Posted on 06/17/2017 12:23:22 PM PDT by impetrio1
On the June 16th edition of WNYC's "On the Media", the New York City affiliate of National Public Radio, hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield took the soft-spoken approach explaining that political assassination satire has been part of the arts culture going all the way back to William Shakespeare and even qualified the outrage over NYC's Public Theater's depiction of the Donald Trump-Julius Caesar onstage bloodletting with a 2012 Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis production where an Obamaesque Caesar was also killed onstage.
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Protest this event the Right way, Handcuff yourself to something. If you are attacked or physically muffled-—SUE till there’s no tomorrow.
Trump Caesar is cultural appropriation
resist NPR snootery
Never put yourself in the unenviable position of defending the indefensible.
Perhaps someone can make an animation or something that depicts the head of NY Public Radio in ... say ... Lolita where his likeness can be a pedophile.
It’s art, doncha know.
Today's liberals, especially these so-called "progressives," with all of their domination of academia and Far Left politics, seem to fit into a category described in an essay by T.S. Eliot on Virgil:
"In our time, when men seem more than ever to confuse wisdom with knowledge and knowledge with information and to try to solve the problems of life in terms of engineering, there is coming into existence a new kind of provincialism which perhaps deserves a new name. It is a provincialism not of space but of time--one for which history is merely a chronicle of human devices which have served their turn and have been scrapped, one for which the world is the property solely of the living, a property in which the dead hold no share."(Bold added for emphasis)
Without intellectual anchoring in the enduring ideas which provided the philosophical foundation of America's Declaration of Independence and Constitution, their vain imaginations of superiority only expose their limited world view.
Yet, the America which rose from obscurity to greatness, from crude hoes and axes to putting a man on the moon, and from oppression by King George to a symbol of liberty for millions all over the world--that America provides shelter for them, even as they attempt to "change" her into something unimagined by the Founders.
If they are allowed to succeed in their own little provincial experiment, their posterity never will know the "blessings of Liberty" proclaimed by the Preamble to America's Constitution.
Now would be a good time for conservatives to read Dr. Russell Kirk's "The Conservative Mind, which can be read online, by the way.
In Kirk's last chapter he reviews the works of poets and writers, quoting lines which now seem to bear a strikinig resemblance to the players on the stage in American politics today.
For instance, in Robert Frost's "A Case for Jefferson," Frost writes of the character Harrison:
"Harrison loves my country too
But wants it all made over new.
. . . .
He dotes on Saturday pork and beans.
But his mind is hardly out of his teens.
With him the love of country means
Blowing it all to smithereens
And having it made over new."
Yes, the pseudointellectuals who occupy the White House, the media, and much of Congress fancy themselves "intellectuals."
By their words and actions, however, they display that provinciality Dr. Kirk recalls as having been described by T. S. Eliot (see above) as being one of time and place, having no intellectual grounding in ideas older than their own little experience in dabbling and discussing Mao, Marx, and other theoreticians.
America's written Constitution deserves protectors whose minds are out of their "teens" in terms of their understanding of civilization's long struggle for liberty.
It certainly deserves protectors who do not consider it a "flawed" document because that Constitution does not permit the government it structures to run rough shod over the rights of its "KEEPERS, the People" (Justice Story).
Blasting it "all to smithereens" seems to be the goal of the Far Left which, until the recent election, had control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the government. Even now, there are enough "progressive" regressives who are convinced they can overturn the decision of "We, the People."
They, and all their fellows, rely on what they must believe to be the ignorance of the American people when they make such ridiculous claims. They have been outwitted, however, by an increasingly knowledgeable citizenry who are using the miracles of technology to study for themselves ancient and modern writings on the ideas of liberty versus those of tyranny. As Jefferson wisely observed:
"History, by apprising the people of the past, will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views."
Perhaps some patriots need to perform some ‘art’ of their own. Make it as over the top as possible, with references to horrific violence directed towards all the sacred cow bigwig politicians on the left, but do it under the veneer of performance art. No, I’m not talking about openly calling for violence against politicians on the left, just “dramatizing” it because apparently that’s acceptable now. When the outrage from the MSM starts, the producers should calmly reply that they’ll be glad to end the production once the Shakespeare in the park production closes.
“Trump Caesar is cultural appropriation”
And it’s completely inaccurate. A much more accurate cultural appropriation is
Hillary,Obama,Jarrett,Rice,Comey,Brennan,Podesta,Rhodes,Soros,MSM etc.
EQUALS
Stalinist era Politburo
or
The Committee on Public Safety (French Revolution)
Good. Because I dreamed that I fantasized about a tone poem of someone unloading a 12 gauge shotgun at Barack Hussein Obama’s face at point blank range. The satire attached thereto is metaphysically self-evident.
I think what we need to do is stir up the Bernie Sanders supporters about the billionaires who own the NYT and Washington Post. Carlos Slim is not even an American
You must look to NPR to explain the significance of assassination Art, folks. Get with the program! It is such a beautiful thing to imagine the brutal slaying of Donald Trump. There is just such wonderful artistic symbolism in that! Problem is, only the radicals on the left know what it is.
Caeser, like Trump, sought to drain the Roman swamp of its corruption. He was killed by the same evil men who seek Trump’s demise.
I’m sure the Demonuts will not complain when the same type of things are done to the next Demonut President
How about an ‘Art’ video of Michelle Obama being gang raped by KKK guys? Its art, doncha know.
Would they protest to coming plays
where anchors & reporters —who practice sedition—
and their families are raped, skinned, burnt alive,
and beheaded before being eaten by pigs?
Yes, they would.
This liberal murder-porn has no relationship to art. Propaganda, which seeks only to deaden the mind and raise the basest of emotions can never be art. It is the antithesis of art. It is anti-art.
#DemocratsRTerrorists
The only Julius I want to see is orange.
A couple guys in dunce caps and bed sheets being chased around a luxury hotel by Moochy brandishing leg of lamb. Accompanied by “Yackety Sax”
Obama as Caesar. That’s laughable.
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