http://www.redbubble.com/works/show/38639 Muse: “Abbé” links in for detail.. load the u…
http://www.redbubble.com/works/show/38639 Muse: “Abbé” links in for detail.. load the url in your browser and wait a few moments.. and then zoom in to 100% and wait a few more moments to see the brush strokes up close.
The recent scurry of activity over in this corner is a result of me finding a box of my old art stuff up in the loft. I had no idea they …
The recent scurry of activity over in this corner is a result of me finding a box of my old art stuff up in the loft. I had no idea they were there. I’d moved house 5 times in as many years and had written them off as lost and gone forever. So I’m writing this while I give my scanner a well earned break to cool down, after I’ve stretched it’s little light-tube-doodad to capacity over the last few days! I’ve liberated a stack of sketch books, paintings and drawings, all sorts of stuff, created over the course of about 10 years! It’s a wonderfully cathartic feeling, as it seems to be liberating a whole big bunch of ideas from the back of my head as well. / So there should be some more heading here soon! Thanks for stopping by, looking at my pics, and reading my waffle… come back soon, and there’ll be some more :o)
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PETER GARRETT FOR PM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO FAR SO GOOD… BLOODY DICKSON CONTENTIOUS… FEDERAL ELECTION IN AUSTRALIA TODAY… BRING ON KYOTO! / BRING OUR ARMY HOME!
Ah well here’s another edition from the Buy-tees.net range. My host is down right at this moment lol – doesn’t bode well. Perhaps the FBI…
Ah well here’s another edition from the Buy-tees.net range. My host is down right at this moment lol – doesn’t bode well. Perhaps the FBI are on to me. Anyway I didn’t mean to get too political with this one, just the general sense of unease out there in the big bad wide world right now. Maybe it will pass, or maybe it won’t. All I know is constantly citing fear in each other whether justified or not must have some kind of limit. A fortress can quickly become a prison! Anyway that’s enough o my junk :p
Having liberated the chicken (or rooster, whatever it fucking is, perhaps we will just refer to it as fowl or foul depending on your tole…
Having liberated the chicken (or rooster, whatever it fucking is, perhaps we will just refer to it as fowl or foul depending on your tolerence for feathered beings), I now faced the dilemma of deciding in what direction to take my revolution, should I go all guerilla warfare style and hide in tree tops, wearing a ballet costume whilst throwing peanuts at tax collectors and other lowly govornment slaves, or is it time to get the people on board and build up an army more fearsome than Sydney’s mardi gras parade? Believe me people, the quest for global domination is never easy, I have had to perform the grizzliest of tasks I never thought I would, and despatched many a bird along the way, shit just this very morning I was almost taken out by one of those new, high tech, Japanese kamikaze pelicans…I now fear the rodents are plotting retribution…
though I’m no expert of this chinese way of life, I love the concept of energetic cleaning. it’s a simple truth, that we have to release …
though I’m no expert of this chinese way of life, I love the concept of energetic cleaning. it’s a simple truth, that we have to release old, superfluous things, believes, habits and even dreams. otherwise we are blocked and unable to give something new a chance and space enough to grow. so stunning, how wonderful freeing it is felt, when you set loose, whatever you were stuck to. you gain new strength without diminishing the experiences of the past by such refreshing acts. sometimes you have to throw away something, sometimes you only have to change your viewpoint. and it’s so crazy how much courage, we often need to do the first steps of a release. and how astonished, we soon ask ourselves, why didn’t we do it earlier? well, as we say here “better late than never”. and I’m really an expert of “better late than never”
hello to everyone that reads this….ive not been around for a long time…im sorry for that…not really been creating so hence why i ha…
hello to everyone that reads this….ive not been around for a long time…im sorry for that…not really been creating so hence why i havent been uploading…but ive done three new designs….one of them is pretty messed up and i will say again as i have said on the item description…..the monkey in the design was a healthy normal chimp….then i got my hands on his picture and all kinds of evil came out…..the reason im saying this is cos i showed the desing to a friend and they said it looked like one of those animal liberation posters where they get you to sign a petition….so if anyone finds the design distressing then i apologise….but it was a happy fluffy chimp before i started :D oh thanks to the people that have bought my stuff i really appreciate it ..i still find it hard to believe some people around the world (whereever they are from) are wearing my shirts….i feel so privledged that they liked it enought to wanna wear it in public…so thank you to everyone with all my heart oh and speaking of sales…i got my first commissions payment..woo…now what to spend it on catch you all laters….thanks again
