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Showing posts with label A matter of perspective. Show all posts
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20210703
For Fox Sake
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And in consequence, I am a little bored."
Men... They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. This is their one redeeming value. Are you looking for chickens?
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"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And in consequence, I am a little bored."
Men... They have guns, and they hunt. It is very disturbing. They also raise chickens. This is their one redeeming value. Are you looking for chickens?
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20200512
Have you ever thought how lovely a garden is when it is not yet thinking of men?
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It’s a quote from Antigone, not Sophocles's, Anouilh’s Antigone:
The graffiti on the facade of the Waikiki Business Plaza is from
Terry Gilliam’s (1995) 12 Monkeys.
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It’s a quote from Antigone, not Sophocles's, Anouilh’s Antigone:
The graffiti on the facade of the Waikiki Business Plaza is from
Terry Gilliam’s (1995) 12 Monkeys.
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20191025
What if Woody Allen had directed Watchmen?
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It never gets old.
How other directors might have filmed the comics classic.
Like many, I absolutely loved the ground-breaking comic book series and graphic novel! And, well, though it's no secret that Moore wanted nothing to do with the movie adaptation, I thought that Zack Snider's 2009 movie was not all that bad.
Alan Moore also made it pretty clear that he did not want anything to do with the 2019 Damon Lindelof's HBO TV series, either.
I don't know.
I have yet to see the HBO TV series—I don't have HBO 😐
But I am sure it must be very good... My next door neighbour ❤️ it...
And, at the time of this post, the fist episode in the series has garnered a whooping critic rating of 98% on the Tomatometer.
Is it wrong that, somehow, I haven't mustered any of the critics beseeming enthusiasm over Lindelof's Watchmen alternate history or any interest in any of the nonsensical (commercially?) generated wannabe political brouhaha that is surrounding the series?
Should I check my privileges?
Meanwhile, on this side of the multiverse, in a not so alternate history near you:
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It never gets old.
How other directors might have filmed the comics classic.
Like many, I absolutely loved the ground-breaking comic book series and graphic novel! And, well, though it's no secret that Moore wanted nothing to do with the movie adaptation, I thought that Zack Snider's 2009 movie was not all that bad.
Alan Moore also made it pretty clear that he did not want anything to do with the 2019 Damon Lindelof's HBO TV series, either.
I don't know.
I have yet to see the HBO TV series—I don't have HBO 😐
But I am sure it must be very good... My next door neighbour ❤️ it...
And, at the time of this post, the fist episode in the series has garnered a whooping critic rating of 98% on the Tomatometer.
Is it wrong that, somehow, I haven't mustered any of the critics beseeming enthusiasm over Lindelof's Watchmen alternate history or any interest in any of the nonsensical (commercially?) generated wannabe political brouhaha that is surrounding the series?
Should I check my privileges?
Meanwhile, on this side of the multiverse, in a not so alternate history near you:
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20180219
As it so happens...
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I ended up here just about the same way you did, you know?
I know, right? Easy for her to say.
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I ended up here just about the same way you did, you know?
I know, right? Easy for her to say.
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20171102
Squaring the Circle
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Or ought Samhain to be celebrated, as some traditions would have it, on the night that the Pleiades star cluster culminate, on November 21?
Me? I am more of a traditionalist…
Just waiting for the NEW MOON:
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Or ought Samhain to be celebrated, as some traditions would have it, on the night that the Pleiades star cluster culminate, on November 21?
Me? I am more of a traditionalist…
Just waiting for the NEW MOON:
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20161018
A Matter Of Perspective
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Reuters: Young Americans are so dissatisfied with the options in the US presidential election that nearly one in four would rather have a giant meteor destroy the Earth than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House.
The tongue-in-cheek question was intended to gauge young Americans’ level of unhappiness about their choices in the 8 November election, said Joshua Dyck, co-director of UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion which conducted the poll alongside Odyssey Millennials.
The choice alluded to the Twitter hashtag “#GiantMeteor2016”, a reference to an imaginary presidential candidate.
Some 53% of the 1,247 people aged 18 to 35 said they would prefer to see a meteor destroy the world than have Republican Trump in the Oval Office, with some 34% preferring planetary annihilation to seeing the Democratic former secretary of state win.
Some 39% said they would prefer that Barack Obama declare himself president for life than hand over power to Clinton or Trump, with 26% saying the nation would do better to select its next leader in a random lottery.
