Elephant Safari

WE ARE OUR ART

Aztec, Inca, Maya art and civilization followed along the same lines of soft art, loose; if stone carved and gold cast can be loose.

As they progressed and as organization became more central, the art got more iconic and angular. Their production in agriculture got critical, yet a disregard for ecology and good crop management reduced harvests.

Political leaders being who they are, they demanded more from the resources without understanding the technology or science that could have sustained the population and economy. Being that religion and military force are the infrastructure of human coercion, they practiced politics a lot lide the lot we see today: corruptly. Ignorantly.

Drinking the Kool Aide only works a short time, then people quit the habit, sip water, and stop working for the idle.

Notice how art is both controller and liberator: static icons like logos and state flags must be infused with emotional meaning through indoctrination; yet life art has intrinsic image and emotion recognized without authoritarian permission.

Authority needs to control art so that its perverted icons replace the meanings of life itself. The point being that normal human needs get redirected in shortsighted, non-sustainable directions.

Instead of using science to enhance sustainability, and art to enhance quality of sustainable infrastructure, the headmen and shamen autocrats will pervert art to devolve the lessons of life and science in order to cement oligarchy and empire.

Science and art are at a balance when we have peace and education, where good business and public practices contribute to a balance of quality as well as quantity of life.

Art and Science are questions of proportion. Technology and public institutions are practical mirrors of misery or happiness, so lets use our arts and sciences to avoid the misery of out-of-balance empire.

Don't drink the Kool Aide. Learn both art and science, then elect representatives who are more balanced.

Anyone who diverts resources of common good to the exploitation of emotion and iconic action is a warlord.

Politicians and Preachers need us to remind them of what is important, and it ain't killing other people to get their stuff.

The Aztecs and Mayas also controled their populations through fear of outside threats. They built a lot of angular icons, too.

-30-bobby

Elephant Safari

ToDay is MEMORIAL DAY...SOME OF OUR WARW WEREN'T MEMORABLE

WWI was hard-fought, yet it started out of ignoble treaty-ship. One ally aut0matically attacked the enemy of its friend. Stupid misery begat by stupid diplomacy.

The Prohibition, the Great Crash, the Depression. The only Greatness they bestowed was the Great Profit in the industries run by the oligarchic playbook. Misery, Incorporated.

FACISM. BURN DOWN OR BLOW UP A BUILDING OR TWO AND BLAME IT ON THE TARRORRRISTS. DO WE WONDER IF HITLER SPOKE IN A HOKEY DYSLEXIC GERMAN?

DAS NUKENCRENISPLATZEN. "NUKULAR". Nah. If g b could talk like Hitler, we'd be in trouble.

Eich ben lookenupyertelefonzen; that would be too much. It is too much.

Just as the (d)Depression was caused by the-lack-of-trade caused by the imposition-of-vindictictive-retalliation-by-the-allies, the 2dWW was caused by unemployment, isolation, and, yes, lack-o-trade.

War is shorthand for human ignorance and the resulting tendency to follow politicians who instructs diplomats.

The politician who cuts deals, who senses the angle of the wind, then redeals.

Another word for politician is Warlord. Period.

The last war worth the name was WWII. Everything else is copycat exploitation for profit.

If we examine WWII under a magnifying prism, you might see profit at the sinkhole bottom line, too. But at least it was a war where we may not have attacked first.

Korea and the Cold War: hysterical reaction to a real threat: but a threat that was created because DIP-low-mats and their failures.

Viet Nam, since 1935, with maybe a break for the WWII, was unnecesary: said to be for democracy and tungsten. Gulf War I and Iraq now are for pure cash and oil. Wars are for keeping our bad habits up, whereas the citizens might come to good sense if left at peace for a generation. Haiti, Granada, Panama, and a dozen others suffer for our lack of respect for demacratic principals. Puerto Rico, Nicaragua; El Salvador, Honduras, Cuba; Chile, Columbia: we intervene and interfere to advance the industry of the day, the myths of our own democratic abilities, pandered to enable our plundering of natural rescources and prostitution of human rights.

It is with some shame that we honor indvidual greatness in wars. A memorial to those who suffered for what is empire seams to disohnor thier loss. It is to say that we are proud of you for dying due to our lack of ability to impeach the war industry.