The problems America faces really are a result of stupidity. Dumb people chose our president by voting for the guy they think is mos…
The problems America faces really are a result of stupidity. Dumb people chose our president by voting for the guy they think is most like them. Just because Bush was the guy they’d most like to have a beer with, the fact that he bankrupted 2 oil companies in Texas (an oil rich state) due to his incompetence was overlooked. His goal from day one has always been about getting as much money for himself and his friends from the stupid tax payers as possible. Lets look at how sports arenas are now built. The team owners threaten to leave a city unless the city builds them a new stadium. The city council members often cave into these jackals (I suspect they are bought off) and give them lucrative deals that make it impossible for the city itself to make any money from the stadium itself. The city pays for the stadium and its upkeep, lets the team owners have the concession, parking, and most of the ticket revenue and the stadium is rarely used for anything else without giving most of that revenue to the team owner as well. By the time the stadium is paid for, the team owners will demand a new one due to the age of the old one. There are many that claim to want change but continue to vote for the incumbents. It is almost always a case of your incumbent is bad, but mine is OK that rules in the voting booth. Congress has a very low rating, but my Congressman is not part of the problem. Try thinking, if congress is bad, all congressmen should be replaced, including yours! Single issue voters are the biggest idiots out there. If the person running is decent in most respects and has promoted good fiscal policies, but is pro choice, isn’t he a better choice to be given the purse strings than the antiabortion guy that has a reputation for reckless financial choices? Then again, many of the morons in the anti-abortion crowd are for the death penalty. What part of being pro life justifies this? Doesn’t your bible say “Thou shalt not kill.”? If so, I don’t see any loophole that says that you can kill if the other person has done bad things, it is only a 4 word commandment. No wiggle room seems to be included. Think carefully, if the 95% of Americans earn less than $250,000 aren’t they going to have more money to spend if their taxes are cut? Is the country going to prosper if the majority of the residents has more money to spend? Consumer spending is the engine that built the economic engine of the country. We didn’t prosper because the rich people bought all the cars and houses. We prospered because the middle class had extra income and spent it. Reaganomics, has been doomed from the outset. The rich do not spend enough to keep the country afloat. There are too few of them. For capitalism to work properly, you need a broad market. If too few people can buy your products or services, you can’t sell them. If more and more of the wealth goes into the hands of fewer and fewer people, there is not going to be enough demand to drive the economy. Under liberal government policies, the rich bear a larger tax burden. This places more spendable income into the hands of more people. Many of them spend and the economy prospers. If you place more dollars into the hands of fewer people, you cut off the economic engine of the country, and throughout our history, liberal politics increased our prosperity. If you are dumb enough to vote for the “Deregulator General” and his fundamentalist fool, you may as well plead for them to provide some lube before they ream you. You won’t be getting any mercy from them. The only option this country has for now is to elect Obama because at least then the economy can start to recover from the disaster Reagan’s policies has caused.
Were conservative values satisfied by Reagan’s Piss on Those Lower Than Yourself, or Spread Manure not Money policy (he called it “Trickl…
Were conservative values satisfied by Reagan’s Piss on Those Lower Than Yourself, or Spread Manure not Money policy (he called it “Trickle Down”)? I think not. In order for that theory to work, benevolent employers would spread wealth throughout their companies. Instead of that happening, greed dominated corporate America. Ponzi scheme after Ponzi scheme played out as a company shifted manufacturing out of the US in order to boost profits by cutting costs. For a while, jobs were still plentiful so no one noticed the real costs. The Reagan tax breaks made it easier for some people, eager to cash in, to form new companies that paid lower wages to startup. These companies absorbed employees that had been let go and started to prosper. As they prospered, many were bought by investors that saw an opportunity to make more money. Investors are not the same as owners, in that an owner usually takes time to make sure the employees are taken care of, investors look towards the bottom line and not much else. In a global economy it is always easy to find cheaper workers. As more work is sent out to the lowest