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Blythe was great! too much!
Don't forget about her short position on SLV.
She is a shark lurking in the shallow water.
Skilfully done, WB7.
May you always enter the visual combat arena so "armed"...
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6040/5883920419_6d3653db76.jpg
Great stuff Will ... your visual heretics (can I call your work that?)
Perhaps it is just me, but what you do seems to complement what CD does in written form.
His latest "The Long Conversation" suggests to me that you might like to do your 'thing' on organized religion.
Further down "blindman" made a comment or six about the Jesus religion ... prefaced by "I shouldn't say this, but ..."
And I added my own possible subjection to "The Spanish Inquisition", whom I have come to expect even lurking in ZH.
Monty Python were too kind towards christianism and all religions (by implication).
I wish I could do a visual collage of all the psychotic founders (mythical or actual) of religions, including ostensibly secular ones in politics and economics, for instance; but I lack the skill.
BTW, you think you lack the skill. But you don't.
He and I operate on similar wave lengths. Our output often intersects in surprising but unintentional ways. Sometimes we exchange messages all day. Other times we hardly communicate for days at a time.
I have been exposed to all of the major religions one way or another. I have no problem with religion per se. It is a form of human affinity.
But one of my favorite books is The True Believer, which addresses religious fanaticism in depth. We have seen that religion is a medium for fanatical control of societies. At this time I believe the Internet has thrown organized religion temporarily off kilter because people are able to act collectively without the infrastructure of religion. But the danger is always there.
I don't parody faith too often, because I feel it is unnecessarily polarizing.
I was raised as a Christian, but consider myself a student of zen.
Thanks WB for all the laughs, lately there hasn't been a lot to laugh about. The truth is hard and real and always under attack. Since the beginning religion has been used as a tool of fanatical control freaks. Their strategy is to take a part of the truth and mix it with a lie in order to gain illigitimate power. However this does not negate the fact there is a truth, but only should reinforce the idea that there is a truth. One must seek to seperate the two, then one sees clearly. A truth and a lie are necessarily polarizing. Many a good man that has proclaimed truth and exposed the lie has paid the ultimate cost, for these control freaks play to keep.
It is the tragedy of the red pill.
Hey, that warning wasn't on the label.
totally off topic of your conversation, but I love your mad art skillz.
I had an idea I thought you might convert into an image. The blackout of the media coverage of "Occupy Wall Street" could be condensed into an easy to understand image by printing a milk carton with a picture of Anderson Cooper on it - with the usual missing persons verbage - last seen covering Lady Gaga's dry cleaning mishap - was wearing a tight black t-shirt and a microphone.
Maybe a series of milk cartons featuring all the different news anchors and Mayor Bloomberg and other public figures.
Let me know if you'd like some help writing the text, I have a knack for satire.
Tnx for the idea. I gotta see wha kind of milk carton images there are out here.
WB7. it's natural for people to blame others for the mess we are in. But at some point we need to understand how our own sloth has been a contributing factor. I have been weaning myself off of TV as much as possible. Once you understand there is a very real agenda to dumb you up it all becomes very clear.
Are we living in an illusion?
I hate TV. The only TV I watch is movies and occasionally the HK English news.
It is empowering to read the works available on propaganda and verbal manipulation and then look critically at the constant barrage of information we are subjected to.
TV really is just massive propaganda - I was lucky enough to be raised without much TV until I was in my teens, so I know the difference between the real world and the fictious one portrayed on television.
So many are raised today immersed in TV since birth that they accept it without reservation. Its not just the commercials and public service spots that are propaganda, the entire lifestyle and the entire way of thinking or not thinking are false and are meant to ensure maximum consumption with minimum thought.
Television as it is used today is more corrosive to society than all the illicit drugs, licit drugs including alcohol combined. Couple it with a deliberately illiterate school system that destroys curiousity and implants instead unquestioning obedience and we have a reicpe for societal suicide.
Some people think television is merely harmless entertainment and that is exactly what those who own the air waves want to be beleived. Isn't it amazing how that message has permeated our culture to the point that people pay exorbitant amounts of money for hardware to receive their mindwashing programs?
