PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
We keep hearing how the upcoming election will set the course for the future of America. And every day that curse or prediction appears to be true.
On July, 2nd, 1816, At dawn, the French frigate Medusa, bound for the Senegalese port colony of Saint Louis under the command of the incompetent royalist captain Hugo de Chaumareys. One hundred and forty-seven men and one woman were herded onto a makeshift raft. Mayhem, mutiny and murder ensued. Fifteen survived.
The artist Géricault was emblematic of a period in art that depicted extremes of emotion, called Romanticism.
His masterful depiction of the survivors of the ship wreck, the Medusa, applies to the pessimism, and optimism, surrounding this election.
At the back, pessimists like myself, who see America's best days behind us, and at the front, those who see rescue on the horizon.
On July, 2nd, 1816, At dawn, the French frigate Medusa, bound for the Senegalese port colony of Saint Louis under the command of the incompetent royalist captain Hugo de Chaumareys. One hundred and forty-seven men and one woman were herded onto a makeshift raft. Mayhem, mutiny and murder ensued. Fifteen survived.
The artist Géricault was emblematic of a period in art that depicted extremes of emotion, called Romanticism.
His masterful depiction of the survivors of the ship wreck, the Medusa, applies to the pessimism, and optimism, surrounding this election.
At the back, pessimists like myself, who see America's best days behind us, and at the front, those who see rescue on the horizon.