A Seat at the Table….

The Last Psychiatrist has a new article out, that touches on the media driven female desire for a “seat at the table” i.e. females clamoring for their own wage enslavement. 

I wanted to touch upon the root of the problem, which is and has always been inflation compounded with wage stagnation. 

This is a piece from The Economics of Global Turbulence by Robert Brenner.

“During the “Long Boom” of 1948-1973, the lowest annual profit rate in the U.S. industrial sector was still higher than the highest such rate in the ensuing period, the “Long Bust.” This fact is all the more shocking for being so contrary to the largely accepted story — often centered around the Reagan presidency, or Clinton’s “new economy,” depending on one’s party preference — of recent American history as one of minor falls and major lifts. “

From a review of Brenner’s book- Autumn of the Empire. Must read for all. http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/7756129051/autumn-of-the-empire

“He [Brenner] persuasively debunks the idea that industrial profits were squeezed by wages; indeed, real wages have stagnated and even decreased in the last four decades. This has been concealed only in the sphere of rhetoric: Statistics about “household earnings” desperately hope you won’t notice that households now require multiple incomes to keep up. THAT WASN’T FEMINISM SENDING WOMEN INTO THE TENDER MERCIES OF THE LABOR MARKET — or rather, it was, but at the same time the migration to the workplace was part of a protracted disaster for the working classes, masquerading as opportunity. And even while working more and harder, households have increasingly found themselves obligated to take on debt to stay afloat.”

“Filing papers would be SO much more rewarding!”

The media is driving women to work for a reason. The complicit snakes of these networks get their marching orders from higher ups that KNOW.

1) Inflation has made it almost impossible for a man to provide for a family

2) Two incomes means higher consumption of non-necessary goods

3) Women and children, the two groups most vulnerable to trends and marketing, can become a consumer group independent of male purse strings.

WHAT A FUCKING COUP! We were actually convinced us to SPEND MORE, while in reality, EARNING LESS…..all while patting ourselves on the back about how much progress we have made. The irony is staggering.

The Modern World Sucks. Here, Shoot a Cartoon.

Here is a terribly Orwellian commercial for some game called Metal Gear Rising. 

The message is that men should suppress their unhappiness and anger with the modern world, and channel it into meaningless pursuits.

This commercial, is “The Inception” of irony. Irony within irony (within irony?). Hey you! You can  escape the vapid, mechinaized, anomie and femininity of the modern world by killing cartoons. Here! Resolve your  fake, anomic existence inside of a fake, anomic exisitence. Do something by doing nothing!

There is this great idea called “crocodile humor.”

From Unqualified Reservations:

“Crocodile humor is the laughter of the powerful at the powerless. It is not intended to be funny. It is intended to intimidate. Those who laugh, as many do, are those who love to submerge themselves in a mob, feel its strength as theirs, chant.”

The video game, pornography, your “man cave”……. are your only allowed escapes.   All sparks of aggression must be funneled into meaningless pursuits, killed before an idea is formed.

Always important….

to keep your perspetive….

London: Then and Now

London then:

Damn, British people love waiting in lines…..

Notice how crowded it was. Surprisingly, people were able to wait in line without a riot or a fight ensuing.

and now?

Eastern European Squatters

Chavs and Chavettes

How terribly sad.

“The Party has Overtaken the Art”: A Rant

Quick background: Wynwood is a section of Miami that has recently been home to a burgeoning “art” scene, that in true Miami spirit quickly became a party scene. The “artists” and “art” patrons have their noses out of joint because no one wants to go see their “art” (random neon signs, cut out metallic spheres, cubes pasted onto canvas) without free booze and music.

From the Miami Herald article: “The Party has Overtaken the Art”

What made Pan American Art Projects Director Janda Wetherington decide to stop participating in Wynwood’s Second Saturday Art Walks was when someone spilled wine onto a $15,000 painting, then bailed before anyone noticed.

“By that point, we had already stopped offering wine or water to people who came into the gallery, and we even had someone guarding the door to make sure no one brought any food or drink inside,” Wetherington said. But even that tactic failed. “That’s when we started opening earlier in the afternoon on Second Saturdays and close by 8 p.m. at the latest.”

The monthly art walks, which are held the second Saturday of each month, draw thousands of young people and usually wind up as boisterous block parties. 

Fredric Snitzer, one of the few Miami gallerists invited to exhibit at Art Basel Miami Beach, says he doesn’t even bother to open on Second Saturdays any more. He is also pessimistic about the future of Wynwood as a thriving art district, even though he was one of the area’s pioneers (his gallery opened in 2004). (Flavia here: his  2 “art” pieces are right below.)  

“We don’t get the herds; we get to cultivate our audience to come to us,” she says. “But the tide has shifted dramatically. We used to serve wine, and we stopped that two years ago because kids would come in, pick up the glasses of wine and leave. One of the purposes of a gallery is to provide entertainment to people. Not everyone is a buyer. But you still want them to come to enjoy the art and learn and have their minds expanded. Just not to the point where it isn’t respected.’’

