George Takei is Awesome

[mike]

First of all, was that recent Mike ? Hope you're doing ok mate, if it wasn't recent, ignore.

About 8 years ago i guess, rare form of juvenile arthritis, My immune system thinks my cartiladge is baaaaad and is trying to destroy it. Its being managed by my specialist, and i have prescription painkillers for the odd times it gets away on me

All things considered I'm fine , the internet is a portal to the world, and i have a number of online projects to keep me busy

Thanks for the kind sentiments though, much appreciated

 

[boomerang]

Well--We have in America a relatively small but ultra hardcore faction who seem bent on undoing all liberalizing tendencies of western civilization since at least the 1960's. One such acquaintance of mine sternly informed me that The Enlightenment was a very bad thing for society. I thought he was kidding at first and then realized he is dead serious and not alone in such attitudes. Presumably, a nice stable theocracy, or at the very least a monarchy ruled by "the anointed" holds a kind of retrograde appeal for many. That pesky Rennaissance and its mind expanding art--who needs it?

 

[Ezechiel]

Well--We have in America a relatively small but ultra hardcore faction who seem bent on undoing all liberalizing tendencies of western civilization since at least the 1960's. One such acquaintance of mine sternly informed me that The Enlightenment was a very bad thing for society. I thought he was kidding at first and then realized he is dead serious and not alone in such attitudes. Presumably, a nice stable theocracy, or at the very least a monarchy ruled by "the anointed" holds a kind of retrograde appeal for many. That pesky Rennaissance and its mind expanding art--who needs it?

This 1930 american painting pretty much captures the essence. Notice the rigidity, the servient wife posing behind the master of the house. The menacing fork guarding against ideas that could threaten their way of life LOL

American Gothic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wood entered the painting in a competition at the Art Institute of Chicago. The judges deemed it a "comic valentine," but a museum patron convinced them to award the painting the bronze medal and $300 cash prize. The patron also convinced the Art Institute to buy the painting, which remains there today.[3] The image soon began to be reproduced in newspapers, first by the Chicago Evening Post and then in New York, Boston, Kansas City, and Indianapolis. However, Wood received a backlash when the image finally appeared in the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Iowans were furious at their depiction as "pinched, grim-faced, puritanical Bible-thumpers".[4] One farmwife threatened to bite Wood's ear off. Wood protested that he had not painted a caricature of Iowans but a depiction of Americans. Nan, apparently embarrassed at being depicted as the wife of someone twice her age, began telling people that the painting was of a man and his daughter,[2] which Grant seems to confirm in a letter written by him to a Mrs. Nellie Sudduth in 1941.[5]

 

[dyingsun]

The man fucking rules