cost workers, more workers here get laid off. Our economy is based upon people spending money. The wealthier people did not get that way by spending money. Thus, no matter how much money a wealthy person has, all they are interested in doing is making more money via investing it. It made no difference if goods were being produced locally or abroad, as long as they got a return on their investment they didn’t care. Well paid workers, spend money. It is the goods and services they buy that drives the economy forward. But the trend in America has been to get rid of the production workers. This set us up for a series of recessions. TV’s were among the first things that became so cheap to produce from outside our borders, that now none are made here. But the workers that made TVs were able to find other work for a while, so people still bought them. The auto industry has become another victim. Even though it is cheaper to assemble the cars here than to ship in finished products, most of the parts are now made elsewhere. The workers that used to make the parts sometimes find other work, but often end up going into other fields that pay a lot less. They end up not buying as much. The same trend occurs with other industries and goods, textiles, appliances, and so forth. The US now has a “service based” economy, we no longer make goods for others to buy, we sell information and cater to tourists. Most of the things we buy are produced elsewhere, but as long as some people are able to find work at menial wages, the greedy investor class is happy. The only industry that could never leave, housing, was delivered into the hands of the Ponzi artists via deregulation of the mortgage banks. This meant that a shell game could be played and the last person holding the mortgage may not have a good one. Banks protected their interests by creating layer upon layer of paper “derivatives” they could sell to the lowest levels of investors (those that bought into the market last). As the shell game raised the cost of housing, people were forced to stop buying houses. Temporarily, to protect the banks, interest rates were dropped. In order to keep the only sector still able to generate a profit for the banks, due to the deregulation, the banks issued riskier loans. It is impossible to have houses assembled elsewhere and ship them to a location. In order for builders to cut costs, cheaper labor has to be brought in from elsewhere. In order to actually employ the cheaper labor, trade unions would have to be destroyed. Thus we get “right to work” laws. Why hire a union worker when a non union one will cost you less than 1/3rd the amount in dollars and you can get away without paying for medical insurance as well. Once again, investors are happy to look the other way if labor costs are reduced so the loss of good paying jobs in this field didn’t bother them. The bubble was now primed and set to burst. Problems arose, when the oil companies allowed their market to be overtaken by speculators. Instead of having the direct cost of production and delivery setting the price for oil, deregulation allowed in gamblers that made bets and side bets which eventually came to be the dominating factor in the cost of a barrel of oil. The oil barons made so much more money making these bets that they pretty much have stopped much of their search for new sources of oil. They currently sit on 65,000,000 acres of land that they could explore and drill if necessary, but would rather steal more land from us than spend the money on exploration of their current assets. The obscene profits announced by Exxon Mobil every quarter are not poured back into production or exploration, they are placed into the betting pool. When the cost of getting to work started seriously eroding people’s ability to continue spending money on other goods, the schemes that hid the true cost of Reagan’s legacy started to unwind. People started curtailing their spending, layoffs increased, prices rose, as people lost jobs, mortgage defaults increased. As banks started tightening credit, people cut back further. The cut backs caused more layoffs in order to protect the investors bottom line. The recession started. The only way out of a recession is for people to spend money without using credit. That cannot happen without having jobs here in America. Investors will not part with their money, if they don’t see a benefit to them. Since manufacturing is not done here on a scale that creates the extravagant profits they seek, they are not willing to invest here in America. The only way to prime the economy is to take money from the upper 2% that control most it and get it into the hands of people that will spend it. But in order to get them to spend, you first have to stabilize their housing, food, medical, and transportation costs. It doesn’t matter if you call it socialism, it needs to be done. It always takes liberal policies to get the country out of the recessions caused by conservative greed. History repeatedly shows this to be true. Obama may not be liberal enough to get us out of the mess we are in, but he is a far better hope than McCain (one of the principal architects of deregulation) would ever be.
