Cultural Apocalypse by Means of Comedy – Cartoon Patriotism, Cartoon Humanism: Alain Resnais’ “I Want to Go Home” (1989)
28 Oct
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
One More Masterpiece from Resnais: This Time a Tough Comedy Difficult to Swallow To end up hiding under the bed seems to be the destiny of those with narcissistic (perceived as arrogant) innocence. By their naively self-centered behavior they unintentionally provoke resistance and even hate in others. Picture is not available: Joey visits his daughter’s [...]
The Main Socio-psychological Benefit of Wars
20 Oct
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
Absolutized Human Figures and Dogmas as Icon/flags and Flag/Icons Most of us are not able to live without gluing to absolutized human figures, political dogmas and existential axioms. Without these giants and their immensely exaggerated wisdoms ordinary humans are like bees without pollen, like birds without the sky, or like feet without ground. The world [...]
Money-Mania (Moneyia) As a Masochistic Obsession Money has always been like a despotic leader talking to people in the language of commands. The reason money is not perceived as a commanding despot is that it talks to human beings not from outside them but from inside, with a voice of their own drives, desires and [...]
Returning to Rene Magritte’s Painting
06 Oct
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
Rene Magritte’s “The Great War” (1964) In the article posted on June 13 I tried to understand more about the psychology of war mongering and war-making through the analysis of Magritte’s painting. Why we cannot learn how to resolve the international conflicts in a more rational – peaceful, way? In 2009 this question is even [...]
Two Strategies of Handling the Population: to Make People to Feel Self- Sacrificial or to Feel Grateful for the Chance to Live
05 Oct
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
The Conformist Feeling of Gratitude to Our Leaders, Bosses, Traditions and the Benevolent Destiny for Keeping Us Away from Death As soon as stress of life is going up (and people start to worry about their survival more literally) the population produces two reactions – readiness for self-sacrifice (for the sake of us-protecting idols – [...]
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- Edouard Manet’s “Portrait of Stephane Mallarme” (1876) – Painterly and Poetic Discourses as Making Argument without Arguing
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- Emil Nolde’s “Sunflowers/Sonnenblumen” (1930) – When Human Creativity Awakens Eternity into Life
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “Chinese Roulette” (1976) – Parental Perfectionist Expectations (Placed on Their Children) As a Target of Child’s Rebellion
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