Monday, March 18, 2024

 

Trum-an inspired Trum-p with a MAG-Forever. WHAT FOOLS!!

 

OPPENHEIMER, WHEN THE US STARTED TO LOSE THEIR  ETHICS

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/oppenheimer-when-the-us-started-to-lose-their-ethics-06d6bc88cb5a

 


Oppenheimer is an essential character in US history. He is the left-leaning Jew who provided the USA with the Atom Bomb that enabled the US to defeat Japan faster than the planned standard land and air attack by the Soviets and the Chinese Communists, officially endorsed in the Yalta Conference ( 4–11 February 1945) by Churchill, Truman, and Stalin. Truman did not have the atomic bomb yet and will only have it in July 1945. So, he bluffed and agreed with the Soviet plan because he had no alternative … yet. He reneged his agreement in July-August 1945, and he dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The victory over Germany was a joint effort. The victory over Japan was a self-centered and egotistic solitary procedure not even negotiated with the allies of the US. The United Kingdom might have been informed, maybe. But the USSR was not. The Americans were already and had been for nearly two centuries, on the “America First” and “Make America Great Forever” lines that we have known all along and directly since 1918.

 

And within 9 years Oppenheimer will be ostracized because he was leaning to the left and there were Communists around him. He submitted and disappeared in some sideline university job. He had nowhere to go, as opposed to Charlie Chaplin who went back to England. As a Jew, he could have gone to Israel, but that was not a real optimistic solution at the time. He might even have gone to the USSR with his communist wife. But he stayed put in the USA, in his closet-university-job. The film does not really explore this dilemma: hide away in the USA, go to the Jewish Israel, or go to the USSR. On one hand, it was his old depressive nature that came back. On the other hand, it would have been going back to his faith and his roots, even if it could have looked like treason. On the third hand, on yet another other hand, it would have been plain treason.

 

The special features on the second DVD do not correct this mystery and do not even envisage it, in real terms. Yet the bio-doc there insists tremendously on his left-leaning connections. If he had been black, he could have moved to Paris where Black American authors and musicians were vastly welcome. In France, he could have worked with the Joliot-Curies, though Frédéric Joliot-Curie was against working for nuclear weapons. He refused the demand from the French government. But The film and the special features lock Oppenheimer in a strange straitjacket of an obsessive psychotic prison, till the end of his life with only one single supporter named in the marginal side ditch of the story, John Fitzgerald Kennedy who voted against the ostracization of Oppenheimer in the US Senate. One vote out of – at the time – ninety-six.

 

I will regret that the special features did not insist enough on the basic, fundamental, and unethical treason of Joseph – like Stalin – McCarthy though in perfect line with the Monroe Doctrine of the Manifest Destiny of the USA to dominate forever the whole world. Imagine the frustration of all the MAGA supporters who will never see that, except if the USA starts the third world war with nuclear weapons. And try to survive after that.


 
No one can imagine what makes a film great in the West. It has to caress you on your umbilical egocentricism, and in this case the USA is the greatest entity in the cosmos, even if Truman is nothing but a nearly misspelled Trump.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

10 Pages

Comparative Politics,  *  Jewish Studies,  *  Nuclear Weapons,  *  Yalta,  *  Modernism and Posmodernism in Post World War Two North America

 



Saturday, March 16, 2024

 

From MAYDAY to MAY-1968 in Paris

 

THIRD UNDERGROUND HELL’S LOUNGE

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/third-underground-hells-lounge-b0ad457d6441

 


THE DESCENT TO HELL IN THREE STAGES – 2003-2015-2019

I brought together three films and series presented here both in English and French in anti-chronological order.

1-    The film 7500, 2019.

2-    The series Blindspot, 2015-2020.

3-    The film The Dreamers, 2003

If you take them in this backward order, you may understand that today’s world is not at all different from the one in 1968 when the Vietnam War was going on full blast, the Chinese Cultural Revolution was in full swing and the West per se was living its first full sexual revolution with the arrival of the baby-boomers to the full unquenchable desire to hormonally and fully enjoy life. Have some interesting reading.


FIRST STAGE – AMAZON STUDIOS – 7500 – 2019

There is little to say about such a film. It is just artificial entertainment that shows nothing and proves nothing. It is all stressing detail to keep the audience glued to the screen.


SECOND STAGE – BLINDSPOT – FULL SERIES – FIVE SEASONS – 2015-2020

A very long series for very little apart from stressed and stressful situations that always end well anyway, meaning leading to a worse situation in the next episode.


THIRD STAGE – BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI – THE DREAMERS – 2003

Paris Spring 1968. We all know what happened then in France. The victory of the unions, the defeat of the left, and the impossibility for the left to understand that any “events” of that sort will always lead to the victory of the right in the next elections, and today we have to update the data and say the victory of the extreme right. It might be slightly more complex, but basically, that’s what it is and when the left wins this social-minded left will become conservative within at the most two years and it might even turn reactionary within these two years, at times even less. They like power so much.