I recommend listening to Alan Watts talk about TV and consumerism.
Before the advent of the Internet, ones dislike for TV was almost looked upon as a form of psychotic withdrawal. Now with so many people online, they can't say TV is the public norm.
Sometimes others really are to blame, e.g. ordinary Libyans - or even Qadafi - are wholly innocent of having their entire way of life destroyed by the six month war by Wahington/NATO.
Assuming that you live in the US (I am in Australia), why do you blame yourself for what was in the making, long before you were born?
Billy Joel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR-A4QFHZBA
Please drop your guilt, no one is ultimately to blame; but if you have to blame something, then blame a god which/who failed to give our species a reliable "instruction manual" (for living life) such as what you expect from a car, or washing machine manufacturer.
If you believe in a god, then sue it/him/her for failing to provide any clear instructions.
The Holy Bible, perhaps you have heard of it?
Revelations:
Chapter 6
Verse 8
Nuff said...
The paradox of technology is the further it advances the dumber we become. This was the lost message of the Unabomber who lost a few screws on the way.
I know this will sound like paranoid conspiracy madness to most who don't know better, but the Unabomber was actually involved in a CIA personality modification experiment in college. When he discovered he was being manipulated by the system, he went ballistic, with probably very good reason.
We can criticize his techniques, but he was a cia lab rat and they probably learned a lot about how to and how not to control subjects.
With the help of a summer school course for English, he completed his high school education when he was 15 years old. He was encouraged to apply to Harvard University, and was subsequently accepted as a student beginning in 1958 at the age of 16. While at Harvard, Kaczynski was taught by famed logician Willard Van Orman Quine, scoring at the top of Quine's class with a 98.9% final grade.
He also participated in a multiple-year personality study conducted by Dr. Henry Murray, an expert on stress interviews.[10]
Students in Murray's study were told they would be debating personal philosophy with a fellow student.[11] Instead they were subjected to a "purposely brutalizing psychological experiment"[11] stress test, which was an extremely stressful, personal, and prolonged psychological attack. During the test, students were taken into a room, strapped into a chair and connected to electrodes that monitored their physiological reactions, while facing bright lights and a two-way mirror. Each student had previously written an essay detailing their personal beliefs and aspirations: the essays were turned over to an anonymous attorney, who would enter the room and individually belittle each strapped-down student based in part on the disclosures they had made. This was filmed, and students' expressions of impotent rage were played back to them several times later in the study. According to author Alston Chase, Kaczynski's records from that period suggest he was emotionally stable when the study began. Kaczynski's lawyers attributed some of his emotional instability and dislike of mind control to his participation in this study.[11][12] Indeed, some have suggested that this experience may have been instrumental in Kaczynski's future actions.[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski
also see
http://www.archive.org/details/dkazinmkult
Maybe we trade in one kind of ignorance for another.
It cannot be a bad thing that finally, after 100 years, the paper money lie has been blown to smithereens.
There are smithereens everywhere now!
The unwinding of that meme might be cataclysmic (or maybe it will pass with a yawn, but I doubt it).
The main question is, what will the next Big Lie be? The internet was the Black Swan for command & control through institutionalized ignorance and fear. The old tricks won't work when people can talk back, and attempts to silence people will backfire. So the next big meme, if we are all to be kept on the farm and voluntarily punishing nonconformists, is going to have to be an order of magnitude more sophisticated.
And yes, the paradox is that the benefits of any technology result in the atrophy of the ability to do whatever it used to take to do without it. But the point should not be lost that technology gives new ability for those who are willing and capable of exploiting its advantages. That ought to result in evolution towards freedom and prosperity, because command-and-controllers are useless at technology. If they lose their ability to fool people and manipulate them, they are toast. We'll keep hacking at their roots.
Thanks for your inspirational work. Your unique talent is priceless.
We have to pay close attention to wet computing. The melding of computers with brains. Who knows what will happen. But we can guess.
Reboots could be a bitch...
2Big2Tolerate > TBTF. Brilliant stuff, Will.
A relative of Too Dumb To Survive
WB
Great stuff but what is GPap doing hovering over Battersea power station?? He aint going to get any help here!! Or do our banks hold more "Greeks" than they are letting on to...
