I wonder what made him that way. Nature vs nurture, mental health, or what.
No less badass though
Traffic jam due to weather conditions in Rannoch Moor, Scotland
[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/UaH9jd.jpg[/IMG]
[url]https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10156073738658599[/url]
Jesus, it looks like a glacier.
[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;53067973]"Frankly I had enjoyed the war."
Absolute top class madlad[/QUOTE]
Ironically, his shortened family name (Carton) means cardboard in french :v:
[video=youtube;XXKh50tgnGw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXKh50tgnGw[/video]
Okay this is something a bit different. Music doesn't usually pop up here but the story behind this absolute [I]masterpiece[/I] is interesting even if you're not into Jazz.
The album was recorded by artist Ryo Fukui, who at the age of 22 taught himself Piano and by the age of 25 had released his first Jazz album (Scenery, 1976). He continued producing up to his death while owning a Jazz bar in northern Japan.
"My Favourite Tune" was recorded in June 1994 and until November 2017 was completely lost to the ether. After a 2 long year search for the album and being close to giving up, somebody contacted the above user and had found it! They had contacted his widow, Yasuko, who was able to give it for the world to share. Unfortunately Ryo is deceased now, but his work is absolutely [I]phenomenal[/I] and honestly I suggest giving it the chance. Every song is a work of art.
[QUOTE=maniacykt;53076015][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/1VQa2Kh.jpg[/IMG]
Memorial in Syria, commemorates Russian volunteer fighters that fought in there[/QUOTE]
Noticed that’s a very common theme in Soviet/Russian sculpture. Rather than a glorious parading group of soldiers it’s the “ideal man” standing tall. I really like it
That's strange, because the soviets didn't have the cultural image of the heroic individual, since it's antethetical to the core idea of the unjust nature of higherarchy. Yet that's what their statues depict.
[t]https://thevieweast.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/treptow.jpg[/t]
Though i know that this one was intended to represent the workers as a class, so maybe that's what it is
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/The_Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;53076845]That's strange, because the soviets didn't have the cultural image of the heroic individual, since it's antethetical to the core idea of the unjust nature of higherarchy. Yet that's what their statues depict.
[t]https://thevieweast.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/treptow.jpg[/t]
Though i know that this one was intended to represent the workers as a class, so maybe that's what it is
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/The_Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman.jpg[/T][/QUOTE]
I think their ideology was subverted, the original idea was to have a decentralised with regional democratic councils, nearly instantly it became a centralised monster run by a series of dictatorial strongmen
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;53076804][video=youtube;v1urOM_YftI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1urOM_YftI[/video][/QUOTE]
Wrong
[quote]born of Belgian and Irish parents[/quote]
[QUOTE][video=youtube;u8tISSIxrjI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8tISSIxrjI[/video]
[video=youtube;3NfNqtyvyWU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NfNqtyvyWU[/video][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;53076845]That's strange, because the soviets didn't have the cultural image of the heroic individual, since it's antethetical to the core idea of the unjust nature of higherarchy. Yet that's what their statues depict.
[t]https://thevieweast.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/treptow.jpg[/t]
Though i know that this one was intended to represent the workers as a class, so maybe that's what it is
[T]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/The_Worker_and_Kolkhoz_Woman.jpg[/T][/QUOTE]
I worded it poorly. I mean a heroic “individual” that represents the “all”.
Example:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/e7Cn8WN.jpg[/t]
Also one of my favorite art pieces
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Grave_relief_of_Iulius_Baccus_R%C3%B6misch-Germanisches_Museum_Cologne.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Tombstone of the auxiliary foot soldier Caius Iulius Baccus, a Roman citizen from Lugdunum (Lyon, France). He died (probably still a soldier) at age 38 after 15 years' service. In view of his Gallic origin and incomplete service, he may have been a citizen from birth. His regiment was the Cohors II Thracum and he was still a miles (common soldier) when he died. Unlike most military tombstones, this one portrays the deceased out of uniform, in an informal pose, enjoying a cup of wine at home (which is presumably how his friends, who arranged the memorial, wished to remember him). Römisch-Germanisches Museum, Cologne, Germany[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;53077357]I think their ideology was subverted, the original idea was to have a decentralised with regional democratic councils, nearly instantly it became a centralised monster run by a series of dictatorial strongmen[/QUOTE]
No, i would say that marx's/engel's most fundamental claim is that the concept of hierarchies are a socially constructed idea, created by the Borgia to oppress the proletariat. As such, the eponymous commune was marx's idea of a utopia, as the tyranical social elements, primarily that of the inevitibly oppressive hierarchies, were erased, in favor of a flat society where everyone produces things according to their own interests, in service to the commune, and is in turn supported by the commune, to hypothetically let the nature of each individual fully flourish without interference or intervention of environmental forces/constraints.