The best idea Henry Ford had was not using the assembly line to make cars. If you make cars that are expensive, you have to sell them at…
The best idea Henry Ford had was not using the assembly line to make cars. If you make cars that are expensive, you have to sell them at a very high price to the very rich. The rich did not get rich by spending money, and cars that don’t hold their value well are not sought out by them. There was not going to be a huge enough demand for cars unless they could be sold at a cheaper price. The assembly line was the only way to reduce the price, but that alone would not guarantee financial success for any auto maker. Ford’s brilliant idea was to pay his workers a wage that was high enough to afford his cars. The simple act of paying workers more than the going rate for the task gave his employers excess cash that would enable them to buy items (including cars) that were not necessary for keeping themselves fed and sheltered. This kind of liberal thinking fueled the US economy and helped us to prosper. Simply put, you need to have a product or service, and people that want it in order to drive an economy forward. Liberals put money into the hands of many more people. Unlike the rich, who spend very little, the middle class tends to spend money at a much higher rate than the rich. Most do so because they want enjoyment in their lives, working themselves to death is no longer in vogue. The majority of the middle class do not aspire to become rich, which would require them to forego the pleasures that spending provides. This benefits all people that produce, sell, or provide service. The greater the number of people that can spend, the bigger the GNP can grow. That is why our country prospered whenever the government was in the hands of liberals. Conservatives do not spend large amounts of money. Individual conservatives can amass large quantities of money, but because they do not spend much, they do not contribute much to the GNP. They like to think that by making “sound investment decisions” and reaping interest on their money, they make the economy work, but they are fooling themselves. When conservatives take control of the government, they immediately try to rein in spending. This starts a downward economic spiral because when less money is spent, fewer people are needed to work and unemployed people do not spend money on frivolous items. When the economic engine is very large, its power loss is barely noticeable and other parts of it may be able to absorb the workers and keep the engine running. But ultimately conservatism is best practiced on an individual basis and left out of government. Our current crisis started with Reagan’s “Trickle Down Economics”. Placing a very large tax burden on the people that drive the economy, enriched the pockets of investors (those who do not spend money, but try to make their money do work) and in the short term, things looked good. Investors do not like to pay workers, worker pay reduces the profit. In order to make the company attractive to investors, the IATT (Idiots At The Top) look for cheaper labor. This ploy also worked well for the short term. This further reduced the number of people that could and would buy products here. The more IATTs did to improve the return on investment, the larger the reduction in spending power the economy got in return. “Right to Work” What works well for the short term, does not always work well for the long term. When the Bush tax cuts stole more money from the true driving force of the economy, the investor class was ecstatic. The infusion of cash meant they could reap bigger dividends, but it was getting harder to find places to put the cash that would be “safe”. Conmen, thieves, and incompetence had found a happy home among the energy interests so serious people looked for investments in government backed assets and housing. Our once thriving manufacturing sector has been decimated. Almost all consumer electronic gadgets (TVs, DVD players, video games, mobile phones, etc.) are produced elsewhere. Most car parts are produced elsewhere and only get assembled into autos locally these days. Have you looked for domestically produced clothing or furniture these days? Those jobs and the wages that went with them are a thing of the past. The US became a very large service based economy. Information technology was looked upon as our future. But there was no escaping the IATT philosophy, out source it to save money. This caused the bubble in the investment bubble to burst fast. The better the bottom line looked to the IATTs, the worse the economy was getting. It used to be that customer service workers had to have very good language skills. Based upon my contacts with customer support reps, fair to poor English is taking over the market. This is probably because the increase in Asian based users that use the service and do understand the speaker is greater than those of us here in the US that need the service and have a hard time understanding the speaker at the other end of the phone. The IATTs at Microsoft, Dell, Hewlett Packard and at numerous other companies rarely here complaints about this, so due to the enormous cost savings and the increasing Asian market, the problem is going to persist. The only place that outsourcing is not viable is construction. That sector was looking good, so investors looked for ways to increase its profitability. Cheaper labor is one way, so employers were encouraged to hire people at the lowest possible rate. Construction projects are done using teams of contracted and subcontracted laborers. The people that oversee the construction sometimes hire laborers under the table so as to increase their profit. Whether the hired help is here legally or not is not asked in order to provide plausible deniability for the executives of the Architectural firms. Construction is not the only sector that has found happiness in using abnormally cheap local labor (anyone regardless of their immigration status that is willing to work for wages that are below the normal going rate for the job). If the normal rate for a job is $20.00 per hour and a contractor can find someone willing to do the job for $10.00, he will subcontract the job to the other guy and pocket the difference as his profit. Meat processing plants, landscaping firms, janitorial services, and many other places all look for cheap labor and often exploited illegal aliens to get it. Another insidious ways costs are cut in business all over the place is to cut hours back to the point that you no longer have to legally provided benefits for the employee (a favorite tactic of Wal-Mart and many food stores). Deregulation opened up another route for investment. Derivatives and short selling made the stock markets crap shoots. Banks saw credit cards as a money making venture through fees and exorbitant interest rates. Legalized loan sharking (without the danger to your life and limbs) took place. To keep the housing bubble intact, banks sought out ways to increase their customer base through less diligence in checking mortgage applicants ability to pay (they figured it would be easy to sell the same house several times if necessary since the housing market looked great). Conmen saw a chance to cash in on this promising target and encouraged people to take out mortgages low starting rates. This last bastion of “conservative” investment became one big Ponzi scheme. By the time it was recognized as such, it was too late.