Kelley says that “very little” art is sold on Second Saturdays

 

 

 

Flavia here:

So I ruined Art Walk. My friends ruined Art Walk. We only went for the wine and the parties. When you have a bunch of people showing up for a free glass of wine, the art is secondary.

But what do they expect? It is a bunch of entitled trust fund babies flailing about with paint and brushes, surprised that people only want the booze. They want “art” to be graffiti and an ironic use of toilets juxtaposed with religious imagery, then are surprised when all we’ll do is drink.

That art gets the respect it deserves.

People pay to go to the Louvre. Hell, people pay $100 for books of pictures of old Italian buildings. But people won’t go to your free show (with free parking!). It’s because your art is not art.

NOBODY actually, really, truly thinks whats going on in Wynwood is anything more than decadence. Nobody. I’d show up to a collection of “art” from kindergarten kids if they had an open bar, a DJ, and I could dress cute.

They want reverence and respect for taping a picture of a skinny model next to a Dunkin Donuts ad.

But what they really want is the affluent to show up with open wallets and drop obscene amounts of money on shit, so that the artist can hang out at LIV and afford bottle service. That’s the truth. The artist wants a Mercedes and Brickell condo but doesn’t want to work. So they throw this party to create buzz (advertising in lieu of quality) and hope that all the hip diversity (broke as a joke) will bring in the moneybags seeking “authenticity”

The Goldman banker, feeling one with the people, after a hard day of raping foreign nations, will show up with the funky people and buy his way into Hip-ness.

The whole thing is typical and about the best this culture can produce now.

They have no idea what it takes to create beauty. The sacrifice, learning, training, failure, exclusion, failure, and loneliness. The great European artists lived like monks. And these fucking degenerates think they’ll pain a toilet brown and ask 50,000$ for it.

Fuck that. Party on, Wynwood.

The Onion…Hmmm

Impending Blackout Gives the City’s Working Class Its Chance to Rise Up Against their Wealthy Oppressors

Gay-Pride Parade Sets Mainstream Acceptance Of Gays Back 50 Years

“I’d always thought gays were regular people, just like you and me, and that the stereotype of homosexuals as hedonistic, sex-crazed deviants was just a destructive myth,” said mother of four Hannah Jarrett, 41, mortified at the sight of 17 tanned and oiled boys cavorting in jock straps to a throbbing techno beat on a float shaped like an enormous phallus. “Boy, oh, boy, was I wrong.”

New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don’t Want To Have A Country Anymore

“Few respondents expressed strong feelings, but most thought dissolving the union would ‘be a lot easier for everyone.’”

Racial Harmony Achieved By Casting Of Black Actor As Teen Computer Whiz

HO HO HO! 9-11 Was an Inside Job!

Klan Rally 70 Percent Undercover Reporters

Overcome Stress By Visualizing It As A Greedy, Hook-Nosed Race Of Creatures (video)

Fuck Everything, Nation Reports

“…as if that were even fucking possible, as if anyone could change what happened, as if the same fucking bullshit isn’t going to keep happening again and again and fucking again before people finally decide it’s time to change the way we live, so what’s the point? What the hell is the goddamned point?”

Local Jew Feels Left Out Of Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy

Women Now Empowered By Everything A Woman Does

 

Anti-Racism Laws Mutate Racism Into Newer, Stronger Form

Educated Bigot That Much More Terrifying

Man Finally Put In Charge Of Struggling Feminist Movement

Alarming Study Finds More Than 12 Instances Of Racism Occurred Last Year

Detroit Sold For Scrap

Maya Angelou Honored For Courage, Blackness

Nation’s Blacks Creeped Out By All The People Smiling At Them

This Racist Propoganda Practically Writes Itself!

NAACP Says Enough Done To Promote Racial Equality

Did Six Million Really Visit The Holocaust Museum?

Affable Anti-Semite thinks Jews are Doing a Super Job With the Media (audio)

World’s Jews Celebrate Christmas With Ceremonial Re-Murdering Of Christ

The Jewish People Have Endured So Much, What I’m Going To Put Them Through Is Nothing

Jew-Sponsored Stock Car Booed Off Track

Activist Judge Cancels Christmas

Jews Begin To Make Presence Felt In Entertainment Law

Stereotypes Are A Real Time-Saver

 

Artist Self Portraits: Then and Now

Art Basel Miami is over. Lots of “art“, including a lovely graffiti piece on the butcher cunt, Leon Trotsky. It was mostly a reason to go to Spin parties and stand around douchebags. Good times. Anyway, I found this post from my old blog topical so I dug it up.

THEN

Did anyone else see the Dr. Who clip of when they show Van Gogh his paintings in the museum?? ; _ ;

NOW: 

Who else but Damien Hirst?

“Art.”

To cleanse the palate, here is a lovely article on Norman Rockwell’s self portrait.

