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Tump is gutting the benefits for illegal immigrants and free riders on the american people, and directing the funds to construction of the wall, and in four more years people like you who hate our meritocracy will no longer be able to enter and undermine it.
To the surprise of no one, the #TrumpBudget consists of cuts on the backs of working-class Americans and those living in poverty. #SpoilerAlert: It won’t get past me and @HouseDemocrats. And unlike him, we keep our promises. #ForthePeople https://t.co/h14Kc8pfKu
Blame the left (Marxists >Cultural Marxists >Postmodernist >Feminists), who by design, with malice and intent, undermined the Western Heroic, and Monumental Civic Arts tradition, with Critique (undermining). Craftsmanship != Art. Civilizational ideals are required for (high) Art.
This artist demonstrates skill at photorealism, which is a technical craft, but does not produce “Art” that captures the period. Painting Art (rather than decoration) requires composition, monumental scale, civilizational narratives, in current aesthetic and cultural context.
Craftsmanship + Design(aesthetics) + Content Approaches but rarely achieves ‘art’.
There is very little difference if any between artistic, scientific, technological, and commercial innovation: you are always trying to innovate. In art, particularly a technology as old and mature as painting, requires you to innovate in content. And content is antithetical to the POMO-NEOLIBERAL program because it presents a value judgement about something bigger than the self.—“Why Aren’t Artists Recognized Today”–
Blame the left (Marxists >Cultural Marxists >Postmodernist >Feminists), who by design, with malice and intent, undermined the Western Heroic, and Monumental Civic Arts tradition, with Critique (undermining). Craftsmanship != Art. Civilizational ideals are required for (high) Art.
This artist demonstrates skill at photorealism, which is a technical craft, but does not produce “Art” that captures the period. Painting Art (rather than decoration) requires composition, monumental scale, civilizational narratives, in current aesthetic and cultural context.
Craftsmanship + Design(aesthetics) + Content Approaches but rarely achieves ‘art’.
There is very little difference if any between artistic, scientific, technological, and commercial innovation: you are always trying to innovate. In art, particularly a technology as old and mature as painting, requires you to innovate in content. And content is antithetical to the POMO-NEOLIBERAL program because it presents a value judgement about something bigger than the self.
—“The labor party stoped being the party of working class people and became the party of urban bohemians, pseudo intellectuals, and political and cultural liberals”— Hitchens
—“The average or ‘normie’ conservative is not that much different than the average liberal. It’s harder to define what polarizes people in the middle to one side or the other. They certainly do polarize, and it can happen in relation to very specific traits or sympathies, but nevertheless they still share many overlapping traits or sympathies. We probably tend to think of the NAXALTs as outliers who are at the end of a spectrum, but they are more likely to fall somewhere in the middle of a spectrum where things are most variable. Trait Z may be extremely common in the left wing, and far less common on the right, but the place where conservatives will exhibit it most is probably somewhere towards the middle.”—Jennifer Dean
Joyce Meier’s christianity – which is continuous training in positive psychological reinforcement of developing emotional agency despite living among classes of people who lack emotional and perhaps executive agency.
The church experience is the reason religion ‘works’ on us – not the content. The content is retained and put to use because of the church experience. the question is then what content we wish retained.
We middle and upper classes forget that forget that the lower middle, working, and laboring classes spend a disproportionate time surrounded by frustrated anxious people lacking emotional and often executive agency.
The more agency you have (the lower your emotional impulse) and the more ability you have( the lower the cost of your learning, problem solving, and self adapting) the easier it is for you to achieve what you want in the world – which (think about this) includes largely avoiding those people that lack emotional and executive agency but entering fields, organizations, and institutions that filter OUT those people that lack emotional and executive agency.
So for colosseum-christianity that uses PRESENT psychology rather than past mythology is what I mean by converting christianity into a folk religion lacking the institutional dogma.
So, if we look at this kind of educational christianity, and the stoic method – a more disciplined means of self authoring and both of which produce mindfulness – and once we have achieved that mindfulness, we seek the epicurean rather than hedonistic life for most; and then if we add the heroic narrative for those of us who have all the agency we can possibly use, then we have everything except debts to nature, our heroes, and ancestors such that we persist the gains of their burdens to provide for us.
(humor: The little old lady is a typical clown-world new england democrat and hates trump. So I get to hear a fist-shaking rant from all 5’2″ of her roly-poly octogenarian frame wrapped in some old-person print-pajamas with my coffee in the morning as she watches the news. To make it tolerable I wind her up with GSRRM, and tell her she’s just jealous that she doesn’t wake up with his arms around her in the morning, with his warm belly keeping her warm. Evokes shudders on a regular basis. )
(For newbs, despite the desire to return to europe, I take care of my frail elderly mother, who is ‘all there’ but otherwise falling apart at the seams and can barely walk across the room even on continuous oxygen. The fact that she’s ‘all there’ and a self righteous democrat means she’s an entertaining toy to wind up and mess with. And it’s not that she doesn’t understand the game. She does. And she loves it. …. Humans are the most entertaining pets. 😉 )
But we can predict conflict whenever groups are in proximity with one another competing for status, opportunity, and political power. https://twitter.com/RealYeyoZa/status/1224273617833353217
