy” paintings like this are so “chocolate box” commercialized that I rather prefer his other work.
With Trump, that was that. Unfunded hate toward him, at least compared to ‘the 3’ from last night congratulatory speech who rather walked away scorn free. Democracy is telling us that is perfectly OK – that’s is exactly how people had wanted all along and that is something to celebrate for no other reason but “just-because”. I can see Kamala practicing her maniacal laugh in the WH hallways.
Young Pollock in his 20’s and, naturally, under the influence of Picasso. Penchant for swirls, indeed.
Pictures of an empire posted by Topcat and reality, best described by an email just received from Sears where I shopped last time that I do not even remember when:
“Oooops! (that’s how advertisers treat grown person, a potential buyer. Why? It worked in the past.). It looks that we extended (sshhh, only for you) our shop deals. Don’t miss it!”What’s with Trump’s swastika marked drum? In all his clumsiness Trump was the president who revealed utter rot of the
city and those who we hold as as our lawmakers. Career climb to some jobs with lofty names but far cry from real public service. Interwoven fabric where anybody’s nod can elevate or sink somebody’s career is lunacy pot of living in fear, from which we are expecting that decisions made are to benefit us.Bombing in Somalia (and elsewhere). Compare that to the map of Europe with Roman built roads posted couple days ago. Austro-Hungarian empire had too, penchant to build roads and rails. Good number of buildings in distant reaches of an empire were of such a quality as if designed for the city of Vienna’s center.
Covid, of course new, even deadlier strains measured buy the unreliable test. Proles are using a calculator too much and discovering that numbers does not make sense.
Left leg of a beautiful young woman was deliberately painted not to be as graceful but rather of somebody who is about to a wreck havoc.
Is there still chance for the Assange?
Year later, site commentators and me included are still alive. Some of us could have sworn that had something like mild Covid symptoms. In the family, on my wife’s side, there were a few cases, that were over in a few weeks with no “deadly virus casualties” but more like “time not to visit untie and uncle since they have cough and fever” of our past. Excessive Covid-talk legitimizes over the board induced fear, IMAO of course. As mentioned, we all did what we had been doing our entire life – being reasonably cautious in the “season” and maintaining basic hygiene, given that we are also, again reasonably, healthy..
Painting like today’s, done in a single breath, is nothing more like stepping stone or warm up for the “real work”, thus not his best. Equivalent of writer’s 1000-word-a-day-no-matter-what. Actually, power of the “brand” make one take a second look.
Not that I am contradicting other opinions, but I think that artist did not had in mind “reporting” or bringing awareness about horrors of slavery in sense that some contemporary photographer would have done having a concealed camera in Arabic costume. “Reporting” in his time would have been more effective with series by much faster and “less beautiful, if you will, but more repulsive” lithographs.
If Trump does not pardon Assange I may question my wasting of emotional energy in support for him.
Despite movie industry producing quite a few absolute masterpeaces the “fucking A” guy on the video got a lowest denominator bug from it. That shallowness in acting is actually celebrated and accepted, akin to Harley riders who after week end of expressing their “free spirit” DESPITE bowing their heads Monday morning to enter the work force and earn the payment for the hog.
Love that second half of XIX century romanticism, idealism and symbolism where, despite the “weird or odd” theme, we feel as we can walk into. Particular rendered nude body of a girl is something that “could have been”, unlike, say Botticelli’s “Venus with the body that we can not associate with.
Zig-zag folds of a buyer robe display a drama in his head while “working the numbers”. Youth behind, maybe his son learning the business, with stern look and suppressing the urges which are disclosed with faint glowing red robe.
All that done with master hand-eye coordination, without photographs and projectors that realism painters are cheating with today and producing mere illustrations.Brilliant observation by Orwell, however every day life paradox, which is really a fear of loosing everything that you got, is more beneficial to power entity. Stock holders, ordinary workers in MIC, mountain top removal mining or fracking, service workers forced to up sell by employers. etc are really not in favor of sudden change that would be “morally right” or closure of business. “Lucky” are the ones who see no problem or God forbid paradox.
