Monday, March 23, 2020
Take a trip in the globalized world
Kiran Bhat, the Globetrotter
The
world is a triad and one third is being destroyed, a second third is being
over-exploited and the top third is not even in charge of anything. This world
is berserk and going to pot. Let one epidemic come and the whole shebang will
just explode, like any bomb set to explode half an hour after you wake up.
The book is a wake-up call but most people are so fast asleep that they would not even hear a plane crashing in their own bedroom.
Luckily in a way, an epidemic should be able to wake them up. And when they do they are going to cry more tears than any crocodile ever did.
The book is a wake-up call but most people are so fast asleep that they would not even hear a plane crashing in their own bedroom.
Luckily in a way, an epidemic should be able to wake them up. And when they do they are going to cry more tears than any crocodile ever did.
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Name: Medium.com
Thursday, March 19, 2020
Colorado distilleries switch to making hand sanitizer, and they’re giving it away free
Colorado distilleries switch to making hand sanitizer, and they’re giving it away free
Enjoy the alcoholic taste of this hand-beer
Enjoy the alcoholic taste of this hand-beer
Saturday, March 14, 2020
No revolution without love
The Poldarks, A Sad Love
Story
Though
this review only concerns the first five seasons of the series, though a sixth
season is rumored here and there but not announced on IMDb yet, the
social and political, let alone historical, questions maneuvered in this series
are essential to maybe understand the world we live in when confronted to a
deflagration of the COVID-19 type. Nothing can stop the greed and the
narrow-mindedness of those who hold power in order to promote their own
privileges, be they the privileges of a profession, a social status or a
hereditary position.
Power corrupts for sure.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely for sure too.
But corrupted power corrupts down to the last roots of the social jungle.
Enjoy the acting of quite good actors, though maybe too stiffly defined or directed.
Power corrupts for sure.
Absolute power corrupts absolutely for sure too.
But corrupted power corrupts down to the last roots of the social jungle.
Enjoy the acting of quite good actors, though maybe too stiffly defined or directed.
Publication Date: 2020
Publication Name: Medium.com
Saturday, March 07, 2020
De Mesguich à Agrippine il n'y a qu'un Cyrano
Cyrano
de Bergerac, Daniel Mesguich & Agrippine
Rencontrer Cyranode Bergerac vous fait passer de
la lune au soleil en un tour de main.
Rencontrer son Agrippine dont il clame la mort
mais qui ne fait que commencer à mourir, une procédure lente de torture qui
consiste justement à ne pas mourir quand on le voudrait tant, c'est un supplice
de tantale nécrophilique et mortifaire.
Rencontrer Daniel Mesguich écartelé entre les
deux, et faisant sortir ses acteurs et actrices de son chapeau de metteur en
scène comme autant de démons angelliques qui sont là pour nous triturer l'âme et
tirailler l'esprit, c'est le plaisir exquis de la petitre mort de la jouissance
mentale plus que charnelle que nosu avons souvent oubliée au fond de quelque
ruelle obscure où le Roi se réveille, se révèle et se relève de ses cartes de
France sans fin.
Voilà ce que je vous offre.
Un article, une étude, un entretien, une entrevue,
le tout en quelques pages et avec mes encouragements devant la tâche immense de
pénétrer au moins quatre niveaux de sens, Cyrano de Bergerac, Agrippine, Daniel
Mesguich, et moi-même pour vous accompagner dans la descente aux enfers
du Grand Siècle. Et Cyrano de Bergerac était vraiment un diable en chair et en
os, bien qu'il manquât l'immensité d'un Faust, faute d'un Méphistophélès.
Publication
Date: 2020
Publication
Name: Théâtres du Monde, n°30
Sunday, March 01, 2020
Angst and Shame
What good is it to rebel
against something
that is not even identified
What can we think of this podcast that tells us in its first episode we
have to rebel, to come together and rebel? What does rebelling mean? We do have
a cause, but what can we do? Take to the streets? And then what? Vote? And then
what since the result will be the one imposed by the social media we know, and
we do not even try to curb? And Facebook may be used by many tweeting actors
but what they do then, these actors, is one million more important than whatever
one million people in every city of ours could do: they dictate the result of
elections. These social media have to be contained and quarantined. You can put
as much water in the poison as you want, it will just expand the quantity of
poison. It will not destroy the poison.
It is mostly like passing water into a bass to make it produce music. If
you are numerous enough and if the bass is fluid-tight enough you may fill it
up sometime soon, but all that protest is locked up into the bass and if it
overflows on the sidewalks or in the gardens of their (of the people who have all
power, wealth and the matrix of it all in their own hands) palaces they will
send the police, national guard or army to clean it up, meaning to pick up,
collect, gather these demonstrating bodies, and you would be nothing but
object-bodies, and to put them in some kind of black-maria pick-up, collecting shielded
school-bus or garbage collecting truck.
If you want to change things you have to change the angst of people into
knowledge and not some kind of belief that is purely out of any logic because
it is based on faith, but this knowledge has to be good enough to produce more
knowledge in a sustainable and durable way. And knowledge means evidence,
experimentation, checks and counter-checks, and if possible no fails, a lot of
confrontation and speculation and the good enough moderator or moderators to
enable something that will be the useful and effective truth for a while to be
born, even if it hurts somewhere because the future is like a pregnancy, it
does not come to life swimming in syrup and cream. The present novel coronavirus
epidemic, and soon pandemic is here to remind us that any delivery in the cycle
of giving life to the future is difficult, painful and it takes a whole village
to deliver a child, it takes the whole humanity to deliver tomorrow’s life.
We have to get out of the tiger-cages we have been locked up in, but
where is the key that our masters have thrown in the deepest ocean on some very
distant and unreachable planet in some other galaxy? Where indeed? Let me
suggest it is in our mind and heart if we can listen to the deepest
enlightenment that may come from down there deep in our ever-changing essence,
and yet it is not immune against any friendly-looking or reasonable-looking or
common-sense-looking intrusion from the tweeting people.
SO, HERE
IS WHAT I WROTE ON THE FIRST EPISODE OF THIS PODCAST
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
Good idea but what’s the impact? Who is
listening? If Novel Coronavirus takes over, it might become the only
^possibility to be connected to the outside world apart from traditional media
if they are not impacted by the pandemic coming up. Trump is a detail in history,
and we have to widen the vista and the vision to see beyond, and unluckily no
one sees beyond. Europe and Japan are not what is beyond because they are the
new fields of this taking over of all “democratic” societies by trapping their
democracies into a tiger-cage as the French did with the Viet-Minhs during the
Indochina war. We are being locked up in this cage which is mental more than
anything, and those who rebel against it are most of them proposing us another
cage as tight as a yellow vest, a yellow straight jacket, or a red armor that
only lets our arms move to hit policemen. And on the black side of the rainbow,
on the extreme right, it is even worse, with Hitler and Mussolini laughing in
their tombs, if they have one.