War is an industry as solid as toothpaste, and marketed the same. The sugar flavored product that erradicates decay caused by sugar.
Behave as dictator to elimenate the dictator, then to become the dictator. I'm not saying we shouldn't brush our own teeth; just don't kill to force others to buy our brand of toothpaste.

Memorialize the good in a cause that is bad.

In other words, we allow politicians to exploit the bravery of others in order to create more honored exploitees.

When I see the CEO of General Motors quit his job and join the army as an infantryman, I might believe the rationale for "bringing democracy to Nextambull".

It would be better if we got a holliday for the heroes of Peace, except that the War industry recognizes none. We do get off on days that commemorate mass consumption. What if our greatest products were Art, Science, Peace and Sanitation? Literacy and Education?

-30-bobby

Elephant Safari

THE SECRET IS THE BEAST AND BEAUTY ARE THE SAME

That is the secret of the whole person, that a complete circle is swirls of opposites.

-30-bobby

QUARANTINE THEM GOVERNMENT VIRUSES

UNDER HUMANITARIAN CONDITIONS, MOST GOVERNMENTS WOULD BE PUT IN QUARANTINE

We don't need to look past our own various governments to find humanitarian criminals.

The Hitlers and Husseins are pikers: flash-in-the-pan amateurs, compared to the career scociopathic elected and appointed despots we hire to abuse ourselves. We even allow them to keep secrets of how they mistreat civilian victims. We allow them to be incompetent and then to hide that corruption by creating chronic crisis conditions, terrors only they can save us from after having thrust them upon us.

Tony Blair and Vicente Fox have allied with w bush to exert brutalities on their own constituants and the innocent citizens of a hundred soverign countries.

We are so used to it, it seems normal. Lies are normal, police killing and armies killing civilians are normal jobs carried out by nice guys in suits and ties who would rather us not notice what their jobs do to us.

We believe it is normal to count our guys who die in Iraq, but not the Iraqi civilians: Israelis, but not Palistinians: we are deluded.

We are the problem, because we listen to sociopathic diplomats and politicians and we are really the parent, the employer, the head honcho, boss. We let them run our affairs because we don't listen to lies, yet believe the lies.

We are bad employers. Even if we deserve what we get, we don't deserve this.

Don't forget to vote, and pay attention before and afterwards.

-30-bobby

Elephant Safari

I WASN'T BRAGGING, YET IT APPEARS SO

When I do something good, I like to get credit. The usual method is to wait for others to applaud, but we should live so long.

The cheesy way is to pat yourself on the back, but it leaves fingerprints, looks like bragging.

Sometimes I include others in my boast, and it might offend.

To those, I appoligize.

-30-bobby

Elephant Safari

I'M NOT BRAGGING IF IT IS TRUE

Rice University has a Continuing Education program where people sign up for classes, like Life Drawing, and they need models for such classes. The teacher was refered to me to arrange for an intense week of models, book-ended and backed up by me.

I got the first five-hour set on Sunday, and the last the next Saturday. Sunday was a good lady named Jill Ann Jack, I swear, and she had Tuesday, too. Wednesday was supposed to be Thuy Linh, who double-booked and I had to back her up. They liked me fine, then on Thursday, a guy named Jon made them happy.

Now, the whole time I had lobbied for a double model set, which the CE honchos did not have in the budget. So, since I had modeled with a nice lady from Chicago at the Painted Tuesdays sessions, once, and since we (she) had literally blown them out of the water, I got her to agree to come in for at least the first part of Saturday, hoping the class would bite and chip in to pay her fee. The teacher was nervous, but OK. We blew them away.

This lady was from India, origionally; dark and slight and beautiful and intelligent. One-third my age. We both model flat out, no restraint. They loved it so much that at the lunch break they took up a $10 each contribution to pay for her day. The teacher was surprised when he returned.

We were old, young; light, dark; boy, girl; beauty and beast; we were yeng-yang, and posed accordingly.

No one had ever seen the like.

Me, either.

Our last pose, for example, was facing dual fetal poses.

She will be at the Artery 8-9 on the 17th.

So will a lot of other artists.