Any economic stimulus package that places money into the hands of corporate America will fail. There is no way on Earth you can trust th…
Any economic stimulus package that places money into the hands of corporate America will fail. There is no way on Earth you can trust the greedy bastards that lined their own pockets at our expense to get us out of the economic mess they engineered. It is only by some form of liberal spending agenda that we can emerge from this mess, and there are way too few people with available cash to spend due to the economic incentives of the Bush administration (giving more to the have and have mores ensured very little money would be spent). The only nation that has tailored its stimulus package to maintain growth is China. They are putting the bulk of their money into the hands of those who drive the economic engine, spenders. Corporations are duty bound to create profit for their investors and do so by getting the cheapest labor possible to make their products. That is why whenever layoffs are announced by a company, its stock tended to go up. Conservative’s look at a trend like that and say that layoffs are good for business. That is only true when there is sufficient growth taking place to absorb the displaced workers. When people lose their job, they cut out unnecessary expenses (toys, cars, televisions, etc.). These reductions in sales lead directly to less demand for goods which drives down prices and profits. Further pressure is put on corporations to reduce the workforce in order to maintain profitability. It is a downward spiral that is difficult to get out of. If conservative business interests are allowed to control purse strings, this downward trend will continue. It is almost always possible to find a place with cheaper workers and lax environmental laws, even more so when money is placed into the hands of people in power. Yet the only way profits can be made is when money is spent by the consumers, who buy the goods. Moving your production costs into a cheaper labor market reduces the potential sales of products in your home base, and unless that labor market can also afford your product, you effectively ensure a downturn in your company. It is by raising the standard of living in those markets that you expand your economy, not by exploiting the people. The auto industry is not going to be able to expand let alone survive if people can’t afford their cars. Executives at GM, Ford and Chrysler ensured their doom by not keeping their production facilities here. Retooling and keeping the workers would have ensured that the people that work for them would be likely to buy cars. Most people that were let go by the Big 3 when they did find a job elsewhere, no longer had an incentive to buy an American car (if you can call a car that has had many of its components subcontracted out to foreign workers and merely assembled here, “American made”). On top of that, when other countries were forcing car makers to make fuel efficient cars, our big 3 were conspiring with the oil companies to build bigger fuel guzzling vehicles. When the oil companies got real greedy, look at who got shafted big time. In order to get Americans spending again, well paying dependable jobs are required. One easy way our government can lift a heavy burden falling on industry is to provide a single payer healthcare for all Americans. If all Americans have coverage, the burden is shared by the broadest possible group and costs are reduced accordingly. If corporate big wigs put money into the hands of their workers, instead of their own pockets, there is a chance the economy can pull out of its death spiral. The goal should not be to ensure profits at the expense of workers, for in the long run that benefits no one. The more equitable a worker’s pay is relative to the corporate leaders’, the better the chance that the worker will spend money. The reason for this is simple, Americans tend to spend excess cash rather than to save it. We have the desire for wrapping ourselves in cocoons of comfort and have no illusion of becoming overly wealthy. We work hard and play hard. We tend to save just enough to get the toys we want and are not miserly for the most part. Get us secure enough to spend again, and we will show the World the way to prosperity once again.
The key to economic recovery is job creation. Only people that feel secure in their employment spend money in the amounts needed to keep…
The key to economic recovery is job creation. Only people that feel secure in their employment spend money in the amounts needed to keep our economy afloat. With unemployment rising, spending money that may be needed to keep your house would be reckless. Sales can’t go up without a decline in unemployment. Job loss is the biggest hindrance to the mortgage crisis, refinancing your home doesn’t make any sense if you may lose your job. The downward spiral will continue unless enough jobs at decent wages are created in an area that does not depend upon spending by the general public. With that in mind, what should be done? First, let’s tackle one of the obstacles to job creation, Healthcare. Our current system places the burden of Healthcare squarely upon the shoulders of employers. As a result of the increased cost of care, more employers are opting out of providing benefits. When employers opt out of covering their employees, it increases the costs the other employers have to pay because the cost of care for the uninsured is always covered eventually by the insured that end up paying higher premiums. Notice the upward movement of costs coupled with the downward movement in employers willing to pay them? At some point in the not too distant future, the only people that will have insurance will be government employees as the rest of the employers will not be able to absorb the costs anymore. The way to make the system fairer is for universal healthcare coverage for everyone, at a level that includes all major health problems. Increasing the number of people in the pool to the entire population of the US, should make the per capita rate of Health Care drop, as there would not be any uninsured to be a burden on the system. Employers should be free to offer supplemental coverage for wellness programs (Gym memberships and similar things). If the wealthy wish to opt out of the (socialist) plan, they should be entitled to do so, but only if they assume “all of the actual costs” of their own care. By not having to burden themselves with Health Care costs, employers could increase the number of jobs and the wages so their employees can resume their role in the economy, spending their excess money. Second, the government could require that any house taken over by foreclosure can not be resold unless it meets strict codes for plumbing, electrical wiring, insulation, structural defects, etc. The people tasked with retrofitting these homes would be the construction workers that are currently idle do to the mortgage and housing crisis. That would ease the burden our housing sector has placed on the economy. Third, investment by the government in alternative energy must not be deterred by the false lowering of fuel prices now being done by big oil. They helped create the mess by cutting refining capacity, delaying oil exploration, and gouging the public. The best thing the government can do is to put up money for alternative energy structured in a way that prevents big oil from being able to buy or control these new sources. New energy sources should be controlled by the public so no company can cause damage to our economy in the way oil price gouging did during Bush’s terms.
