V. Arnold
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Prussia also had a huge influence on the western educational system as we know it today; a legacy few realize.
Many of us view this with scorn; the failure of western education is with us to this day…in spades…Claude Monet O Rio (The River) 1881
What a mess…
I find nothing to admire re-Claude Monet O Rio (The River) 1881
…and so it goes……….René Magritte The Art of Conversation 1963
I knew that was a Magritte the instant I layed eyes upon it…
The Art of Conversation; wonderful…made my day, it did………..We’re so screwed! We’re blasted with lies 24/7/365 about everything; nothing is too small to be ignored/left to chance…
TAE is a refuge where we can catch our breathe between attacks…….but, we must remain vigilant at every step; trust nothing, even TAE, without doing you’re due diligance……….
At some point I fear TAE will be swarmed with/by the galoots to rid us of this bastion of truth….@ Michael Reid
Having been a debt monkey until about 2003; I would rate debt as the single biggest control factor for most USians…
It also factors in hugely here in the Land of Smiles for most citizens, unfortunately.If you were raised on bologna,drank Coke, played in the dirt, got my butt spanked, etc., etc. ………
Damn straight/right!
I can’t even imagine growing up in today’s world…it is anti-life……………Gustave Dore Dante and Virgil among the late penitents 1868
The art lately is very dark; but matches exquisitley with our lived reality…
Gustave Dore Dante and Virgil among the late penitents 1868 • Tucker Carlson: The People Who Run America Are “Dangerous And Insane”
Wow; he actually said it; good for him………
….but really bad for us…
I left 20 years ago; I do not feel safe…
…but I feel much better than if I had stayed……..Gustave Dore Dante and The Ninth Circle of Hell (Treachery) 1857
Todays art seems especially relevant; Treachery is a most vile act and is a frequent part of todays world…both in the day-to-day; and the world at large…we need to proceed very cautiously in our daily lives….
Ivan Aivazovsky Sea channel with lighthouse 1873
Another awesome work of wonder; mercy, Aivazovsky is…words fail…
Thanks Ilargi…Jessie Willcox Smith From The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald 1920
Even the shadow of the hand of the princes strikes fear into the goblins…
I think there is a message there…duh?????????I must say; I find the gloating here over death and destruction very disturbing…
The arm chair warriors here display a level of hubris and hypocracy I find unsettling even in these trying times…
Not a very encouraging attitude on a path to the future…In every tank there sit some men belovéd by their kith and kin.
When it explodes those young men die and cause those kith and kin to cry.Yes, so true…
I said similar a number of months back…crickets…
Our media, starved of intellect, revels in war porn. Youtube brings it right into your livingroom.
Almost never is there a dissenting word on the carnage/death wrought by our ghoulish media…
The price of this, paid for by the viewer, is a steady erosion of our collective humanity…
The Age of Death/War covers the earth…Edward Hopper Chair Car 1965
The woman on the left is looking at the woman on the right…
What does that signify? That seat car is pretty empty…The electric car is a scam..
You couldn’t get me to give up my diesel/gas vehicals unless you put a gun to my head!
…and even then I would resist………
Good luck suckers………@ T-Bear #140414
Most all the population spend their existence well within the small boxes of their lives, never venturing much beyond the immediate horizon of that box. Alien to them is anything beyond that horizon and alien is equivilent, well , to alien, foreign, unknown or unknowable, dangerous.Boy oh boy; you nailed it!
As with you, I know first hand the truth of that.
Fear rules most of the western populations as near as I can tell…
Fear is the ultimate tool of control and the object of that fear doesn’t even need to be tangible…
Nuclear War No Worse Than Climate Change – Blinken (RT)
That encapsulates nicely the morons leading the U.S. government and the western world!
May the gods help us through the coming travails………..The war porn is flooding the intertubes.
The dark side of humanity is titillated by all the real time murder and mayhem, the inevitable result of a system that glorifies all sides in ongoing conflict…
What’s forgotten is that for every televised bomb/missile strike, somebodies brother, son, husband or friend is killed or maimed in that realtime, surrealistic “entertainment”…
Be careful out there; your mental health/humanity is being torn assunder in that very same realtime reportage’…………Andy Warhol Ingrid Bergman 1984
This and, the Grace Kelley piece, should dispell any notion Warhol was not a serious artist….
A genius in fact; we should be grateful for his brief appearance in our universe…Hayami Gyoshu Tea bowl and fruits 1921
Couldn’t let this one slide by without a comment:
Classic Japanese art; a genuine stunner…#139283REPLY
Formerly T-Bear
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What is this crap about personal pronouns? A word comes to mind containing all forms of gender as well as non-gender . Shit, covers them all, it’s the world they inhabit, the cesspit. Those inhabiting this world all mothered of assholes, fathered of fake food, cradled in the toilet, matriculate to the toobs, educated in wastewater treatment and released into reality – the world.It is the waste of the time of day to give them the time of day; a foolish effort – where is cancel culture when needed?
I dragged this up from yesterday; it’s well worth a second look.
Woke culture is the path to totalitarianism with its language and coded words.
Do not try to control me or anybody else with double speak and proper pronouns bullshit! Western culture (an oxymoron) is already well on the road to purgatory and worse…
TAE is a rare and precious place to dwell thanks to our host Raul Ilargi Meijer…UGH!
I also did not mean to imply that the U.S. is the center of the universe; they most assuredly are not!
Anyhoo…big trouble ahead……The level. Of Western. Insanity. Bends my image of the whole universe. Is the Universe even large enough, heavy enough, grand enough, to have this kind of denial and stupidity resting in it? Don’t we really need another universe to hold objects this large?
I do not have an answer to that last question…
But what I do know is that in the U.S., they are a very damaged and sick society…
Everything falls from there…it’s not an encouraging place to begin to find answers…Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full.One for my master,
One for my dame,
And none for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.
…and here we are…Giovanni Strazza The Veiled Virgin, Carrera marble 1850s
That marble bust (The Veiled Virgin) is truly beautiful; and beyond language to describe IMHO…
One of the wonders of human expression….
