Monday, January 10, 2005
Post Holiday Revival And Promethean Flights Of Fancy
A thousand apologies for my extended holiday delinquency -- and delinquencies to come. I'm still somewhat buried in time-consuming post holiday chores, errands, and reveries but felt compelled to blurt out a brief posting in blogland.
As I had stated before the holiday, postings here will now be less frequent (weekly). I'll get a post up next week (by the 17th).
I'm way backlogged on general information gathering and have added to my already excessive stack of unread books, so reading will presently outweigh writing as a leisure folly.
There is much to comment on and link to but I'm whipping this up in hurried frenzy knowing that most readers probably realize that we are still fighting a pathetic Fascist religious ideology, there are still fellow citizens sympathizing with the enemies of open and free society, and the UN and Euro-land are still using daily world events as excuses to continue their tirades against the US and free-market capitalism. If I had more time, the issues I'd like to cover and the style I'd cover them in, would be like those found at boortz.com Sometimes he's a little "blunt" but I think he states the Libertarian/Conservative/Classical Liberal position as well as anyone.
For now, before I dash off to personal pursuits, I'll leave you with my observations regarding Martin Scorsese's new film, “The Aviator."
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AVIATION AND THE PROMETHEAN VISION
I've just returned from a distant journey across the ocean. Like most people, I'm no one special. I’m definitely not rich. In prior eras I would have likely been dead by now, or crouched over in a field in service to some lord, king, or state “representative.” I certainly wouldn't be writing of varied topics to a distant audience. While traveling across the Pacific I took note, as I always do, of the miracle of modern existence for lowly plebs like myself. Common drones with no noteworthy occupation or income can now...fly! Watching a few movies and dining on hot food while in transit are mere icing on the technological / democratic cake. What was I doing at 38,000 feet and twelve hours between Japan and Colorado? I dare suggest that it was the much-maligned free market (Capitalism!) that not only catapulted me across the sea, but also afforded me a general lifestyle superior to that of kings in past eras.
Amidst my holiday frolic in Boulder, Colorado I coincidently saw Martin Scorsese's new film, "The Aviator," a grand testament to Promethean will, inventiveness -- and occasional insanity. Howard Hughes (whose story the film depicts) was the epitome of the Promethean vision. I don't know what Scorsese’s personal politics are (he's certainly no Oliver Stone type Hollywood communist), but I was thrilled to be watching a conversation -- rare in a Hollywood movie -- where the sympathetic main character insightfully critiques the phony hypocrisies of socialism. Another grand scene of Promethean polemic in the film is where Howard Hughes is being grilled before a congressional committee. How many times have brilliant, principled and productive, souls been attacked by the useless swine of the state's bureaucracy?
I don't mean to elaborate this writing into a review of the movie. Suffice it to say that I highly recommend "The Aviator" as both historical epic and psychological drama.
To break the bonds of conforming smug pretension, and even gravity itself, requires the productive and truly revolutionary insight that one will never find amongst the stale adherents of socialist dogma and inertia.
The condition of an average person flying across an ocean for the holidays is not something that comes about by the “efforts” of government agencies or rants on the virtues of, "sharing."
The Promethean vision, like flying, is a symbol of revolutionary progress -- something "revolutionaries" and "progressives" can never even begin to fathom.
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Back to a more substantial posting routine next week...
As I had stated before the holiday, postings here will now be less frequent (weekly). I'll get a post up next week (by the 17th).
I'm way backlogged on general information gathering and have added to my already excessive stack of unread books, so reading will presently outweigh writing as a leisure folly.
There is much to comment on and link to but I'm whipping this up in hurried frenzy knowing that most readers probably realize that we are still fighting a pathetic Fascist religious ideology, there are still fellow citizens sympathizing with the enemies of open and free society, and the UN and Euro-land are still using daily world events as excuses to continue their tirades against the US and free-market capitalism. If I had more time, the issues I'd like to cover and the style I'd cover them in, would be like those found at boortz.com Sometimes he's a little "blunt" but I think he states the Libertarian/Conservative/Classical Liberal position as well as anyone.
For now, before I dash off to personal pursuits, I'll leave you with my observations regarding Martin Scorsese's new film, “The Aviator."
AVIATION AND THE PROMETHEAN VISION
I've just returned from a distant journey across the ocean. Like most people, I'm no one special. I’m definitely not rich. In prior eras I would have likely been dead by now, or crouched over in a field in service to some lord, king, or state “representative.” I certainly wouldn't be writing of varied topics to a distant audience. While traveling across the Pacific I took note, as I always do, of the miracle of modern existence for lowly plebs like myself. Common drones with no noteworthy occupation or income can now...fly! Watching a few movies and dining on hot food while in transit are mere icing on the technological / democratic cake. What was I doing at 38,000 feet and twelve hours between Japan and Colorado? I dare suggest that it was the much-maligned free market (Capitalism!) that not only catapulted me across the sea, but also afforded me a general lifestyle superior to that of kings in past eras.
Amidst my holiday frolic in Boulder, Colorado I coincidently saw Martin Scorsese's new film, "The Aviator," a grand testament to Promethean will, inventiveness -- and occasional insanity. Howard Hughes (whose story the film depicts) was the epitome of the Promethean vision. I don't know what Scorsese’s personal politics are (he's certainly no Oliver Stone type Hollywood communist), but I was thrilled to be watching a conversation -- rare in a Hollywood movie -- where the sympathetic main character insightfully critiques the phony hypocrisies of socialism. Another grand scene of Promethean polemic in the film is where Howard Hughes is being grilled before a congressional committee. How many times have brilliant, principled and productive, souls been attacked by the useless swine of the state's bureaucracy?
I don't mean to elaborate this writing into a review of the movie. Suffice it to say that I highly recommend "The Aviator" as both historical epic and psychological drama.
To break the bonds of conforming smug pretension, and even gravity itself, requires the productive and truly revolutionary insight that one will never find amongst the stale adherents of socialist dogma and inertia.
The condition of an average person flying across an ocean for the holidays is not something that comes about by the “efforts” of government agencies or rants on the virtues of, "sharing."
The Promethean vision, like flying, is a symbol of revolutionary progress -- something "revolutionaries" and "progressives" can never even begin to fathom.
Back to a more substantial posting routine next week...
