Do people like Arnold Schonberg? Do you think that because of the amount of dissonance which is already present in his music, that it would adapt well to the fixed tuning of keyboard instruments?
Actually there *is* something wrong with that. The political center of gravity has shifted too far to the left in the past decade or so as it is. SJG, of course, would vehemently disagree, as for him Bernie Sanders is too conservative!
I do agree that SJG has excellent taste in music. As far as Schonberg is concerned, I suppose *some* people like his music, but I certainly don't.
Well no I don't agree that the political center of gravity has shifted too far to the Left. Rather I think the US has just gotten fatalistic. Here Jeremy Rifkin is a long term labor issues analyst. He chronicles the problem in the rise of the state lotteries.
The US was moving to the Left in the Mid-60's. But then their was a backlash. Some of this I think just has to do with this country's history of bad race relations, coming out of slavery, and then the extreme low wage system which operated in the South East.
So Richard Nixon debuted his Southern strategy in 1968, appealing to White racial prejudice. And then he had already been deploying conservative wedge issues, like abortion, to try and peel away historically Democratic voters.
So Mr. Deuce, as someone who obviously cares about civil liberties issues, I'd think you'd be one of the first to cry foul over the use of social wedge issues simply to promote concentration of wealth.
Hardt and Negri are contemporary theorists of the Left who I believe hold a great deal of promise:
Their uniforms aren't just a cute outfit. I believe there is a message, a feminist message, which underlies it. They want a good income and financial security, regardless of marital status, and they also live sane, sober and responsible lives. They want to be respected. And their country is one where there is precedent for this.
@dougster: FWIW, I also thought during the 60s, 70s, 90s, and 00s that the U.S. was shifting too far left, so my current age doesn't explain anything about my political views. If anything, my views have moved decidedly in a libertarian direction in this century, radicalized by our over-reaction to 9/11 and by the failed policies of both Bush and Obama.
The US was starting to move to the left. But then it stopped.
Europe kept on moving to the left, and what has resulted has been good.
In Europe the Right was discredited because it supported Hitler. In the US, the Right has not really been discredited.
One of the biggest disappointments of my life has been when my age peers decided to act as if Vietnam and Watergate never occurred, and support Ronald Reagan.
I am building an organization, and I do have a small team. But it is not primarily about politics, and its affairs must be kept private.
As far as local politics though, I am not just highly involved, I am embedded.
I grew up thinking that the idiotic world of my parents was going to vanish. I thought that because of the Sexual Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement, and The Environmental Movement that their world would vanish.
What I did not understand was that most people my age did not even understand what kinds of things were at stake, and so they were intent on becoming just like their parents and like my parents. And I did not understand that most people seek approval from their parents.
THE ROSICRUCIANS, The History and Mythology of an Occult Order, by Christopher McIntosh
and we have a forward by none other than Colin Wilson.
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So fundamentally, we are not speaking about a hoax, or even about 'wishful thinking', but about the profoundest problem of the human race. Again, Ward comes excitingly close to putting his finger on it when he says that a part of him disliked his mother for I making him live two lives' — the natural instinctive life of a child, and the superimposed and artificial life of 'the world'. He goes on to say that under LSD, it seemed to him that all children are ruined by adults, through being conditioned to the life of this world, so that they live two lives, one secretly, and one for adult approval. But then, 'ruin' is not inevitable. For example, all my own books, from The Outsider onward, have been about precisely this subject: the outsider's' rejection of 'the world', his desire to turn inward to a world of truth that he feets resides in his own depths. So plainly, I have not been entirely ruined. Ward himself remarks that he is surprised that he is not more wicked and madder than he is, considering his upbringing. Most of us do, in fact, survive, because that inner hunger is so intense.
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This has popped up on my feed with no other comments after mine, so I assume it's someone who I have on ignore is commenting. "liberalism is a mental disorder" states that guys who think they are righteous believe their ways are better than others, and that is SJG. It also states they are always looking for attention to draw upon themselves, which explains the more than 10,000 plus comments trolling TUSCL whic equates to an average of about 12 bullshit comments daily, all of which do not contribute to strip club topics. He has ZERO reviews which points to his troll like activities.