Grab a slingshot
George Carlin one of the brilliant minds of our time. Real world scary stuff. Really hits home to alot of us ZH'ers. Thanks for VISUAL COMBAT DAILY.
Eurvana, awesome!
Hey do you take requests?
Shoot
Just rambling... but maybe something with cockroaches, scattering everywhere when the light is shown on them.
The light could be flashlight, or some other bright source of light/truth. Maybe the flashlight has a ZH logo on it, or maybe the light is the protesters somehow... Something to symbolize the people waking up and the cockroaches scattering. Could either be gritty or have a positive/hopeful message for the future.
But would definitely involve cockroaches.
These days are progressing slowly...end of summer...a semi dream state filled with different visions reinforced with the dreams you remember when you wake up at night.
I would like to direct you to Jesse´s Cafe Americaine. As of lately - this feeling - seems to have gotten to him as well.His latest post reflects on the European sentiment with an astute glance back at Weimar and a piece on Brecht´s Drei Groschen Opera.You know Mackie der Messer.Not the tarted up 60`s jazz version but the real deal...Schul Meier war Tot gefunden am Strand...
Maybe a look at this will set your creative juices flowing even more?
Cheers mate
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
The power goes direct to my head
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
The future ain?t what is should have been
Seen better times
But she always shines
Battersea
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
Fell in love with what looks like a flying V
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
Status Quo versus danger zone
Seen better times
But she always shines
Battersea
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
Battersea Odyssey
SUPER FURRY ANIMALS
syd stories on fallon
Wow. Gollum in a suit & tie. And glasses.
Hats off to you sir!
The "shining" fits our monetary system perfectly. RIP Scatman
Really out did yourself...bravo Banzai!!!
Overload!!!!!! I will never be able to look at Angela's picture without seeing her undressed. Note to myself. Do not look at WilliamBonzai posts before going to bed at night....
...now that's some wicked visual, banzai...me like...reminds me of reality.
You have outdone yourself again, WB.
Insight, recognition, and hilartity merge.
Your audience may be somewhat narrow, but boy, is it appreciative!
Actually, I think of my audience as "broad" minded ;-)
Seriously, the Wall Street protest has expanded the young audience. I am getting lots of requests for permission to republish including from the live feed people down there.
One thing you can be sure of, I am not gonna standby and quietly watch those kids get bullied by the bankers and their hooligans.
Now it would be a great treat to see your art on some posters captured on RT or PressTV.
William, I hope you are as famous as Warhol one day. And yes, I know that is not your intention. :-)
Tnx, hearing someone say that is a reward in itself.
ACTION OF THE PEOPLE: stop using the businesses of our representatives and senators, let them fell the loss that we feel.
bill you have no idea how ahead you are by using cubric to address politics my friend. the shinning apollo11
if youre in marketing bill hicks yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
Heeeeeeere's BARRY! Careful with that axe Barry.
+1 Eugene
i shouldn't say this but...
so this guy at work says to me
"you know, when jesus comes back this
time he is coming back with a sword.
it is in the bible."
so i said "i've read some bible and it
just doesn't fit man, is he gonna come
back with nukes? i could carry a sword.
what good would that do me? if you translate
the idea to today he would have nukes, no?"
.
so he says " well, it isn't going to be peace and all,
pretty, you know."
so i say " well, it is never pretty when people have to
forgo all their bullshit to accept the truth, is it?"
.
so he says " this time he is coming with power and hordes of angels,
people won't recognize him and will be left behind."
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" how could you not recognize that? " i asked .
so what is the point?
people don't understand symbols, stories, myths or words,
or language or principles or physics or time or themselves
or perception or markets or relationships or nature or nurture
or ecology or breathing or anything. they just relate everything
to their idea of themselves; not to their actual self but to their
idea of themselves as they figure into their social context, whatever
that may be, however that may present itself at any given moment.
all of it relates, virtually, to a story of culture which is invariably
a lie, myth, and generally full of misery and ..... oh joy ! but...
sometimes it is different. things do change and change is really the
only constant.
The Quickening
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHZkUiRP30
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word jazz, coming up.
thank you w.b.!