civilisationReview

(A tiny portion of the following was placed as a comment on a Google forum featuring complains about Blogger's 'save template' function in the back-end not functioning since yesterday - and which explains why my favicon in my art site is not functioning.) Well, that's the thing about capitalism, the richer you allow the fat cats to get, the more they're going to own your means of expression, subsistence, aspiration, and motivation. S/he who owns the means of production, does not only own your means of subsistence, but owns all of the above as well. It is that which enables them to determine the evolution of the human persona. A company being completely answerable to you is dependent on your owning it. The same thing applies in the case of 'democratic' governments doesn't it. Why do people expect to 'own' their governments and not their companies eh? Your condition cannot but get worse until you degenerate enough to think it normal and natu...

When people ask me what sort of music I listen to, I might say, amongst others, “60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.” “Oh! Retro.”, they might respond knowingly. “No. ‘60s, ‘70s, and ‘80s.”, I correct them. And if they were to push it with an, “It’s the same thing isn’t it!” Then they’ve asked for it. Dictionary meanings and social meanings can be two different things. On the surface, ‘retro’ would refer to ‘the past’. There is no other value attributed to it. It is just ‘music that was produced in the past’. But when humanity fell for the religious belief that ‘we are living in modern’ times - excluding ed - this meant that quite a few words begin to mean something else as well. For instance, ‘elders’ became ‘old’. ‘Retro’ became ‘kitsch’, ‘passe’, ‘old’, and all of these words became interchangeable terms as well. That’s what happens when people are led to believe that we are living in ‘modern’ times; that we have reached the shores of enlightened times unlike the ‘medieval past’. So ...

"Plans for Stephen Fry to film part of a documentary series in Japan have been shelved after complaints about nuclear bomb jokes in his quiz show QI. The offending episode of QI was broadcast last month and featured a discussion about Tsutomu Yamaguchi - the only person known to have survived both bombings. Mr Yamaguchi was burnt in the Hiroshima explosion - only to travel by train to Nagasaki to be caught in the second attack three days later. During the programme Stephen Fry and two fellow comedians discussed Mr Yamaguchi's survival. Alan Davies suggested an A-bomb had landed on Mr Yamaguchi and "bounced off". And Stephen Fry expressed amazement that the Japanese trains were still running after the blast. The episode prompted a complaint to the BBC from the Japanese Embassy who accused the broadcaster of making light of the attacks. The BBC responded by apologising, acknowledging the sensitivity of the subject for Japanese viewers.” - bbc I’m just waiting for Fry ...