 It's interesting to bring Paris 1968 in lilne with modern hijacking of planes and a five-year long series on plotting in the USA against the US government, first of all FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, etc. Terrorism always starts within the borders of the country concerned. Homeland Conspirational Terrorism.

 


 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

10 Pages

Terrorism,  *  Conspiracy Theories, *  Cinema,  *  TV Series,  *  History, cinema, literature and theory in and around May 1968 in Paris.



Monday, March 11, 2024

 

What does Amazon have against divorced or absent mothers?

 

Too Tricky To Be True

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/too-tricky-to-be-true-efe733dc9d62

 


Amazon Prime Video and Blumhouse Productions love dysfunctioning mothers who, in the name of their love for their children, are ready to kill anyone only on their gut feelings that this anyone is guilty of who knows what apart from the devil.

 The film is tricky enough to lure and fool the audience, and the horror of the racist and dysfunctional situation can be believed till the end when the trick is revealed. Note this revelation implies that all daughters from divorced or motherless families are by definition, even by principle, liars.

 You might also find the father falling in an ice-cold river under a blizzard of some sort funny, and with his winter coat on, and then he goes on parading around outside, in the unheated car, and even in some kind of social situation without changing his freezing clothes. Like at the Oscars yesterday the costume design Oscar was delivered to a costume designer wearing no clothes at all, except a small cardboard sign where sexually necessary for the picture, meaning that costume designers are so badly treated and paid that they cannot even afford to buy underwear.

A little bit more about the context, schools, religion, Islam and girls, divorced parents, single Muslim male parent, etc. would have maybe given some depth to the story and made it less artificial.

 Amazon Prime Video is aiming at and targeting what can be popular among the audience that does not want to think too much but wants to be disturbed, shocked, and even horrified, provided it can end at the end of the film or series. This film is typical.

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

Islamic Studies,   *   Marriage and Divorce,   *   Liar Paradox,   *   Crime,   *    Single Parenthood



Monday, March 04, 2024

 

How can they be that biased ! ?

 


AMAZON PRIME VIDEO – THE BLACK BOX – 2020

 


Emotional, strong, even powerful, and yet intellectually perilous science fiction. Imagine you can extract from a brain (if it is only the brain and not the muscles and the bones too) what makes someone that very particular someone, hence their “mental” essence, and then you can keep it digitalized on a hard disk of some sort in the cloud if you want. Imagine you can transfer this digitalized mental essence to another body and this other body becomes the new vessel of the digitalized mental essence of the first individual.

 

First of all, it is impossible to do this as of today and probably for quite some time still. Second, it is unethical to use the body or a brain-dead person as a vessel to contain the mental essence of some other body plain dead at the time of the shift. How can you get the consent of the one or the other? Impossible in the film since the first person is dead, and the second person is brain-dead. Neither can say yes or no. Why not transfer that mental essence of this dead person number one into a chimpanzee, so that his mummy can play with it as a family pet? No problem of consent or disagreement. Animals have not reached the age of reason and cannot say yes or no to anything imposed onto them in labs or nature. Why not endow dogs with a – Christian of course – soul?

 

The worst part is that the doctor or scientist who does this transfer is the fact she is the mother of the first individual who just died, and she tries to keep her son alive in another body. That is egocentric, selfish, immoral, and what’s more sexist since it is the mother, hence a woman, who wants to commit this crime against science. It can only work in the film because of the virtual situation created by hypnosis and manipulated by Virtual Reality. Add some Artificial Intelligence and you will have the perfect suicidal solution to the overcrowding of the planet. All the guinea pigs will become killers or self-killers because they will never be able to accept the schizophrenia of their double reality and the alienation of both personalities forced to live together. Who could be that criminal in their minds to imagine such torture imposed on human beings?

 

Death is death, and it is a great chance for humanity that we are not eternal. Imagine the overpopulation we would have if Neolithic people had been able to survive till today. In fact, today’s world would never have been reached because humanity would have self-destroyed itself along the way.

 

Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU

 

VERSION FRANÇAISE

 

Une science-fiction émotionnelle, forte, voire puissante, et pourtant intellectuellement périlleuse. Imaginez que vous puissiez extraire d'un cerveau (s'il ne s'agit que du cerveau et non des muscles et des os) ce qui rend quelqu'un unique, donc son essence « mentale », et que vous puissiez ensuite la conserver numérisée sur un disque dur de quelque sorte que ce soit ou dans le nuage cosmique informatique si vous le souhaitez. Imaginez que vous puissiez transférer cette essence mentale numérisée dans un autre corps et que cet autre corps devienne le nouveau godet, coupe ou hanap, en un mot le vulgaire récipient de l'essence mentale numérisée du premier individu.

