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The Degenerates

Frank Dissent is Not Betrayal but rather, it's exact opposite

What then is the purpose of the Audience?

Politicians masquerading as pornographers masquerading as artists and philosophers and visionaries, who see below the surface into something much deeper, richer and so much purer.  The masks we wear are not masks at all.  We are what we project.   We are what we see.  We can pretend we are something else, something perhaps better,  perhaps morally justified,  but such things are really nothing more than the effects of the drugs we take ...  and the drugs are consumerism and materialism.  There is no longer a need to warn America of it's impending collapse; for the collapse has already occurred.  We just haven't pulled our heads out from the sand yet. It is not the Degenerates that you have to fear; rather, it is your definition of deviance that should scare you.  Hitler is not the enemy.  Hitler was and remains a projection of the people's fears.   Look around you.  Hitler exists today.  Seeking to Feed Fish to Fish.

 

(L)  When the Drugs wore off by M&C Magoski
(R)  Before Hitler Came to Power featuring the The Mulato by Emil Nolde

Is it fitting that the artwork we chose for this piece was by Emil Nolde?  Emil himself was a member of the Natzi Party and yet his work was branded Degenerate by the Party and over 1000 of his pieces was removed from circulation; and further, he was banned from producing any art. Art is not rhetoric. Your politics are your politics.  You must come to your own conclusions and face your own prejudices.  I cannot be responsible for your ethical conduct or your moral misconduct.  I can only hold my own leash.

(L) (Degenerate) Art is the Agreed Upon Victim by M&C Magoski
(R) Enlightened Thinkers are Degenerate by M&C Magoski

(L) Can I Help You by M&C Magoski
(R) Love Hurts, Lonely is a Man without Love by M&C Magoski

Oh My Darling, Tell Me When

"We think of our culture as mature because it tolerates diversity, and we consider barbarians those members of our culture who do not. And that's that. Otherwise, it would be as if we decided, if there were still cannibals in some corner of the world, that we should go off and eat them, because that would teach them a lesson."
-Umberto Eco, Turning Back the Clock, p.245

And to that I respond

Choice is the difference between enlightenment and entertainment.  That we can 'choose'  how the words and actions of others effect and affect our own path through Life, clearly indicates where each of stands on the evolutionary ladder.

The Thorns Was Not My Idea

nor was it the reason the Song was written either ....

            We found this bit of 'grafitti' on a wall in Amsterdam, 

Modern culture gives way to historic rituals, so engraved in our psyches that I question the very notion of what purpose our ability to individually reason and arrive at unique conclusions.  We humans tend to think individually only when the collective thought of our culture cannot satisfy the natural need of acceptance.  Wordsmith's (like Eco) clearly conceal their own true selves within the beauty of their lavish and carefully constructed texts.  The philosopher that relies on Human sense for interpretation is in fact no philosopher at all; but rather, a partner with the economic and power elite that determine what the history of a culture will be.

Thus, I say to you,

Examine your own consciousness and then shoulder your own rsponsibilities.

Cuando Cuando Cuando

"Habla espanol?"

If you happen to be in our studio, and you hear this song playing, you must Samba (or at the least, attempt your best interpretive dance move that expresses your inner beings true feelings about this activity we call Life. 

• Candace and I are going to find this woman and do a photo shoot with her.