STOP PRESS Tonight (Monday 7 Oct.) only Paddy 0′Cearmada
in a robust discussion on Art + Censorship, following the banning of artist Paul Yore’s work at last week’s Sydney Contemporary – with Orwell on the theme. FREE ADMISSION. 730 for 8pm. Evening Star, corner York and Cecil Streets, South Melbourne (Beautiful meals and drinks at fair prices)
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Not Errol this week but Mark Twain
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society”
THIS PAST WEEK in Passive Complicity
Corridors of Power by Sir Bertram Postule continues this week.
Who else but Ira Maine would write “‘This day thou shalt be with me in Paradise’, she had whispered as Bodium Flint passed her coquettish window”? See what this is all about in the ongoing saga that is Endette Hall
Tarquin O’Flaherty brought us two further instalments of ‘Man as Machine’. – here and here In the first he concluded that enclosure “not only controlled the movement of animals; it also controlled and guided people. Principally, it guided them into slums, poverty, disease and destitution. William Cobbett didn’t like it at all.” He discusses this in more detail in the second part.
Cecil Poole wrote “It seems as though multiculturalism is alive in so many communities (in the US), yet there is concurrently a form of taboo that prevents discussion of it. Maybe it is the lack of discussion and analysis that allows this form of mulitculturalism the freedom to work so well.” In a piece titled Persian Food – a couple of recipes included
Saturday’s MDFF, has a number of facets seminal to Passive Complicity’s reason for being. Government secrecy, profit making from refugees – not just “people smugglers”, and the ways ‘do-gooders’ can exacerbate the problems they are addressing among others. By Antony Loewenstein, first published in The Guardian Wednesday 2 October 2013
Our poetry editor, Ira Maine said, “I FEEL THE INCLUSION OF A MODICUM OF VULGARITY TO BE ESSENTIAL.” His choice for Poetry Sunday reflected that feeling.
And, dear reader, please feel free to add comments about this and any of our postings.
Regards
Cecil Poole