However, value judgements are a form of hierarchy, as it sorts a given strata into a hierarchy ranging from most valuable to least valuable. This includes pricing/salaries, as those come loaded with a value judgement of the goods/services being priced, and the abilities of the person being paid and value of their product, which is why the commune is a flat structure without currency.
As such, the idea of an hero is incompatible with that idea, as the concept of a hero is he who best embodies the extracted/distilled meta values from all good people, which is obviously the highest regard you can give someone, which is value judgement saying "this person is good, be like this person", which puts them above others on the list of admirable people. And oh shit, there goes communism.
This is why communism always turns into a hellish dystopia by the way. If you can't render reasonable value judgements, every part of society just simultaneously explodes. Not the least of which is the basic concept of morality, since to identify that which is morale, you have to identify things that are more desirable than others with a given criteria. And as soon as you have a solid morale model based on value judgements of behaviors and ideas, you can apply them to people and then you're arrested for being a counter-revolutionary kulak, and executed on the spot, for attempting to subvert the state by re-introducing the systems of bougia oppression. And that's not some errant perversion of the ideas, that's actually a direct and logical consequence of marx's claims and suppositions.
[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;53077655]I worded it poorly. I mean a heroic “individual” that represents the “all”.
Example:
[t]https://i.imgur.com/e7Cn8WN.jpg[/t]
Also one of my favorite art pieces[/QUOTE]
I really like that.
The more i look at soviet art, the more i see the artists either consciously or even more likely, unconsciously trying to re-assert western values. Say in the statues representing "the ideal virtues of the collective" in a lone virtuous figure, or in this, with science and medicine acting as a tool to ward off death and chaos itself.
It's always remarkable to see those glimpses of good people through places and states like that. True morality is being good at great personal cost or danger. And it was not safe or easy to be a good person under the soviets, maoists, facists or any other such system.
[QUOTE=Trilby Harlow;53079050]No, i would say that marx's/engel's most fundamental claim is that the concept of hierarchies are a socially constructed idea, created by the Borgia to oppress the proletariat. As such, the eponymous commune was marx's idea of a utopia, as the tyranical social elements, primarily that of the inevitibly oppressive hierarchies, were erased, in favor of a flat society where everyone produces things according to their own interests, in service to the commune, and is in turn supported by the commune, to hypothetically let the nature of each individual fully flourish without interference or intervention of environmental forces/constraints.
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I'm not fully convinced that marx was opposed to "hierarchies" but rather that he was opposed to a social class hierarchy (along with other things like industrial capitalism robbing workers of agency and alienating them from their work, their bosses and their co workers - thats a tangent though)
I'll talk about anarchism because there are lots of anarchist systems and several have hierarchy without social class - Imo proving such a thing could exist would preclude the notion that hierarchy <=> social class hierarchy and therefore disprove that which is implied (through a couple of steps) that marx was opposed to the idea of holding people in high regard.
There could be (and were, if anthropologists can be believed) some anarchist system where someone can be be a leader and have authority, that authority isn't enforced, people aren't forced to follow. People follow because they choose to do so.
[quote=from debt the first 5000 years re: native american indian chief]such chiefs have no power to compel anyone to do anything they don't want to (hence north american indian chiefs' famous skill at oratory and powers of persuasion). As a result, they tended to give away far more than they received. Observers often remarked that in terms of personal possessions, a village chief was often the poorest man in the village, such was the pressure on him for constant supply of largesse.[/quote]
People choose to follow that leader because they want to, not because that leader declared their authority through violence or coercion or class. There is a hierarchy but its not based on social class, if the people stop following the leader then that person ceases to be leader - no class involved.
So hopefully this is sufficient to demonstrate that social class hierarchy (the thing marx opposed) isn't the same as hierarchy (or a social hierarchy).
