I am not all that comfortable with the conclusions and endorsements the PAM creatures might arrive at with the image of Caravaggio’s “Conversion of Saint Paul” that you have provided. I mean it seems that we are just a step away from celebrating actual animal husbandry for grammar school children.
Years ago Portland held some garbage art-around-town fest that seemed to be centered in the Park Blocks. As a Park Ranger I was obligated to keep tally of the public urination or discarded needle count or some such. Back then the "creativity" was tilted more towards sexual depravity than political inanity. As best I recall.
What I did tally was that children were drawn to the austere figure of The Great Emancipator. Why? That long mopey son-of-a-bitch has always been my favorite, but then noir is me. Why did the children drift over to group and lick popsicles, draw 4-square and hopscotch in chalk, and climb on to the plinth, and generally loiter at his feet? Warm feelz and fuzzies were everywhere in the competitive bizarreness furnished forth by the active addlepated artist class of Portland.
Well, I can say this, for cowardice, betrayal of tradition, loathing of America and its white citizenry the arts crowd are not in the same league as the Oregon Historical Society.
Fite Waters did a fine job on his Lincoln. About 30 years ago a woman I was seeing had returned to school (PSU) and took a class conducted by an acolyte of Michael Parenti, an influential American political scientist who is a hero to both Castro and Barbara Lee. The woman I was seeing had graduated high school in 1967.
During that semester of her return to school she learned that Lincoln had been a racist. If you really understood what he wrote and thought there really wasn't that much difference between Lincoln and Jeff Davis. Her instruction had a seasoning of Zinn too..
Lincoln's world nearly collapsed with the death of his son. Yet, he drove a hard and uncompromising war that killed, what 600,000 mother's sons? He would not stop that train short of its destination. He was then murdered for his work. The haunted mind and heart caught in that long bodied man's statue is magnetic. Except of course for Portland's artistic, intellectual, and philosophic elite.
History is less subjective than art and facts are objective. Dead men are facts. We've got a responsibility to facts. The Historical Society did not forget its responsibility, it altered its facts. PAM? They'll never know themselves so it is unfair to ask that they know the community
. . . The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I tried to find a link to WaPo or the NYT, CNN or anyone not a rightist website. Well I did find one at Yahoo. Anyhow, they are still at it:
Really sad.
I am not all that comfortable with the conclusions and endorsements the PAM creatures might arrive at with the image of Caravaggio’s “Conversion of Saint Paul” that you have provided. I mean it seems that we are just a step away from celebrating actual animal husbandry for grammar school children.
Years ago Portland held some garbage art-around-town fest that seemed to be centered in the Park Blocks. As a Park Ranger I was obligated to keep tally of the public urination or discarded needle count or some such. Back then the "creativity" was tilted more towards sexual depravity than political inanity. As best I recall.
What I did tally was that children were drawn to the austere figure of The Great Emancipator. Why? That long mopey son-of-a-bitch has always been my favorite, but then noir is me. Why did the children drift over to group and lick popsicles, draw 4-square and hopscotch in chalk, and climb on to the plinth, and generally loiter at his feet? Warm feelz and fuzzies were everywhere in the competitive bizarreness furnished forth by the active addlepated artist class of Portland.
Well, I can say this, for cowardice, betrayal of tradition, loathing of America and its white citizenry the arts crowd are not in the same league as the Oregon Historical Society.
Fite Waters did a fine job on his Lincoln. About 30 years ago a woman I was seeing had returned to school (PSU) and took a class conducted by an acolyte of Michael Parenti, an influential American political scientist who is a hero to both Castro and Barbara Lee. The woman I was seeing had graduated high school in 1967.
During that semester of her return to school she learned that Lincoln had been a racist. If you really understood what he wrote and thought there really wasn't that much difference between Lincoln and Jeff Davis. Her instruction had a seasoning of Zinn too..
Lincoln's world nearly collapsed with the death of his son. Yet, he drove a hard and uncompromising war that killed, what 600,000 mother's sons? He would not stop that train short of its destination. He was then murdered for his work. The haunted mind and heart caught in that long bodied man's statue is magnetic. Except of course for Portland's artistic, intellectual, and philosophic elite.
History is less subjective than art and facts are objective. Dead men are facts. We've got a responsibility to facts. The Historical Society did not forget its responsibility, it altered its facts. PAM? They'll never know themselves so it is unfair to ask that they know the community
. . . The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
I tried to find a link to WaPo or the NYT, CNN or anyone not a rightist website. Well I did find one at Yahoo. Anyhow, they are still at it:
https://nypost.com/2022/06/29/cornell-removes-gettysburg-address-abraham-lincoln-bust-from-library/
Thank you