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SJG
Arnold Schönberg: Pélleas und Melisande op.5 (1903)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SvMeye…
Do people like Arnold Schonberg? Do you think that because of the amount of dissonance which is already present in his music, that it would adapt well to the fixed tuning of keyboard instruments?
SJG
I do agree that SJG has excellent taste in music. As far as Schonberg is concerned, I suppose *some* people like his music, but I certainly don't.
No, you've just gotten too old.
https://www.amazon.com/European-Dream-Eu…
The US was moving to the Left in the Mid-60's. But then their was a backlash. Some of this I think just has to do with this country's history of bad race relations, coming out of slavery, and then the extreme low wage system which operated in the South East.
So Richard Nixon debuted his Southern strategy in 1968, appealing to White racial prejudice. And then he had already been deploying conservative wedge issues, like abortion, to try and peel away historically Democratic voters.
https://www.amazon.com/Dog-Whistle-Polit…
And the current system of Casino Capitalism doesn't benefit anyone except speculators.
https://www.amazon.com/Politics-Culture-…
So Mr. Deuce, as someone who obviously cares about civil liberties issues, I'd think you'd be one of the first to cry foul over the use of social wedge issues simply to promote concentration of wealth.
Hardt and Negri are contemporary theorists of the Left who I believe hold a great deal of promise:
https://www.amazon.com/Multitude-War-Dem…
https://www.amazon.com/Commonwealth-Mich…
Some that look to me just right for continuing the 1910 revolution:
https://sites.google.com/site/sjgportal/…
Their uniforms aren't just a cute outfit. I believe there is a message, a feminist message, which underlies it. They want a good income and financial security, regardless of marital status, and they also live sane, sober and responsible lives. They want to be respected. And their country is one where there is precedent for this.
SJG
MC5- Kick Out The Jams
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XhQRFO4…
Europe kept on moving to the left, and what has resulted has been good.
In Europe the Right was discredited because it supported Hitler. In the US, the Right has not really been discredited.
One of the biggest disappointments of my life has been when my age peers decided to act as if Vietnam and Watergate never occurred, and support Ronald Reagan.
SJG
As far as local politics though, I am not just highly involved, I am embedded.
I grew up thinking that the idiotic world of my parents was going to vanish. I thought that because of the Sexual Revolution, the Civil Rights Movement, the Anti-War Movement, and The Environmental Movement that their world would vanish.
What I did not understand was that most people my age did not even understand what kinds of things were at stake, and so they were intent on becoming just like their parents and like my parents. And I did not understand that most people seek approval from their parents.
THE ROSICRUCIANS, The History and Mythology of an Occult Order, by Christopher McIntosh
www.skirret.com/archive/misc/misc-r/rosi…
and we have a forward by none other than Colin Wilson.
"
So fundamentally, we are not speaking about a hoax, or even about 'wishful thinking', but about the profoundest problem of the human race. Again, Ward comes excitingly close to putting his finger on it when he says that a part of him disliked his mother for I making him live two lives' — the natural instinctive life of a child, and the superimposed and artificial life of 'the world'. He goes on to say that under LSD, it seemed to him that all children are ruined by adults, through being conditioned to the life of this world, so that they live two lives, one secretly, and one for adult approval. But then, 'ruin' is not inevitable. For example, all my own books, from The Outsider onward, have been about precisely this subject: the outsider's' rejection of 'the world', his desire to turn inward to a world of truth that he feets resides in his own depths. So plainly, I have not been entirely ruined. Ward himself remarks that he is surprised that he is not more wicked and madder than he is, considering his upbringing. Most of us do, in fact, survive, because that inner hunger is so intense.
"
Isn't that cool!
SJG
CONCERT for GEORGE....Royal Albert Hall, 2002 (Full Concert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG5EdoxB…
Jim, you read stupid books.
SJG