- Sep 22, 2013
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Does capitalism-formalism inspire you to think about the 'mechanics' of human aesthetics?
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"During the Holocaust [World War II], countless Jews were 'interned' in concentration-camps where they were hapless/helpless 'witnesses' to the absolute barbarity of Nazi Germany. In one of these 'death-camps,' there was nightly walks by the Jewish prisoners while German soldiers were engaging in romance and intercourse with female German nurses and prostitutes in the villas/houses/mansions in the camp-areas. Meanwhile, the Jewish prisoners forced to walk around in the cold dark night were harassed by the Nazis patrolling them outside."
"One Jewish prisoner named Eli commented that if the Jews are sterilized/exterminated by the Holocaust, people might comment that the 'New World Order' envisioned by Adolf Hitler would characterize these 'sex-houses' in Nazi death-camps during the forced Jewish prisoner-walks in cold nights with harassment as 'towers' of German pride/sentiment. Eli suggested that this form of contrast between abject cruelty and evil neglect of Jewish emotions during the event of blithe/apathetic Germans engaging in sex right in the death-camps would effectively sterilize the Jewish mind, perhaps creating a new form of murder --- one of soul-light extinguishing."
"Eli decided to defy such base evil by creating chalk-pencil drawings of special morality-symbolic caricatures of dollar-signs wrapped by wicked serpents from hell and debased Jewish postmen forced to wander around death-camps nude while singing. Eli wanted his art to transcend this sort of death-camp rendition of 'survival-of-the-fittest.' After all, the Nazis had afforded this special death-camp with drawing supplies to keep the Jewish prisoners 'smiling'."
"Well, Eli decided to create one special drawing to save the Jewish imagination. This was a drawing of a beautiful Jewish woman named Mara. This fictional Jewish woman would serve as a 'survival-muse' for the prisoners in the death-camp. Eli showed his drawing of Mara to the other prisoners and told them that if Jews endured this 'sterilization-scheme' of the Nazis, they would one day resurrect as a people committed to the flowery of commercial aesthetics."
"Eli saw that the Nazis lit some grey candles in one of the camp-cabins during a special night which a prominent Nazi official was visiting. At this cabin, Eli was staring at his drawing of Mara, and one of the German prostitutes named Elka who happened to be walking by noticed Eli's drawing and told him it was surprisingly lovely. Elka explained that art always 'lifts the mind' and if the Jews managed to somehow 'endure' this 'German morality-examination' that she would invite Eli to her new house in Berlin so they could discuss more about Eli's art. Eli was shocked that Elka, who otherwise engaged in promiscuous intercourse with Nazi soldiers while Jewish prisoners at that death-camp were tortured/harassed/killed was suddenly interested in Eli's drawing of Mara. Eli wondered if this was some kind of 'dark-side' rendition of a commercial 'art museum' (or even Underworld Bazaar!)."
"Eli was a Holocaust survivor and moved to America and kept his drawing of Mara which lifted the spirits of the Jews in the death-camp. His son bought him a home-computer, which Eli used to record poems about art and creativity during the horrible ordeal of the Holocaust. During his time on the computer, Eli wondered what would've happened if he had visited that German prostitute Elka at the death-camp who seemed rather intrigued by his drawing of Mara. Eli wrote on his computer, 'Life is a market, a market of affairs, and the sirens/angels of vitality signal to our moral sense of consumption'. Eli wondered if this was a new form of 'capitalism-intellectualism'."
"Who's to say if Nazism can be likened more to cold Communism or rather evil Capitalism. Whatever happened, it was certainly a sort of 'survivalism' oriented profit for the cruel and the depravity who were 'resource-bereft.' I don't think you can compare the Third Reich to Wall Street, but you have to wonder if the 'flow of souls' in the Nazi death-camps was not unlike the motion of countless capitalism brokers in NYC who keep the 'flesh-and-bone machine' of life functioning. As I work on my computer and notice the 'network/net' of connection-promoting computers in this new age, I wonder if profit-consciousness introduces humanity to the presence of a 'fertility-leviathan' (or danger-silo!). Civilization may require creative-thinking by new kinds of 'desert-imagineers' such as Lawrence of Arabia(!)." -ELI [Diary Entry, Summer]
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"During the Holocaust [World War II], countless Jews were 'interned' in concentration-camps where they were hapless/helpless 'witnesses' to the absolute barbarity of Nazi Germany. In one of these 'death-camps,' there was nightly walks by the Jewish prisoners while German soldiers were engaging in romance and intercourse with female German nurses and prostitutes in the villas/houses/mansions in the camp-areas. Meanwhile, the Jewish prisoners forced to walk around in the cold dark night were harassed by the Nazis patrolling them outside."
