Rauschenberg's Dogs.
There is a documentary made on Robert Rauschenberg in which he accompanies the director around a new house he has built on the coast. The house stands on four poles above the water. There is a staircase that leads from the shore to the front door.
Rauschenberg tells the director that he really likes his new house, but he can't live there because of his dogs. Every time there is a storm, the dogs bark at the waves and out of fear they jump into the water.
America has a similar approach to its war on Terror.
Last year a Brazilian lawyer who lives in Zurich, complained she was attacked by right wingers who tattooed the initials of their party onto her hip. After a few days it turned out she had invented the whole story.
I'm filing her under this category.
The Glorification of Fighting.
On YouTube there is an interview between David Letterman and Marat Safin (a Russian tennis player who had just won the Australian Open.)
Letterman asks the cause of Marat's victorious turnaround after a string of losses:
Marat - "Lack of Motivation."
Letterman - "So what has changed?"
- "Something changed in my attitude."
- "What?"
- "I started fighting."
The audience cheers.
The Glorification of Peace.
In 1947 The British Empire decided, because of economical problems and fear of civil war, to desert their colonies in the Middle East and India.
Over the next two decades they withdrew from their remaining colonies.
Is it possible that the glorification of Mahatma Ghandi's pacifism comes from an Imperialism which encourages the best way to fight Imperialism is by not fighting?
A Few Facts
When I'm silent there is no hate in me.
When I'm talking my opinions are revealed to me.
I discover who I hate and who I like.
I support my words and my opinions.
I hate people I understand
and people I'm not interested in.
I like people who think different from me
and support my opinions.
The Ridicule in Competition.
Being first is more important than being second.
Last place is a source of shame.
(Although there is a chance that the last place
didn't make any effort.)
Disrespecting Reality.
The news agencies feed off
messengers from all around the world
who send reports short as a twitter.
Each day the newspapers must fill a certain
amount of pages with words based on these reports.
And although the citizens of the world know all of this,
they still believe that reality is
the war in Iraq and the economical crisis!
Random Rules:
- If the poem is too long, make it longer.
If the painting is too colorful, add more color.
If the footage is amateurish, don't edit.
If you're late for an appointment, walk slower.
If the appointment is boring, stay.
- Never judge an artist by his work.
- Don't think while you're talking.
- Never try to express yourself through art.
That's why you have friends.
- Identifying with the pain of others
results from a political opinion.
Or the opposite.
- Whoever advises to accept suffering as part of life
is identifying with the pain of others.
- Don't be fooled by the future
its just the past backwards.
- True art can exist only by
by banishing the word Art.
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