 

Tout d’abord, cela est impossible à l’heure actuelle et probablement encore pour longtemps. Deuxièmement, c’est contraire à l'éthique d'utiliser le corps ou une personne en état de mort cérébrale comme récipient pour contenir l'essence mentale d'un autre corps tout simplement mort au moment du changement. Comment obtenir le consentement de l’un ou de l’autre ? Impossible dans le film puisque la première personne est morte, et la deuxième personne est en mort cérébrale. Aucun des deux ne peut dire oui ou non. Pourquoi ne pas transférer l’essence mentale de ce mort numéro un dans un chimpanzé, afin que sa maman puisse jouer avec lui comme avec un animal de compagnie ? Aucun problème de consentement ou de désaccord. Les animaux n’ont pas atteint l’âge de raison et ne peuvent dire oui ou non à tout ce qui leur est imposé dans les laboratoires ou dans la nature. Il ne manquerait plus que les chiens aient une âme, naturellement chrétienne, cela va de soi.

 

Le pire, c'est que la doctoresse ou la scientifique qui effectue ce transfert est la mère du premier individu qui vient de mourir et qu'elle essaie de garder son fils en vie dans un autre corps. C’est égocentrique, égoïste, immoral et qui plus est sexiste puisque c’est la mère, donc une femme, qui veut commettre ce crime contre la science. Cela ne peut fonctionner dans le film qu’en raison de la situation virtuelle créée par l’hypnose et manipulée par la Réalité Virtuelle. Ajoutez un peu d’Intelligence Artificielle et vous obtiendrez la solution suicidaire parfaite à la surpopulation de la planète. Tous les cobayes deviendront des tueurs ou des auto-tueurs car ils ne pourront jamais accepter la schizophrénie de leur double réalité et l'aliénation des deux personnalités contraintes de vivre ensemble. Qui est à ce point mentalement criminel pour imaginer une telle torture à imposer à des êtres humains.

 

La mort est la mort, et c'est une grande chance pour l'humanité que nous ne soyons pas éternels. Imaginez la surpopulation que nous aurions si les peuples du Néolithique avaient pu survivre jusqu’à aujourd’hui. En fait, le monde d’aujourd’hui n’aurait jamais été atteint parce que l’humanité se serait auto-détruite en cours de route.

 

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 





Saturday, February 17, 2024

 

Just the proper amount of time

 

EXISTENTIAL DURATION MEASURED BY MAYAN TIME

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/existential-duration-measured-by-mayan-time-04ea9ffce53d

 


Duration is all that plants and animals experience. They last as long as either possible or necessary. When the phylogenic target of bringing in the next generation of life is fulfilled, the plant or the animal can die or wither away. Homo Sapiens, and probably most Hominins developed from experience the need to measure this duration, at first in days and nights, and then in clusters of days and nights. Then they can coordinate their observations and notice some cosmic items go through regular existential cycles, first of all, the sun rising or lowering in the sky with shortening or lengthening days and nights. Second, the moon and its phases are numbered as two, four, or three, but systematically waxing and waning. You can easily measure all that in solar days and that is the beginning of time: a human invention quantifying the duration of anything in observable regular elements.

 

From what we know the Mayas were among the most advanced people for such time-quantification and they developed all sorts of calendars to do this. But they were neither the first one nor the last one. They were not the best either, though they were very good. I will even say that all the lines of dots or check marks or squares or other geometric forms we can find in all the caves in the world in which Hominins and Homo Sapiens lived and that they decorated in many ways are the quantification of various phenomena, though we don’t always know which ones.

 


This book by Hunbatz Men concentrates on Mayan calendars but in modern language and modern terms, not necessarily in the real Mayan terms at the time, up to 3,000 years ago. It assumes the Mayas were aware of the leap years, though we do not seem to have any real reason to believe so. The author does not work on any serious lunar hypothesis, maybe a calendar. It vaguely mentions but does not explore the Venus cycles as Morning Star and as Evening Star. To work on the Pleiades, why not, yet one question does not concern such a long cycle but the simple working of the ritualistic 260-day Tzolk’in Calendar that is out of sync with the solar calendar, the 365-day Haab Calendar, and even more so if we consider the 360-day Haab Calendar, and how the ritual activities dictated by the Tzolk’in Calendar can be prescribed and predicted and performed when their Tzolk’in dates can fall at any time, in any season in the Haab Calendar. It is hard enough to coordinate the 12-and-a-half moon cycles over a solar calendar, but many civilizations are dealing with it and managing it with cyclical corrections.

