‘Accordion factories and mime schools.’
Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Marcel Marceau has got to go.
‘Accordion factories and mime schools.’
Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Marcel Marceau has got to go.
“You can’t be a successful dictator and design women’s underwear. One or the other. Not both.”
Some say ‘Delicatessen’, with its 156 minute run-time, is a slog. Three hours of film cut down from eight, taking place entirely within a midday Parisian deli, can be a bit much. Half-heard conversations. A 13 minute single-shot discussion of death, children and cheese.
Others say no modern work illuminates as many centuries of French history, family tensions and socio-economic struggles as does this modern French classic.
***Auteur theory: New Wave theory holds that the two female protagonists are simply puppets for Clement Barreau’s own failed marriages, disgraced career as a pop-signer, and his desire to ‘burn down the Sorbonne and stand like Napoleon within’.
After Clement Barreau’s infamous 1967 Dakar rally accident, his body was returned to Paris from the colonial deserts.
C’est la vie, mon ami…
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***Easily manipulable images and standardized, formalized text are happening right now. Keep your bullshit detectors finely-tuned.
First, from Darwinian Conservatism: On the Question of Religion and Ethics, Adam Smith Was the Last Esoteric Writer:
‘…”yes, a God-like being plays a central role in Smith’s ethics.” In making that argument, he believes that he is in agreement with a long list of Smith scholars, and I am on that list.‘
Whether or not it’s the new Technocratic (S)cientific Consensus of (M)an, or the new Gospels of (M)an, we might want to remember much of the context the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers had.
I hope we don’t get too esoteric and Straussian.
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Because you didn’t ask:
I think of enviro-preachers more on the Gospel side of things. They move like unwell country pastors, seeking-out soapboxes near the Sunday Service.
‘Is he still married?’ Doesn’t he live out near Cooper’s farm?’
The original sin is industrialization, you see, and we are all sinners. The cure always seems to be more Humanist/Anti-Humanist gospel. Liberal idealists hate to be caught too close to such utopian, poorly-groomed men, where questionable dressing habits usually indicate a (C)ommitment the (C)ause.
‘I hear he rides his e-bike eighteen miles one-way from Stockbridge to buy ox-meat.‘
‘“Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.
Out: Older kooks with older media.
In: Newer kooks, whose mental instability is therapeutic, and a sign of passionate authenticity:
Tim Black at Spiked: “The Ongoing Creation Of Greta Thunberg.“
‘It is all very disconcerting. From her breakdown, to her recitation of carbon-emission facts, the Greta that emerges in Our House is on Fire doesn’t feel like an individual. She feels like a fictional device. A God’s fool-style character, descended down to Earth to expose our folly.’
Come on down!
Shit! Tell me you didn’t buy a house with The GovCo Collective Housing & Blackrock Authority?
It’s built on an environmentalist burial ground!
As posted: (it’s a long one): ‘Postmodern Religion And The Faith Of Social Justice‘
Let’s say you use mathematics and/or engineer systems, in pursuit of new knowledge and truth.
Come worship at the Human Pagoda!
Are you an artist, captivated by the beauty of this world?
We have an ecopodment for you.
At the cutting-edge Institute of Global Citizens (IGC), we draft rules for tomorrow’s leaders.
As a thought-leader, your contributions will feed into a Council of Purely Democratic Representation, uniting our fractured world and restoring Nature’s purity.
Swim in the warm bath of the (S)elf. Float in the bowl of Romantic Nature.
Freedom is next at Peace Pavilion West.
As posted, someone called me a Postmodern Conservative a while back, and I’d just like to say that there are many identities juxtaposed at the intersectionality of bodies in space. Dominant narratives, meta-narratives, and counter-narratives serve to liber…
Merry Christmas!
“Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.”
“You can’t be a successful dictator and design women’s underwear. One or the other. Not both.”