Beautifully edited account of Condolezza Rice and her Russian counter-part, sneaking out of The Nutcrack to see something more to her taste while on a state visit to Russia.
The scene occurs (in the above link) and about halfway through the part 1 of the BBC documentary "Putin and the West" - there's amazing footage in almost every scene.
I was re-watching it, because I remembered it featuring terrifying footage of Chechen terrorists seizing control of the Dubrovka Theater in 2002. But when I has a hard time finding those actual scenes, I just googled it and found even more terrifying footage, so that's down here:
Here's E. Michael Jones describing "Black Swan" as Harvardified-Reichian-Bizarro-Calvinist-Jewish-Capitalist attack on the counter-revolutionary capacities of Classical Ballet, which flourished in Russia where the courtly culture of France (as we observed in the executioner) sought shelter in the aftermath of the Revolution.
"The fiery accents imparted to [David's] divine lyre still resound in all parts of the world after thirty centuries. The synagogue preserved the Psalms; the Church hastened to adopt them. The poetry of all Christian nations has laid hold of them, and for more than three centuries the sun has never ceased to shine on churches whose vaults resound to their sacred hymns. they are sung in Rome, Geneva, Madrid, London, Quebec, Quito, Moscow, Peking, and Botany Bay; they are whisperedin Japan."
- De Maistre - The Executioner
(Chapter XIV Problems of Arabian Culture: Historic Pseudomorphoses), Spengler writes "By historical pseudomorphosis" I propose to designate those cases where an older alien Culture lies so massively over the land that a young Culture cannot get its breath and fails not only to achieve pure and specific enough forms . . . All that wells up from the depths of the young soul is caste in old molds, young feelings stiffen in senile practices, and instead of expanding its own creative power , it can only hate the distant power with a hate that grows to be monstrous. -Spengler (268)
Rev. a. W. Nix The Black Diamond Express to Hell
. . . world time is also cavern-like. Hence comes the thoroughly Magian Certainty that everything has "a" time, from the origins of the Savior, whose hour stood written in ancient texts, to the smallest detail of the everyday, in which Faustian hurry would be meaningless and unimaginable . . . early-Magian astrology, presupposes that all things are written down in the stars and that the scientifically calculable course of the planets authorizes conclusions as to the course of earthly things.
Bessie Jones with the Georgia Island Singers - Sign of the Judgement -
. . . offers a personality test - the likes of which is sometimes the object of quite a bit of paranoid and anti-Semetic speculation. (we'll get to that.)
But I really think we should try to make our own.
Here are some that I thought were pretty cool, for very different reasons.
Relevant to Michael E. Jones (week 2) who identifies horror films of the 70's and 80's as unconscious cultural assertion of the moral order in response to the excesses of the sexual revolution.