Some 23%, nearly one in four, preferred the giant meteor outcome to either Trump or Clinton.
The Giant Meteor 2016 movement, also known as Sweet Meteor O' Death or #SMOD16, began as a joke by those unhappy with their presidential choices.
The Twitter account now boasts more than 20,000 followers. You can even get a bumper sticker.
In other News:
- The Guardian (Dave Schilling) 10.02.2016:
Junk the system: why young Americans won’t do as they’re told this election
- The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald) 06.25.2016:
Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
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Reuters: Young Americans are so dissatisfied with the options in the US presidential election that nearly one in four would rather have a giant meteor destroy the Earth than see Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton in the White House.
The tongue-in-cheek question was intended to gauge young Americans’ level of unhappiness about their choices in the 8 November election, said Joshua Dyck, co-director of UMass Lowell’s Center for Public Opinion which conducted the poll alongside Odyssey Millennials.
The choice alluded to the Twitter hashtag “#GiantMeteor2016”, a reference to an imaginary presidential candidate.
Some 53% of the 1,247 people aged 18 to 35 said they would prefer to see a meteor destroy the world than have Republican Trump in the Oval Office, with some 34% preferring planetary annihilation to seeing the Democratic former secretary of state win.
Some 39% said they would prefer that Barack Obama declare himself president for life than hand over power to Clinton or Trump, with 26% saying the nation would do better to select its next leader in a random lottery.
Some 23%, nearly one in four, preferred the giant meteor outcome to either Trump or Clinton.
The Giant Meteor 2016 movement, also known as Sweet Meteor O' Death or #SMOD16, began as a joke by those unhappy with their presidential choices.
The Twitter account now boasts more than 20,000 followers. You can even get a bumper sticker.
In other News:
- The Guardian (Dave Schilling) 10.02.2016:
Junk the system: why young Americans won’t do as they’re told this election
- The Intercept (Glenn Greenwald) 06.25.2016:
Brexit Is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions
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20160623
20160314
Non ne luy coupés pas !
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There have been speculations as to the reasons for Chris Matthews’s relentless "shilling" for Hillary Clinton.
Moveon.org is running a petition demanding MSNBC's suspension of Chris Mathhews for the duration of the Democratic primaries.
I don't know.
While, certainly, there is no denying that there is potentially a case to be made for some possible conflict of interest, here:
I am inclined to give Chris Matthews the benefit of the doubt.
Sometimes, you just have to give stupidity credit where stupidity credit is due. I think Chris Matthews is just simply being the usual blowhard self he has always been.
In other words, Chris Matthews doesn’t need a motive to be a biased Beltway insider and a disingenuous political hack. That’s who he is. It’s his nature.
Does anyone even take him all that seriously?
No, no need to cut Chris Matthew's Hardball off, MSNBC.
There is very little left, there, worth to be taken seriously, or of any consequence to anyone.
Gabriel Bataille’s 1613 popular song about a satyr’s clumsy courtship of a nymph comes to mind:
Just bring us back someone of some courage who is not afraid to play ball where and when it actually matters.
Bring us back Keith Olbermann, MSNBC! What do you say?
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There have been speculations as to the reasons for Chris Matthews’s relentless "shilling" for Hillary Clinton.
Moveon.org is running a petition demanding MSNBC's suspension of Chris Mathhews for the duration of the Democratic primaries.
I don't know.
While, certainly, there is no denying that there is potentially a case to be made for some possible conflict of interest, here:
I am inclined to give Chris Matthews the benefit of the doubt.
Sometimes, you just have to give stupidity credit where stupidity credit is due. I think Chris Matthews is just simply being the usual blowhard self he has always been.
In other words, Chris Matthews doesn’t need a motive to be a biased Beltway insider and a disingenuous political hack. That’s who he is. It’s his nature.
Does anyone even take him all that seriously?
No, no need to cut Chris Matthew's Hardball off, MSNBC.
There is very little left, there, worth to be taken seriously, or of any consequence to anyone.
Gabriel Bataille’s 1613 popular song about a satyr’s clumsy courtship of a nymph comes to mind:
Just bring us back someone of some courage who is not afraid to play ball where and when it actually matters.
Bring us back Keith Olbermann, MSNBC! What do you say?
MORE >
20151118
20150730
Who is afraid of Press TV?