Inauguration where newly elected candidates will be accompanied by the family members. Hunter will be standing there, eight foot tall, laughing into the face of USA while “insurrectionists” are being persecuted. Right after the anthem they may play, electronically enhanced from scratchy WWII records, an “Erika”.
There is a growing cautionary voice in Europe buy the leading medical academics about Covid trap that we are being led to. One of them is Mira Aleckovic, with doctorate from Sorbona. She was sounding an alarm bells as early as March of
last year, together with her Serbian colleague Jovana Stojkovic in studio surrounded with masked and gloved “voice of reason”. Unfortunately there is no YouTube video with translation that I can link. Almost forgotten world where academics speak half a dozen languages, compared to bought and paid American one language academic cattle.Had not seen this one before.
Left over of a blue paint and girl in the “La Bateau”
Entire nude done in the master assured command of drawing skill. Then he decides not to enclose the outline of her left hip and made her right leg growing out of it. That leg is oddly stiff and square, as a mirror reflecting the dark smudge of
her crotch. Picasso, Picasso.Dr.D, Dr.D, tss, tss
“Because (socialism) got us here over 100 years and everything’s broken”.
Nothing wrong with the statement if somebody mentioned it at least three times in the year prior to September of 2007, as a warning by the keen observer. Nobody ever did. What was Vietnam war for?
I can clearly see Jimmy Dore, wide eyed, spreading his arms in “see what I mean” gesture and saying: “And this guy is actually watching my daily posts.”Note to myself: Never, ever post anything “Marx”. People grown on baby powder milk, McCarthy brand are set for life.
Circus of impeachment parade yesterday, shaky emotional voices coached by night before call: “You know what to say. Right?” if ever was the one. DC – Hollywood for the, not only physically, ugly people indeed.
Based just of direction of immigration flow, in all post war decades, one can comfortably say that capitalism had an upper hand over it’s counterpart. So why kick the opponent who is already on the ground? Why, right after the FDR death, and somehow by miracle of a perfect timing “Atlas shrugged” surfaced into day light, followed by McCarthy craze? All culminating in the end, eighties, where Rambo was slaughtering Soviets in droves and “Gulag archipelago” declared the best book written, ever. Why constant drumbeat: Stalin. Mao, Stalin, Mao? Because in “socialism overall package there is that little nasty seed that Michael Hudson (and Ricardo over century ago) is talking about. While promoting the glory of “better mousetrap inventor”, power entity was all this time really protecting rentier, easy money class which today, we can say it, almost has a full control.
Always looking for Arnold’s art comment out of sheer curiosity. As they say in my country: One who sings (or making genuine effort to “get” art, as in this case) has no evil thoughts.
I don’t know the Reardon reference. He is the revolutionary industrialist in “Atlas Shrugged”.
By the author whose work, I gather, you admire.
Industrialist as character who puts comic book hero to shame – for over seven decades was, and still is, an “inspiration” for generations of brainwashed who have no no (proverbial) pot to piss in and not seeing that THEY are those unwashed slobs so frequently referred as in the book with gusto.
And Elon? Same drive and attitude. What gives? He’s not good for us as society. Isn’t that exactly what the “book” preach? Yes, but he’s not a “real” capitalist, but since being bad we have a convenient label for somebody like that….
I could go on but getting tired, and long writing is no my forte.“We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” Elon Musk
How is that different from “Rearden alloy maker” numerous quotes? Oh, Elon is “impure” maybe, since he’s got bit of
“government assistance” big no-no from the factious giant of industry. That alone pushes away all the children in rags, toiling in the factories and mines, man and women with 12 hour work days and numerous charts to document it and places HIM (and his ilk) right in the center of Marx’s writing. Elon & Co – socialists/commies!
Saker on unz:
https://www.unz.com/tsaker/the-mob-did-not-win/
But, of course, what does he know having lived in socialist country.Girl dissolving in his presence, nothing short of that..
Hollywood production of “his v-r-l-d view and how things v-r-k in democracy”. Dose of anti-Semitism reminder, as regular practice in just about any TV show, movie or book written lately, but not the reminder of lost jobs, hope and the meaning in life. When feeling down go and see “my/our” movie – you’ll feel better instantly.
I am always puzzled how Magritte (and Hopper too) paints human flesh in soft-cover book illustration manner but still looks great.
