z6 -> RE: Picasso, Segovia, Serranito, Manitas (Oct. 14 2012 22:50:40)
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Barkell, you're probably spot on about the ethnic group thing but, from what I've seen, a perceived ethnic 'difference' seems to take it more easily to a different level. Indeed, in Mexico, it is a perceived ethnic difference that makes thoughtless cruelty socially acceptable so fast, without so many impediments. Yes, people are people, this is not a race or ethnic thing for sure, it's a species-wide phenomenon, as is kindness. But a short neck, or black hair or eyes, or a dark skin seems to give more license, a 'perceived shared' difference at least. I once met an Irish protestant that not only hated catholics, he felt it his duty to make it his life's work to inform all and sundry of his view. When I asked him how he could tell the difference between a catholic and a protestant, he told me 'they' had different ears. He was vague when I asked him to define different. So, in a country with no black people, or indiginous people, no muslims, no jews, no Thais or Chinese. No people that look 'different' at all, every one as white as a sheet, only the odd ginger adding a little colour, they can simply create a physical difference and tacitly agree that it exists, and they're all Christians let's not forget. God-fearing to a man. Again, a very friendly place but a place where violence can quickly ensue at cultural crossroads (especially when drunk in the pub). Richard, I enjoyed your story. I wrote a reply but I'm a complete dimwit and lost it. Ruphus, you put me in mind of Tom Wolf's Painted Word. Estebanana: Camouflage? That is cool. Luckily, nobody actually asked him to design camouflage though. Remember, he thought he was creating a painting or a style of painting. God knows, he spent long enough trying to 'find' styles. (I always wonder what poor bastrd he stole cubism from, or is that known art history). His camouflage might have been the camouflage equivalent of fishbones on a plate. When I hear such things, and they are interesting, I am reminded of people telling me that Hendrix could play the guitar with his d i c k. Ya reckon Pablo called up the army and asked them to come look at his camouflage designs? I never liked Picasso (I don't hate his output either) but didn't realise he was a fraud until I visited a gallery in Barcelona that has lots of his 'early stuff, man'. Good for him, but he was a kid-on merchant. Maybe the best. I hear the designs he drew on his underwear were used in the design of the new Cray Supercomputer? He was a genius. Did I tell you about what I heard Hendrix could do? My guess is that the wife of some general first suggested the application, a bunch of dimwit generals then toyed with the idea until a scientist noticed it was worth a go; and added it to the not insignificant steps they had already taken in camouflage technology since the Scots painted their bums blue and wondered why they lost*. They could also use Picasso's idea when they get round to teleportation. They can break up our bodies, just like a cubist painting, and reassemble them in The Andromeda galaxy. How much for that napkin he wiped his nose with? *This only happns in movies, by the way.
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