Just wanted to share this clip with you and spread the joy I’m feeling today!!! Pete Seeger, his son and The Boss...
Just wanted to share this clip with you and spread the joy I’m feeling today!!! Pete Seeger, his son and The Boss
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I am especially happy about this feature, because this tee is about one of the most important things I’ve learned… and keep learning.
“We come in all colors” was featured in ART ACTION UNION – CREATIVE ACTIVISM 2 days ago / !http://images-0.redbubble.net/img/clothing/...
“We come in all colors” was featured in ART ACTION UNION – CREATIVE ACTIVISM 2 days ago / “Should I smile now?” was featured in the group Ladybugs 2 days ago / “Orchid’s heart” was featured in the group Canon DSLR (One Image Per Day) about 24 hours ago / “Monument to Civil War Soldiers” was featured in the group Public Art about 21 hours ago / “They come in all sizes…” was featured in I Love Birds about 5 hours / ago /
Thanks again to the wonderful hosts of Music Inspired Art for featuring my work ‘Free Fallin’ ’ this week. Blamo...
Thanks again to the wonderful hosts of Music Inspired Art for featuring my work ‘Free Fallin’ ’ this week. Blamo / TK / and / Paul This is a very special piece to me and I am so very pleased to have it featured!!! Thank you yet again! You guys rock and make me smile!!!!! XOXO Jenny
I have just read the latest entry in madworld’s journal. It’s about a dream she had and a photo (apparently posted by someone else) based…
I have just read the latest entry in madworld’s journal. It’s about a dream she had and a photo (apparently posted by someone else) based upon it. The image was entitled “The Blue Klux Klan”. Unbelievably, someone complained that it was “racist”!! I agree with her totally when she writes, “Come on people, lighten up and take things as they are meant, not what you want them to mean.” I think most of us have suffered at times from the PC brigade.We would all agree that racism, sexism, ageism etc are evil; about that there is no dispute. But to follow a PC track where no-one seems to have a sense of humour or a sense of proportion (or even any COMMON sense ) is wrong and pathetic. One of my photomanips is called “Just that time of the month”. It contains nudity and violence; however, its theme ( which to my mind was fairly obvious) is the empowerment of women. And yet, a number of people complained that it denigrated women…....precisely the opposite of its purpose! The site moderators suggested that I add an explanation, so people could understand what I was trying to do. I was happy to do this, even though I always feel that explanations of Art or poetry tend to sound a bit pompous; also, in my experience working out what a work is about is half the fun. Anyway, since I added that explanation literally hundreds of people have viewed the work. Is this the answer….to add an explanation to every poem and image so we are not misunderstood? I don’t know; it seems a bit extreme, but perhaps that is the way. What I do know is that, while personally I regard myself as Left Wing, and a firm believer in everything that genuinely promises to enrich the human spirit and progress the human race, I could do without the phoney liberals, the phoney feminists, and the New Puritans who see virtually all erotic Art as what they call “pornography”, and claim that it degrades women. Such people, often ignorant and full of self-importance, can do great damage if they are allowed to. While we are on this site, we must of course abide by its rules, but those of us who believe in freedom of expression, ordinary human decency, and a “live and let live ” attitude( and who still have, mercifully, a sense of humour) should find SOME way to avoid being misunderstood.
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