But no one did. 20+ comments in people discussed the morality or bad sense or libertarian perspectives. Someone even said I’m thinking about doing that. No one said what I thought was obvious. Have you thought of it? Is it obvious to you?
If we were animals...
People would gaze at their screens and weep at images of our once vibrant and diverse eco system now barren.
Pop stars would sing sad ballads while the image of glassy, longing, memory filled eyes gazed back,
A number rolling across our touch starved bodies
Promising the chance to care just a phone call
And a few dollars a month away.
Children would draw us as stick figures, sad eyed and alone after
Watching puppets pull empathy out of their bellies like pumpkin pulp
Pinned proudly to refrigerators, parents gazing down with mouths like jack-lanterns
More on Meyerhold and the tragic lure of promised utopia that too many fall for. As artists we must remind each other of these facts even if those who teach and guide or inspire us don’t. We owe it to those who came before us. And to those who have tried.
Some quotes from another article and commentary. allarts.org/2020/02/peter-… “Theatre is a very dangerous weapon,” once wrote Russian playwright Vsevolod Meyerhold. This phrase, penned by the director in the 1920s, reverberates through Peter Brook’s recent play, “Why?,”...
“Why did Meyerhold once declare the theatre a “dangerous weapon”? What was so dangerous about it? The twentieth century provides numerous examples of the most gifted artists being seduced by regimes that promised heaven on earth...
I think the reaction and judgement some people receive on social media is fascinating because I remember a time when the puritan cultural norm was what was rejected by online interactions. I think perhaps two things are why “polite” or “intellectual” society are so often angered
1. Sincerity and being genuine are falsely elevated as something to strive to; from influencers and politicians to intellectual discourse, art and journalism. Faux sincerity is the actual aim. I assume it’s exhausting. No wonder clowning or real confidence upsets so many.
2. Conformity pretends to be non conformity. What was once seen as the mark of true greatness or the potential for it; authentic rejection of conforming to the crowd inventiveness, outwardly, creatively or intellectually is now seen as, well, problematic. “How dare they?”
Who remembers the original rules of the Internet? Ya know the ones that came before and after rule 34 prior to 4chan?
I’ve searched for them, but perhaps it’s rather appropriate that they seem to be no where to be found. “Don’t take anything too seriously, nothing is real.”
Nature is made better by no mean
But nature makes that mean; so over that art
Which you say adds to Nature, is an art
That nature makes;.....this is an art
Which does mend nature, change it rathe, but
The art itself is nature. #WintersTale#NatureIsAnArt
I’ve been thinking about the play Winter’s Tale quite a but today. Seeing more and more people standing up for their livelihoods, their character and their families combined with the first snow fall may be why. Whatever reason it led me to stumbling over this woman’s...
...performance of one of my favorite moments in Shakespeare. Act 3 scene 2 Hermione taken out of a cell brought in front of her own royal court to argue in her own defense. She begins, as like one foot in front of the other, with one syllable at a time...
‘Since what I am to say must be but that
Which contradicts my accusation and
The testimony on my part no other
But what comes from myself, it shall scarce boot me
To say 'not guilty:' mine integrity
Being counted falsehood, shall, as I express it,
Be so received. But thus: ‘