Furthermore, for a more blatant example, Marx celebrated the "intelligentsia" which, while it's existence certainly implies some form of hierachy, wasn't considered a "proper" social class hierarchy. Even the intended (ie not in practice) soviet system (because my original post was about soviets and not marxists) of regional democratic councils implies a hierarchy, where people on the council speak for and represent a group of people.
tl;dr marx was opposed to social class hierarchy not necessarily all and any social (or otherwise) hierarchies. So, imo, celebration of heroes in a system without social class hierarchy is a-ok.
Not a big fan of generic radio pop, but the first minute of this music video is pretty neat.
[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZs1AHQBz24[/media]
[t]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/00/2b/dc/002bdc9e54793bfe71406bbd93dfb359--kowloon-walled-city-hongkong.jpg[/t]
Have some photo manipulated Kowloon.
[QUOTE=Agameofscones;53082891][t]https://i.pinimg.com/736x/00/2b/dc/002bdc9e54793bfe71406bbd93dfb359--kowloon-walled-city-hongkong.jpg[/t]
Have some photo manipulated Kowloon.[/QUOTE]
Looks like scifi greeble
I was in hongkong last year, it's kind of a shame the walled city is gone now, I'd have loved to have seen it. There's a really cool thing called the Mid Level Escalator, half city is built going up the side of a mountain and there's a series of big ass escalators, in the morning they go down, rest of the time they go up.
[t]https://mysuperspace.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/dsc_0381.jpg[/t]
[t]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/HK_Central_Escalators_Mosque_Street_%E7%99%BD%E5%AF%8C%E9%B4%BB_poster_Frank_Pak_A03_%E8%A1%9E%E5%9F%8E%E5%8D%80_Sept-2011.jpg[/t]
From there you can walk along some forest/temperate rainforesty paths up the mountain, several routes round the mountain looking over the city. Totally different atmosphere up there, a real escape
[t]https://scontent-lht6-1.cdninstagram.com/vp/d5cdf9d29fdc4094ecbc1585912c1d7f/5B1FA725/t51.2885-15/s750x750/sh0.08/e35/23498851_637908753264492_4180332016119578624_n.jpg[/t]
I stayed in the Chung King Mansion which is a ghetto sorta what I imagine Kowloon would be like (kowloon was probably worse tho), a mansion is like 12 skyscrapers all bundled together into 1. Each "block" has [URL="http://www.theculturemap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chungking-Mansions-Kowloon-Hong-Kong-840x560.jpeg"]2 elavators[/URL] which visit alternate floors (ie 1, 3, 5, 7 and 2, 4, 6, 8). There were huge queues when I was there. The bottom floors are a [URL="https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/ca/63/6d/chung-king-mansion.jpg"]big market[/URL]/labyrinth. [URL="https://www.instagram.com/p/BbiXzyQBGbE/"]Rooms (ft me)[/URL] were cheap though also the guy who ran the "guest house" was friendly and helpful, reassuring coz honestly I didn't feel mega safe there.
On the northside of the river there is also Mong Kok which is a load of markets, lots of them specialised also a night market which is apparently more traditional. Lots of market places had still live fish flopping around on the counters. In the windows of the skyscrapers around there are displays for shops, even several floors up and in the doorways are lists of numbers for shops/markets inside the buildings - sort of the [URL="https://cdn.theculturetrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/sai-yeung-choi-street-shutterstock_401531617.jpg"]stereotypical hong kong[/URL] people think of before they go.
Really great holiday, lovely place to go overall. Friendly, clean, safe and still foreign enough to be interesting. Hope yall don't mind the story but it's a pretty interesting place, not got my pictures off my camera yet, once I do I might post a couple here.
Did you go up victoria peak?
[vid]https://i.imgur.com/Lh8nJ3b.mp4[/vid]
[QUOTE=download;53088379][vid]https://i.imgur.com/Lh8nJ3b.mp4[/vid][/QUOTE]
Fuck, is it time for a new avatar?
[QUOTE=Trekintosh;53088787]Fuck, is it time for a new avatar?[/QUOTE]
You're the boss.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/mmLUhJj.gif[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Reds;53090329]You're the boss.
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/mmLUhJj.gif[/IMG][/QUOTE]
Hey, works great! :^)
[sp]i'll change it back if you actually want to use it[/sp]
I ersonally would have turned it sideways.
[QUOTE=Grenadiac;53090377]Hey, works great! :^)
[sp]i'll change it back if you actually want to use it[/sp][/QUOTE]
Nah, I like my current avatar. Besides, I made your previous avatar as well.
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