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Tag Archives: George Orwell
utopia: realms of Nowhere
Not satisfied. Not content with the world as it exists, people have always tried to imagine the world as it might become.Utopia has always been on the map of the imagination and every age, with some notable exceptions has created … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Diogenes, Diogens and Plato, George Orwell, Hans Holbein, Hieronymous Bosch, Jan Bruegel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Plato Republic, Raphael School of Athens, Sir Thomas More
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walking on old stones: no stone unturned
Ziononism is racism. Not really. If anything its a form of self-hatred that denies any element of the spiritual within the individual. Like the art critic Clement Greenberg, who acknowledged his own Jewish self hatred and said the spiritual in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Avi Farchan, Charles Darwin, Christopher Hitchens, Clement Greenberg, David Ben Gurion, George Orwell, gush katif expulsion, John Stuart Mill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Slavoj Zizek, Yamit expulsion, Zionism and the holocaust
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paradise found lost and imagined
In search of paradise. In our shrinking globe there are not too many paradise’s that still endure. At the Red Fort in Delhi, one can still see decorative Persian script of the seventeenth-century over the arches illuminating the words, ” … Continue reading
distrusting the utopian prophets
Its an odd way to define oneself: a tory anarchist. Maybe for max Beerbohm it was a reaction to the times; a refuge in this tidal wave of elitist white racist socialism that was so popularized by the likes of … Continue reading
wild safari park
and so it is. A human game park. How many “things” , animals, are the hunters allowed to bag. The famous line of “cockroaches in a bottle” has now gone green and ecological. PC Green occupation.The bugs have to be … Continue reading
reptiles: jurassic spark
The individual as mistake. Imperfection. An enraged Yahweh dissatisfied with the result, torn between creating in his image and getting anxious as they approached? Maybe better to kick the proverbial can of evolution down the road and let succeeding generations … Continue reading
smelly little orthodoxies
Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco
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automatic pilot
Our lives are literally, virtually, based on software. Financial markets are regulated by software. Government is run on software. The military is dependent on software. Financial indexing is dominated by four companies, and despite a bit of fudging, it is … Continue reading
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