 

That’s why it would have been good to give us some elements on this very same problem with the Tzolk’in calendar when we can compare with the difficult adaptation of the Muslim Lunar ritualistic calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The floating Ramadan is the result of this necessary adaptation. In other words, the present book is slightly short.


 

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

To explore the Maya capture of time is interesting but we have to go back to what it was at least one thousand years ago. It is too easy to use a completely corrected set of data that fit in the modern apprehension of time. But it is one flexible door to historical truth.

EXISTENTIAL DURATION MEASURED BY MAYAN TIME

Jacques Coulardeau

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

Maya Art,  *  Time Perception,  *  Cosmic Rays,  *  Calendars,  *  Pleiades



Tuesday, February 13, 2024

 

The kings of the road when there were no roads left

 

NO LOVE NO FUTURE NO PEACE

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/no-love-no-future-no-peace-951fcf5fa578

 


To bring together South Africa in the days of apartheid and from the point of view of the white Afrikaners with the tremendous career of Queen with Freddie Mercury and after his death without him shows how ahead of their times this band was when they started as a boys’ band and then when they matured into a full-fledged career.

 

Apartheid and racism bring segregation and discrimination which systematically reject differences. No future for those who do not have the skin color, the religion, the language, the sexuality, the musical affiliation, even as a simple audience, as the dominant, selected, elected, chosen entity that only has god and science over their heads. And their God has chosen these people to be his chosen people, and these people chosen by God believe what God has explained to them that science justifies their elected-ness, selected-ness or chosen-ness. They are the acme of the creation, and all others are just plain rejects that no one has the heart to destroy.


 

But be sure God will do it some day. Which god since there are many if not even plenty? Who cares. Each God will recognize his own supporters when they are all dead.

 

But then you may have no supporters at all, dear God or Gods. It does not really matter. We don’t need these supporters to eat, drink and survive. We have all we need in heaven and the sky. In fact, it was a mistake of ours to have created humanity. The planet would be so much better with none of the human parasites.

 

Meet the Madman Prophet, who is most the time mixed up with the other God Profit who is universal and derails every so many years, not so many as you may think every ten years or so. But with this God there is always a small population that manages to store away what they need to take over when the crisis has come to an end and the dead victims have been buried or cremated.

 

 

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

To bring together these two cultural works, one from the recent cinema about the past of South African, the other one the whole career of the mythic group Queen with the just as mythical Freddie Mercury

NO LOVE NO FUTURE NO PEACE

Jacques Coulardeau

2024 • Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

Segregation,  *  Race and Racism,  *  Apartheid,  *  Freedom of movement,  *  Ostracism





Monday, February 12, 2024

 

From Ambert to Comoro and back

 

Poetry Prison Comoro, Railings All Around

https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/poetry-prison-comoro-railings-all-around-eba06e7b1c93

 


An interesting experiment to bring a poetry workshop in a prison For us who have lived in the mythology of Johnny Cash and San Quentin, and all his songs and work about and in prisons there is nothing strange about that But what happens afterward? The inmates get some satisfaction in their work, writing poetry and singing, slamming, or whatever it may be, but what’s next after their prison term? No reason to reject the experiment but a follow-up action is necessary to know what these men – and it is only men – have become or will become when they get out of the railings, out of the cage. We are not all Johnny Cash, are we?


 

Since this operation was sponsored by Alliance Française, it would be nice to know what kind of follow-up work this Alliance Française is going to perform. The responsibility cannot be the poet’s. But it is interesting to be confirmed one more time that there are many ways for prison inmates to reform. One element is not taken into account. 98% of the population is Sunni Muslims. What is the impact of it on such an experiment? What does Islam bring to the experiment that would otherwise not be there? Étienne Russias should try to show us this dimension, since, as far as I know, he is a standard young man educated in the Christian traditions, maybe not the religion, but the traditions definitely like being christened, being buried religiously, being married religiously. How did he deal with a 98 percent Muslim group? How many Muslims were taking part, among the inmates and the workshop workers?

 

But that’s the beginning of the intelligent globalization we need, a globalization that is founded on differences and not some Westernized homogenization. However, the text produced by the various poetry animators and by the various inmates are not identified as such, so we do not know who is who and what is what. Only two names on the cover and hence two beneficiaries of royalties.


 

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

The question of prison reform is fascinating. This experiment of a French team supported by Alliance Française to help prisoners in Comoro, inmates reforming themselves with poetry and music, is surprising for a country that is 98% Sunni Muslim. What is the impact of it on the workshop, on the poetry produced by the inmates, is there any guidance to make them remain off religious questions (French laïcité), etc? It is all the same interesting to follow the experiment if there is any follow-up work with the inmates that took part.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

Music,  *  Poetry,  *  Prisons,  *  Prison and Corrections Reforms, Restorative Justice





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