Shakespeare has transformed the story of Romeo and Juliet, a story about some selfish families and selfish teenagers in a work of art.
Caravaggio transformed whores and beggars into saints.
Beethoven transform his pain caused by unshared love into musical piece 'Fur Elise'
Great artists transform the ugly into beautiful, dirt into ceramic and colors on canvas. Stones into sculptures.
Noise into to melody.
Who make the reverse is not an artist.
In 276AD, emperor Diocletian split the Roman empire in 2 for better management.
Now the western empire US and EU are facing the same problems as Romans in 276AD: barbarians at the border in Ukraine, succession crisis in US, decline of traditional religious beliefs.
Will the western alliance split? Will the western Europe asume leadership for realtion with Russia and Middle East ?
It happened before when western countries allied to contain autocrats who become too powerful like Lou's 14, Carol 5, and Napoleon.
But what it will be with US ?
They are still isolated geographically by 2 oceans, Mexico is still a problem but not big enough
Usually the civil war in Rome appeared when it was safety at the border, leadership was weak, there was enough money to loot for paying legionnaires.
Without rejuvenation of political class, the people will be attry towards extremist politics
Am ascultat un Podcast cu Damian Anfile despre români
https://youtu.be/HJp74HFNwZ4?si=Ugwcrdg2n-zdAY1c
Și se pare că nici un om educat și cu studii în teologie că domnia sa nu a înțeles semnificația baladei Miorița.
In primul rând Miorița este precreștină, discuția cu animalele, comuniunea om natură, lipsa lui Dumnezeu indica faptul că balada își are originile din timpurile când se practică șamanismul in zona României.
Balada este o pregătire pentru moarte, spune ce trebuie făcut și rânduit după moartea eroului
O atitudine asemănătoare întâlnim la samurai, care erau pregătiți în orice moment să moară.
Atitudinea asta se mai păstrează în artele marțiale japoneze unde participanții sunt îmbrăcați în alb, culoarea de doliu in orientul îndepărtat.
Orice s-ar spune samuraii nu s-au predat niciodată fără lupta. Și nu cred că ciobănașul mioritic se va fi predat fără lupta resemnat.
Din contră pregatindu-se sa moarta a luptat și cu mai mult curaj.
Faptul că noi nu mai înțelegem această balada a Mioriței arată că ne-am îndepărtat de oamenii care au creat-o și că de fapt ea nu ne mai reprezintă.
I just found out that Matthew Perry actor who played Chandler Bing in "Friends" series just died in a hot tub.
Usually I don't buy biographies of actors, but now I did.
The book is published one year before he is dead, so it is like a confession .
A confession of an actor before the public.
He was very affected by separation of his parents.
He was a cry baby and doctors in their wisdom prescribed him, fenobarbital.
He started to drink at an young age.
At 15 yr he left the house of his mother in Canada to join his father in California.
His father was drinking 5 glasses of vodka daily but he kept on acting.
He followed in his father's steps, he exceeded his father in acting career and in drinking
It seems that he drunk when he got anxious.
One day after a skyjet accident, one doctor prescribed him Oxycotin, he felt better.
The doctor gave him 40 pills.
He was hooked, he entered and exited numerous rehabilitation clinics for opioids and alcohol.
At the end he couldn't even smoke because of an ephizema.
I wonder how effective the rehabilitation clinics are if a guy who wants to rehabilitate and has money for it, relapses.
But the opioids worked slowly for Matthew destruction, they slowed his bowel movement, he was constipated, his colon burst open, he got septicemy. He was 2 weeks in coma.
He said that only thing that kept him afloat was his work as an actor, and expecially work at Friends series.
The tight knit, team of actors and Screenplayers acted like a surogate family who gave him attention and recognition that need it.
I rewatch now the series and try to find a hint about his struggles in his acting but I can't find anything.
Overall it is good book especially for those who battle addiction and have emotional problems.
At start of modern era, gun powder weapons were hard to handle so specialists had to be hired. So the mercenary armies replaced the levy.
In the search to make weapons more affordable, they were improved till they were easily used by anyone who can breathe.
Then they were mass produced and used by conscript armies with little training.
At the end of cold war, the weapons became smarter, but not really usable by any conscript. So contract soldiers were preferred.
Next step will be to make these new weapons usable by any conscript, and they to do it is to use artificial intelligence.
This will democratize the violence.
Smaller actors will buy ready made solutions, armed their conscripts and attack big actors who use legacy system.
A drone with a smart algoieill trick air defenses, sneak into an airport and damage a plane.
This is seen in Ukraine war very often.
The capital organises labour, labour transfers and transforms resources.
Suppose you have 1 million $, and you want to build a house.
The one million doesn't transforms overnight in a house.
You have to pay labourers who will dig the dirt. Fire bricks, and lay the bricks.
Labour better is organized the more efficient it is, and more expensive it is
A construction company is more expensive than daily labourers but is more efficient.
