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Jun 9, 2023Liked by Yasha Levine

I meant to comment here a while back, but time has flown as it is wont to do. I just have two points. For one, these are such important subjects, the survival of the human race, as well as the poor belieuguered critters we are dragging down with us is, that it's hard to understand how no one is shouting it from the rooftops and the street corners. Oh well. Second, I've always been drawn to the centaur and the chimera as a visual metaphor for human dual nature, and made images of these beings as long as I can remember.. I don't think this website will let me post an image, but here as a link to some of these pics if you are interested.

https://dmitrymyaskovskyart.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/new-and-available/

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May 18, 2023Liked by Yasha Levine

Great show. I haven't watched Zardoz for over 20 years but I dress just like that with a red loincloth, leather boots, and ponytail all the time.

Just a note if you liked Zardoz, as wonderfully surreal as it is, you should check out John Boorman's first American film called Point Blank. It's a crime noir revenge film with a similar surreal vibe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3gj5_6DHRY

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Great conversation. I find myself vacillating between some of these positions. I grew up around some of the late 60 and early 70s ideas discussed here and like them a lot. I'll admit to even liking some of the less workable communes that came out of these ideas, and mostly didn't last. But as mentioned, so many of these interesting movements that struggled with the realities of being embodied within a world of, rather obvious, limitations seem to end up on the absurd right wing or in some other very odd and unworkable ideological system. By comparison the communist parties that existed outside of socialist nations were at least, with a few exceptions, easy to understand, if not always agree with. My small experience suggest that in my life span of 50+ years there was never a time when the USSR or PRC had much of a supportive message/practice for the left outside their own borders. I'm guessing they had very little to offer their own citizens as well. The PRC and DPRK even went as far outing leftists in nations, like the ROK, where leftist parties were illegal. So much for solidarity.

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