"One Jewish prisoner named Eli commented that if the Jews are sterilized/exterminated by the Holocaust, people might comment that the 'New World Order' envisioned by Adolf Hitler would characterize these 'sex-houses' in Nazi death-camps during the forced Jewish prisoner-walks in cold nights with harassment as 'towers' of German pride/sentiment. Eli suggested that this form of contrast between abject cruelty and evil neglect of Jewish emotions during the event of blithe/apathetic Germans engaging in sex right in the death-camps would effectively sterilize the Jewish mind, perhaps creating a new form of murder --- one of soul-light extinguishing."
"Eli decided to defy such base evil by creating chalk-pencil drawings of special morality-symbolic caricatures of dollar-signs wrapped by wicked serpents from hell and debased Jewish postmen forced to wander around death-camps nude while singing. Eli wanted his art to transcend this sort of death-camp rendition of 'survival-of-the-fittest.' After all, the Nazis had afforded this special death-camp with drawing supplies to keep the Jewish prisoners 'smiling'."
"Well, Eli decided to create one special drawing to save the Jewish imagination. This was a drawing of a beautiful Jewish woman named Mara. This fictional Jewish woman would serve as a 'survival-muse' for the prisoners in the death-camp. Eli showed his drawing of Mara to the other prisoners and told them that if Jews endured this 'sterilization-scheme' of the Nazis, they would one day resurrect as a people committed to the flowery of commercial aesthetics."
"Eli saw that the Nazis lit some grey candles in one of the camp-cabins during a special night which a prominent Nazi official was visiting. At this cabin, Eli was staring at his drawing of Mara, and one of the German prostitutes named Elka who happened to be walking by noticed Eli's drawing and told him it was surprisingly lovely. Elka explained that art always 'lifts the mind' and if the Jews managed to somehow 'endure' this 'German morality-examination' that she would invite Eli to her new house in Berlin so they could discuss more about Eli's art. Eli was shocked that Elka, who otherwise engaged in promiscuous intercourse with Nazi soldiers while Jewish prisoners at that death-camp were tortured/harassed/killed was suddenly interested in Eli's drawing of Mara. Eli wondered if this was some kind of 'dark-side' rendition of a commercial 'art museum' (or even Underworld Bazaar!)."
"Eli was a Holocaust survivor and moved to America and kept his drawing of Mara which lifted the spirits of the Jews in the death-camp. His son bought him a home-computer, which Eli used to record poems about art and creativity during the horrible ordeal of the Holocaust. During his time on the computer, Eli wondered what would've happened if he had visited that German prostitute Elka at the death-camp who seemed rather intrigued by his drawing of Mara. Eli wrote on his computer, 'Life is a market, a market of affairs, and the sirens/angels of vitality signal to our moral sense of consumption'. Eli wondered if this was a new form of 'capitalism-intellectualism'."
"Who's to say if Nazism can be likened more to cold Communism or rather evil Capitalism. Whatever happened, it was certainly a sort of 'survivalism' oriented profit for the cruel and the depravity who were 'resource-bereft.' I don't think you can compare the Third Reich to Wall Street, but you have to wonder if the 'flow of souls' in the Nazi death-camps was not unlike the motion of countless capitalism brokers in NYC who keep the 'flesh-and-bone machine' of life functioning. As I work on my computer and notice the 'network/net' of connection-promoting computers in this new age, I wonder if profit-consciousness introduces humanity to the presence of a 'fertility-leviathan' (or danger-silo!). Civilization may require creative-thinking by new kinds of 'desert-imagineers' such as Lawrence of Arabia(!)." -ELI [Diary Entry, Summer]
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