29 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Max Ernst, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
The Great Surrealist Painter Helps Us to Sort Out the Political Forces in American Mid-term Election The Republican candidate for governor of New York, Carl Paladino, said he would transform some New York prisons into dormitories for welfare recipients. “Instead of handling out the welfare checks, we’ll teach people how to earn their check.” – […]
25 Oct 2010
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
What Can Fassbinder’s Emmy and Ali Teach us, Americans, in the Beginning of 21st Century? At what moment does Abraham reawaken the memory of his being-foreign in a foreign, land? For Abraham does indeed recall that he is destined by God to be a guest, an immigrant, a foreign body in a foreign land (“Go […]
19 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays, The Poor People’s Paradise, the Rich’s Hell – Relaxed Existence VS. Over-calculation
Mental Grazing or Mental Alertness, Reacting on or Initiating Actions You cannot imagine how difficult it is to persuade a twenty year old American to get a library card to start reading on her/his own and/or watching not-Hollywoodized films! Well, many young people do use the libraries but either for playing violent video-games or for […]
16 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays, Worshippers of Wealth
Financially Obese Rich, Bodily Shrinking but Statistically Widening Poor, and the Smothered Middle Class Worshippers, wealthshippers, warshippers… American middle class is in trouble together with its professions, professionalism and with the idea of respectability of professionalism. What to respect if Indians and Chinese can have the same professional knowledge and expertise that Americans are so […]
14 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays, What Communist party was for the Soviet (Totalitarian) Government, Corporations are for (Neo-conservative) American Government
Structural Trinity of Macro Interests in Democracy: Rich and Powerful, a Large Population and a Democratic Government Like American global corporations today, Communist Party leadership in U.S.S.R. was the unconditional beneficiary of Soviet politico-economic system – it enjoyed absolute power over decision-making about the present and the future of life in the country. And, of […]
09 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Victor Brauner
Childhood Psychological Trauma Transforms Human Being’s Soul into a Chimera It is difficult to imagine Dick Cheney, Glen Beck or Berny Madow’s soul as Brauner’s chimera – so different she looks from their rude – anti-humane, anti-scholarly, anti-intellectual, anti-sensitive, anti-empathic faces. She is a beauty who refuses the cult of beauty while faces of people […]
04 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Edouard Manet, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed
The Circle of Individual Life Span and the Artist Looking Ahead through 148 years Edouard Manet, “Old Musician”, 1862 The majority of people are swallowed by everyday life like the Biblical Jonah by the “big fish” – they go through the days, learn how to survive, they adapt, calculate, move from custom to custom, from […]
01 Oct 2010
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Photographic art and posters analyzed, Sociological essays, What Childhood Photos of Churchill and Hitler Can Teach Us?
The Child-Winston and Child-Adolph – the Difference between Democracy and Totalitarianism The boy Hitler is already challenging authorities – his nose is proudly up, his crossed arms demonstrate independence. His soul is a rebel, and he is damn serious about his rebellion. The boy Churchill, on the other hand, is too individualistic and self-centered to […]
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