SirPalomides

I stand corrected! Bravo to the intrepid journalist at Reuters surfing the internet in his Manila hotel room.

Summary: China put out some schmaltzy video and a bunch of keyboard warriors thought it sucked. Earth-shaking news here. Bravo to the intrepid journalists at Yahoo.

Zinaida Serebriakova’s portrait of her daughter Tatiana

Showing respect to the teacher, by summoning the teacher’s spirit and making sacrifices and prayers to the spirit, seems pretty religious to me. I recognize there is lots of debate about what constitutes “religion” and whether Confucianism can be called a religion- I’m not really interested in that as it doesn’t actually tell you much about what Confucianism is. But there is more to it than just a nod of respect.

Wait, so foreigners need to be kept in the dark about Daoism so they can’t counteract our Chinese Daoist wizards? That doesn’t sound right. Anyway horse is out of the barn there since Daoists have been teaching “barbarians” for a long time now.

From what I’ve seen of Soviet animations, they had some enormously innovative and talented people working on them.

While we’re still on cats, here are two of Picasso’s Cat versus Lobster paintings

Where my family is a lot of the racism is directed at Moros from the Philippines who live on that part of the island (northeast Borneo). Generally they are tarred as thieves, lazy, etc as well as potential Abu Sayyaf members. On the other hand it’s obvious they do a lot of important work and many people have good relations with some of them. Xenophobia is just a shitty thing that usually crops up when two or more different groups are brought into proximity to each other and working against it is a necessary but Sisyphean labor.

Taomeow might like this one by Remedios Varo, the Paradise of Cats. Like Leonora Carrington she is a surrealist with a big inspiration from occult and alchemical images (it is more obvious in some of her other paintings)

From KY Kraft’s Beauty and the Beast

Here’s a Gennady Spirin illustration from the Lord is My Shepherd and another one from the Sea King’s Daughter (based on the story of Sadko)

I love Strega Nona, I got my own copy signed by Tomi DiPaola actually. There are actually still plenty of amazing children’s book illustrators- it is actually a great place to look for traditional fine art. Among my favorites are Russian artist Gennady Spirin and Japanese-American KY Kraft. I’ll dig up some images.

Like any other large group of people Chinese people have a large range of opinions and sometimes the worst ones are the loudest. It doesn’t always work out that way though. Recently the SCMP put out an article about how a Chinese model of mixed Han-Nigerian descent was getting racist abuse online (I think it was on Weibo)- what they failed to mention was that for every dumbass racist comment there were something like 10 people jumping on them and telling them to piss off.

I’m surprised I never heard of that Visit to William Blake’s Inn Book- that looks fantastic. And thanks Taomeow for the Leschenko paintings, they’re gorgeous.

Fu Xi discovering the trigrams (dragon horse to the left). Painted by Qiu Ying (16th century)

That ad is fucked up and everyone responsible should be ashamed. It’d be even worse if Chinese had previously engaged in a campaign of rape and slaughter across the African continent and maintained a vast workforce of enslaved Africans. “ZOMG Chinese can be racist too so anti-Chinese racism doesn’t exist” Big brain shit right here

Of course I’m not reading your links man, I barely read 40% of your own interminable rants. Bo-ho-ring! It’s funny you bring up Chomsky though, he gets called stuff like “Khmer Rouge apologist,” “Viet Cong apologist,” “self-hating Jew” etc all the time by the kind of neocon hacks you love.

I had read some of her short stories years ago and I honestly don’t remember much except enjoying them. I should revisit them.

Dali invented the paranoiac critical technique which as I recall was a deliberate induction of paranoia- for instance, you go for a walk and see a crow, and then deliberately read crow-like patterns into all the surrounding architecture or landscape. It is an interesting artistic exercise for sure. As for his motivations... well I think Andre Breton was write to dub him with the anagram “Avida Dollars.”

Ha, Achcar is a perfect example of pro-imperialist pseudo-leftist, of course he’s going to try to attack the journalists of the Grayzone. https://thegrayzone.com/2019/10/03/leftist-regime-change-activist-gilbert-achcar-academics-train-uk-military/

Look, I’ve got a big ego so I love the attention you’re giving me, but maybe derailing a thread about Falun Gong to geek out on your personal hobbies is kind of selfish. You could start a thread called something like “Weird and fucked up shit about Sir Palomides”. on second thought NO PLEASE DONT DO THAt

Soon to be the wealthiest and most powerful, and without invading or bombing half the planet. You love to see it.

Also worth noting that of thousands of qigong groups in China, it was Li Hongzhi’s decision to make his group a target by taking an openly confrontational stance against the government. He was somehow hoping to intimidate the authorities in some ill-conceived power grab, it didn’t work out, commence violins. He put his followers at risk, of course, while he’s got a cushy compound in New York. Scumbag.

Don’t judge me, I can’t help it, man! It’s this uncontrollable need for daddy’s approval. Good heavens your state department-approved screeching was a lot more entertaining to read yester day when it was couched in poorly writ ten free v er s e Anyway here’s a certified non-bootlicking honorable American;