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Press TV (stylised PRESSTV) is a 24-hour English language news and documentary network, affiliated with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). IRIB is state-owned but independent of the Iranian government in its management; the IRIB is a legal TV and radio broadcaster inside Iran. Press TV is headquartered in Tehran, Iran, but has offices and bureaus around the world, inlcuding in London, Beirut, Damascus, Kabul, and the Gaza Strip. Press TV began broadcasting HDTV on the Hot Bird satellite cluster since 13 January, 2014. The network's slogan is "News Anew".
The BBC journalist Linda Pressly has described Press TV as pro-Palestinian, anti-sanctions against Iran, and... critical of Western foreign policy.
LOL
We can't have that now, can we?
In July 2013 Press TV and other Iranian channels were removed from several European and American satellites (amongst others those of Eutelsat and Intelsat), allegedly because of the Iran sanctions, even though a EU spokesman told the channel that these sanctions do not apply to media. In November 2012, the Hong Kong-based AsiaSat took Iranian channels off air in East Asia, and in October 2012 Eutelsat and Intelsat stopped broadcasting several Iranian satellite channels, though the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting managed to resume broadcasts after striking deals with smaller companies based in other countries.
Anyway, this is their website: http://www.presstv.ir/
And this is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's speech in Damascus, dated 7.26.2015, they recently published:
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/26/421935/Syria-PreAssad-ISIS-UN
Is Press TV's take on the world ethnocentric? Is it biased? Is Bashar al-Assad's account of the events in the region slanted?
Undoubtedly so.
Is it propaganda?
Of course, it is.
How much so?
It depends.
It would depend, I suppose, on what one's definition and understanding of terms such as "ethnocentrism," "bias," "slanted," and "propaganda" are. And to what degree one think such terms might apply to our own media, like, say, Fox News, CNN, NBC, or, God forbid, BBC America.
Call me a stickler for the credo of pluralism and world-mindedness, but it does seem to me that people in this country, in Europe and in the Americas, ought to be free to listen to any media news channel they wish and exert their own judgement, without a third party deciding for them what they ought to watch or not watch and banning what said party deems inappropriate. Because anything less, would be… Well, it would be anti-American, now, wouldn't it? And against everything the people who founded this great nation of ours fought for.
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Press TV (stylised PRESSTV) is a 24-hour English language news and documentary network, affiliated with Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB). IRIB is state-owned but independent of the Iranian government in its management; the IRIB is a legal TV and radio broadcaster inside Iran. Press TV is headquartered in Tehran, Iran, but has offices and bureaus around the world, inlcuding in London, Beirut, Damascus, Kabul, and the Gaza Strip. Press TV began broadcasting HDTV on the Hot Bird satellite cluster since 13 January, 2014. The network's slogan is "News Anew".
The BBC journalist Linda Pressly has described Press TV as pro-Palestinian, anti-sanctions against Iran, and... critical of Western foreign policy.
LOL
We can't have that now, can we?
In July 2013 Press TV and other Iranian channels were removed from several European and American satellites (amongst others those of Eutelsat and Intelsat), allegedly because of the Iran sanctions, even though a EU spokesman told the channel that these sanctions do not apply to media. In November 2012, the Hong Kong-based AsiaSat took Iranian channels off air in East Asia, and in October 2012 Eutelsat and Intelsat stopped broadcasting several Iranian satellite channels, though the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting managed to resume broadcasts after striking deals with smaller companies based in other countries.
Anyway, this is their website: http://www.presstv.ir/
And this is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's speech in Damascus, dated 7.26.2015, they recently published:
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/26/421935/Syria-PreAssad-ISIS-UN
Is Press TV's take on the world ethnocentric? Is it biased? Is Bashar al-Assad's account of the events in the region slanted?
Undoubtedly so.
Is it propaganda?
Of course, it is.
How much so?
It depends.
It would depend, I suppose, on what one's definition and understanding of terms such as "ethnocentrism," "bias," "slanted," and "propaganda" are. And to what degree one think such terms might apply to our own media, like, say, Fox News, CNN, NBC, or, God forbid, BBC America.
Call me a stickler for the credo of pluralism and world-mindedness, but it does seem to me that people in this country, in Europe and in the Americas, ought to be free to listen to any media news channel they wish and exert their own judgement, without a third party deciding for them what they ought to watch or not watch and banning what said party deems inappropriate. Because anything less, would be… Well, it would be anti-American, now, wouldn't it? And against everything the people who founded this great nation of ours fought for.
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20150114
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