Opera Mondays

Man…i need a new post.

Anyway, here’s this dude Arturo Chacon-Cruz. I’ve seen him twice already and he’s wonderful. His voice really carries up to the nosebleed seats, lol.

 

Opera Mondays

This chick is pretty bad ass (Diana Damrau)

 

Opera Mondays

 

 

I love this song. When I found it I listened to it on repeat for two weeks. It’s so cute they’re bffs.

Hollywood Egalitarianism Forces Everyone to be an Asshole

I am ambivalent about this post. I already feel deeply guilty, and like a mean girl. However, I thought it was interesting enough…..

It all started when Andrew Hamilton, my favorite writer over at CC penned an article about the new mestizo Gerber baby, that replaced the famous very cute mug that we all know and love.

The PC nonsense surrounding the choosing of a non white didn’t really shock or upset me. I was stuck on something else when gazing upon the winner:

“That baby is not cute. At all.”

Seems I wasn’t alone.

In case you couldn’t read the last comment: “That is way more than a lazy eye. She has the look of a typical Mexican that has had far too much to drink and can’t find their way back to the stationwagon.”

So here we are. A bunch of assholes, talking shit about a poor defenseless baby.

What’s the point of this? Egalitarianism.

Egalitarianism is not just about race and sex, there is also the insidious agenda to completely circumvent biology and basic hierarchy. I find that the media and Hollywood in particular relish in trying to convince us that the aesthetically unappetizing is actually an object of beauty.

And of course, we’re the assholes, for reminding the world that 2+2= 4.

If the contest was just to find the next non-white cutest baby, why not this participant?

Commenter UFASP said it best:  Someone is TRYING to make US sensible, HONEST people capable of order and rank– who are not all sentiment and have some grip on reality– into the bad guys because at every moment they tempt us into saying the obvious. It’s like we’re being poked with a stick. The ugly stick! The ones provoking this response out of us– they’re the indecent ones– not us who have some sense of aesthetic priority.

Obviously it’s usually not about babies. Maxim was recently raked over the coals when it published it’s list of “Top 5 Unsexiest Women.” The rag was called sexist, mean, degrading to women…not to mention the ubiquitous ”small dick” jokes.

But where they being mean, or is it the case that men (and women) are a little sick and tired of being told who is and is not beautiful by the agenda driven douches in Hollywood?

Here are some of the women who made Maxim’s fug list, as well as other women Hollywood touts as “beautiful.”

Sarah Jessica Parker

 

Starred in a hit show where she was approached by men all the time, in countless situations, dated a whole bunch of hot rich guys, and then finally, we she was in her 40s, got the unavailable long-life bachelor alpha to marry her.

She has also been in fashion countless magazines usually reserved for models.

Sandra Oh

She was on Grey’s Anatomy, which I have never seen. A quick google of her character showed she was involved with this dude on the show.

Also, I saw way too many magazine spreads like this trying to convey her “sex appeal”….ugh please don’t do that.

SHE WAS ALSO ONE OF PEOPLE’S MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN 2005!

Leah Michelle

From the show Glee, where she gets the guy over the gorgeous Quinn. Magazines are already benefiting from her eagerness to appear sexy.

She was also in People’s Top 25 hotties under 25 in 2012. 

Sarah Silverman

They tried….lol.

She was in People’s 50 most beautiful people in 2009. I had to provide a link for fear you’d all call me a liar.

Beyonce

 I could not find one non-photoshopped/airbrushed photo. Beyonce is pretty….but….

World’s most beautiful woman? Have you done the necessary legwork?

Maggie Gyllenhaal

America says no, and Hollywood just keeps on pushing it. She was featured in the Dark Knight and Agent Provocateur, as well as sexy dude’s magazines.

Jennifer Lopez

Again with the most beautiful….I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE

Alyson Hannigan

Hollywood has gone into overdrive trying to make her a sex symbol. I don’t get it. Is it because she’s attainable to nerds or something?

Honorable mentions to Haylie Duff

Chelsea Handler

and Jennifer Aniston (who has been heavily featured on People’s most beautiful from 1998-2012)

Things have turned on their head so much that this stupid concept of “fairness” trumps basic biology to seek what is beautiful. A revolt against nature.

I honestly believe if there wasn’t such a push towards the acceptance of unattractive people as sex objects, there wouldn’t be as much push-back. I don’t think people are inherently mean, and I certainly am not….but there comes a point when an honest answer to the incessant prodding (isn’t she hot!? ISN’T SHE HOT!) needs a firm “Fuck no, dude.”

And am not letting the dudes get away with anything either……

Adam Sandler

Ben Stiller

always date/are married to completely gorgeous women.

What these dudes don’t understand is you can get these girls in real life because you’re famous, rich, and powerful. If you’re playing a “normal dude” it just becomes kind of sad that you have these delusions.

Hollywood does love the “nebbish loser gets hot blonde” story-line….but that’s another post.