It is, of course, Grayson Perry who wears the frocks. I always make this mistake because I can't tell pottery from prose.
On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 6:34:56 PM UTC, archytas wrote: > > There is a certain 'scratch a liberal find a bigot' involved in this. My > theory, held in a 'for what its worth' perspective, is that the vast > majority of what flows in front of us as human activity is "supplication", > already a mannered submission to power. Spontaneity is largely killed off, > though one has to see there are good and bad aspects of this. Lynch mobs > and chucked spears over comments made about mothers, prophets and various > bits of domestic thuggery are generally not good. Yet armed as a > gunslinging cop, I could have saved a lot of future victims - though as > with everything, summary justice has problems. I'd like to think I'd have > been really good at it, but also know nearly all of it turns to martial law > in support of corrupt war lords, bandits and governments. > > Nearly all literature is supplication in my view, submitted to the > violence of audiences fixated with trivia and tranced by propaganda. > Comedy is already supplication in the sense violence is already > suppressing its truth to 'I'm only joking'. This is before we consider > what makes money. Art has these problems - under my management we'll soon > have Tony whipping out cute cats, tearful children and green ladies. In > public, of course, I will have replaced him with a Tom Cruise look-a-like > wearing Perry Anderson dresses and press rumours he is screwing his way > through BBC weather women. Andrew and Allan will be given Eastern European > accents, berets and trained in tarot and guru-babble by Gabby, our dark > Germanic lady citing Ayn Rand and Gandhi in equal measure with panting to > be alone, or whatever Garbo said/ All of us will spend time at the feet of > one of Vam's sages and alternate and highly publicised drying out sessions > in the embrace of Molly's paradox sessions and RP's mountain retreat to get > back in touch with the eternal. We will pay tax in Rockall and register > various shell companies in the British Virgin Islands Bitcoin will turn > out to be worthless (down 50% this month) and everywhere it once was will > be found a signed copy of one of Tony's cats with a vanishing smile - the > smile vanishes off the face of creditors to our businesses, which I have > timed to go Chapter 11 on an annual basis and be taken over by our private > equity fund for a second screwing of the pooch. > > Oraganised (have you ever looked closely at management consultants?) > development gave up on Gabbsie's (our public term of endearment to suggest > gossip on the affection in which he hold the lady) "love trust" orientation > in favour of bent accounting long before I discovered it's best to be > holding the machine-gun in first contact situations with people you assume > will do you no harm. Now, who's going to arrange religious status for our > organisation to ensure fir consideration of criticism before our followers > make critics and endangered species? > > On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 6:25:41 AM UTC, facilitator wrote: >> >> Using the term "Hate speech" is the beginning of the "Final Solution". I >> am not sure where the term "Love thyself" came from but I am sure someone >> with a degree in psycho-ology came up with it. There is a quote however >> from someone in the first century: "Love is not easily offended". The onus >> is not on the one who excursus their right(s) but rather on the one with a >> nervous trigger finger. >> As an artist I would like too see the "select" decide for the masses what >> a "Hate Image" looks like. >> >> I can tell you with absolute certainty that a person with a strong faith >> is unmoved by derogatory inferences. >> >> -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
