a rather childish 'shortcut' phrase that cuts through so much that is cant and vanity..
Even if the older i get i realise the constructed cultural cant and vanity is at the root of everything.
But 'everything' to someone marooned on this sceptic shopping aisle (i was endlessly world travelling gypsy for 20 years from age 18 so i know what i say.... but words are nothing, when one is forced to act - being a 'parent' means NO MATTER WHAT one thinks...stay aside the kid after parental separation....hence marooned, one is noty really as one has no choice... but i do now !!!! freedom...!)
REAL European society (not the internet version ALL my twattish friends are obsessed with) - where German women fuck like rabbits on top quality marching powder... Portuguese have a personal honour code i find unfindable elsewhere,...the greatest writer of decades Austrian, Bernhard, is required to 'nestbeschmutz' (piss) on everything.. for good enlightenement reasons... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nestbeschmutzer
And Primo Levi rightful god (espesh his non Holocaust fab books on just observing others in their trades)
is complex but more 'good' than bad...
But then we have yankee land... some of the very greatest culture ever. To Kill a Mockingbird... fucking lifechanging, unless you are a cynical silly Brit...
But such a complex place even with a lifetime partly 'studying' it... far too many extremes - from the 'life' sentences handed out of 999 years - a tad extreme and rather silly unless the techno nutjobs are right, whereas Norway gave their mass murderer the max, 16... and in Nils Christie's magnificent Suitable Amount of Crime, the societal construct of 'crime', is so beautifully explained
Anyway, Yankyland... one genius - top genius of them all, ever Bette... more than a genius, and i so despair of the www moaning fest... the greatest actor of all times - i cant bear 'actors' but one... transcended that whole thing.. just Queened over the true importance of her position in influence...
Anyway .. theres me, having arguably 'invented' shared parenting in mid 00s... (i shat blood - literally, to get it reformed)
And my little cultural journey .. exploring as sort of critic, i find so many films dull and neurotic - especially the last 20 years... now and again it is necessary to go back to when they were real.. or far more so, and had an UNcynical good message.
last night sick of everyone's cant and vanity .. everyone... dial up a Bet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(1952_film)
simply astoundingly good... and shows up - my god UK (establishment) spent decades fighting the ANTI sexist, ANTI misogynist concept of either parent can do just as good a job...I smugly did rather a lot to forward.....
and fuck me - Bette and her ex have alternate SIX MONTH lives with their lass so 'naturally in that film one assumes that it was quite the accepted normal cultural construct even by 52...
Life is full of surprises, and bugger me a lot of history seems to have been rewritten, too...
which i suppose means it is all such a game... but some things DO matter...
