amicus
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I miss…
“…a lot of things…”
I miss John Wayne and Audrey and Katherine Hepburn.
Watched NASA channel tonight, video of the recent STS Shuttle mission, repairing heat insulation with EVA’s, where they work outside the space station and the shuttle. They accomplish tasks by number, previously scripted by underwater rehearsals on space station replica’s, science fiction turned into fact, as so much is…the creative process…by which fiction creates science.
Went channel surfing, ran across, “The Electric Horseman”, with Robert Redford, whom I mentioned just recently in, “The Horse Whisperer”, and Jane Fonda, whom I also referred to…and had a thought…
Redford and Fonda are accomplished actors, you already know that, but…’actors’, pretending to be something they are not, depending on the ‘script’ they are to re-enact. Willie Nelson, the country singer was also in ‘Horseman’, and that too congealed.
SelenaK said something in a recent post about why artists are liberals, or liberals (the modern term, not the classic one), are artists.
The ‘liberal left’, which make up most of the intelligentsia, the writers, actors, teachers, performers, artists, et al, live in a ‘pretend’ world, in which they play parts according to scripts they either adopt or invent in their own minds.
We do need them.
I miss…Richard Attenborough and Trevor Howard. I miss Cary Grant and Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart; I miss a generation of actors and authors and performers of all sorts, that have come and gone.
I miss Neville Shute Norway and Hemingway, I miss the spirit of Manet and Monet, I miss the joy of Brubeck and Herbie Mann and Fats Waller and Benny Goodman and a hundred other musicians and performers, artists all, expressing things I felt but could not repeat or equal.
I could add the classics I enjoy, to name drop and impress, and I have before…but not now.
But the pretend world of the ‘artist’ is not the end all and be all of existence. It is rather the sauce when those of us who have forged a world, that we enjoy in our leisure.
So those of us on the right, the conservative, rational, logical ones, will continue to craft and build the world you live in, provide you with the technology that improves your life. We will find our pleasures in acquisitions and material things and then sit back and listen to you or watch you and smile, as you take us to places we cannot go by ourselves…
But know this. We can exist without you. You cannot exist without us.
***
Wind your way through that one.
Smiles…
Amicus…
“…a lot of things…”
I miss John Wayne and Audrey and Katherine Hepburn.
Watched NASA channel tonight, video of the recent STS Shuttle mission, repairing heat insulation with EVA’s, where they work outside the space station and the shuttle. They accomplish tasks by number, previously scripted by underwater rehearsals on space station replica’s, science fiction turned into fact, as so much is…the creative process…by which fiction creates science.
Went channel surfing, ran across, “The Electric Horseman”, with Robert Redford, whom I mentioned just recently in, “The Horse Whisperer”, and Jane Fonda, whom I also referred to…and had a thought…
Redford and Fonda are accomplished actors, you already know that, but…’actors’, pretending to be something they are not, depending on the ‘script’ they are to re-enact. Willie Nelson, the country singer was also in ‘Horseman’, and that too congealed.
SelenaK said something in a recent post about why artists are liberals, or liberals (the modern term, not the classic one), are artists.
The ‘liberal left’, which make up most of the intelligentsia, the writers, actors, teachers, performers, artists, et al, live in a ‘pretend’ world, in which they play parts according to scripts they either adopt or invent in their own minds.
We do need them.
I miss…Richard Attenborough and Trevor Howard. I miss Cary Grant and Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart; I miss a generation of actors and authors and performers of all sorts, that have come and gone.
I miss Neville Shute Norway and Hemingway, I miss the spirit of Manet and Monet, I miss the joy of Brubeck and Herbie Mann and Fats Waller and Benny Goodman and a hundred other musicians and performers, artists all, expressing things I felt but could not repeat or equal.
I could add the classics I enjoy, to name drop and impress, and I have before…but not now.
But the pretend world of the ‘artist’ is not the end all and be all of existence. It is rather the sauce when those of us who have forged a world, that we enjoy in our leisure.
So those of us on the right, the conservative, rational, logical ones, will continue to craft and build the world you live in, provide you with the technology that improves your life. We will find our pleasures in acquisitions and material things and then sit back and listen to you or watch you and smile, as you take us to places we cannot go by ourselves…
But know this. We can exist without you. You cannot exist without us.
***
Wind your way through that one.
Smiles…
Amicus…
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