Arts Some Meditations
posted by August 14 at 13:43 PM
onFrom a recording of Charles Mingus’s Town Hall Concert:
This next composition was written when Eric Dolphy explained to me that there was something similar to concentration camps once in Germany now down South.. and the only difference between the electric barbed wires is they don’t have hot stoves and gas chambers to cook us in [the South] yet. So I wrote “Meditations” as to how to get some wire cutters to us before someone else gets guns to us.
The full title of the composition is “Meditations on a Pair of Wire Cutters.”
The long history of the struggle for human rights tells us no other story than this: What got to the oppressed first, wire cutters or guns? The history of the struggle (or the long march) also tells us that those who have the wire cutters tend to be much slower than those who have the guns. With this and Mingus’s words in mind, here are three short meditations on members of the IDF who are carrying what could easily have been wire cutters.
Meditation one:
Meditation two:
Meditation three:
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Blam!
OK, everybody. Pile on Charles.
I'd be stunned if there's a soldier in the world who doesn't carry a pair of wire cutters, be they a Leatherman, Gerber, or the standard issue Kalashnikov bayonet (which can be attached to the scabbard to form a set of wire cutters).
What was the point here, exactly?
Points are for fools!
Hawt Israeli chicks with big guns FTW! YUM!
Hmm...wire cutters, even symbolically, are to let oppressed people out to freedome and endless space. Wouldn't you say the IDF wants to fence areas in and not, as wire cutters would allow, open them up?
Does it matter? Look at the hawt chicks!
http://israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?t=13
My bad. Carry on.
Hellz yeah!
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*shakes head*
Last month Maxim had a "Girls of the IDF" spread....
I'm gonna avoid the guns and Israeli soldiers, and instead focus on the video that Charles linked to. That is one extraordinary performance of one incredible piece of music. Mingus grew up dirt poor in the Watts ghetto, and he was understandably angry as hell at the race hatred that was directed to him and his family from all sides. He took that rage, absorbed the lessons of jazz, listened intensely to the most expressive of the classical composers, and wrote some of the most powerful music of the 20th century. The powerful expression of a desire for change has done as much in its way to liberate people as either wire cutters or guns.
gurldoggie- Sorry we can't be so high-minded as you. External genitalia keep getting in the way.
My read on "these" (this) meditation is:
Guns: Phallic; objects of dominance
Wire-cutters: anti-Phallic; objects of castration
Always have been, alway will be.
As women, the photos' "subjects" should be playing a more appropriately symbolic / symbolically appropriate role. Charles is saying that the behavior of the women is an a-ffront on nature and also they are hot.
High-minded Shmigh-minded. Just watch the video and tell me you're not blown away.
Wow...first hot stormtroopers and now hot gun-toting Israeli babes. Where was the Slog when I was in junior high, dammnit!
judy, you got my meaning. i really did have that in mind. picturing them with the instruments against (rather than for) male domination. i'm not kidding. that is it.
This Israeli women soldier fetish is getting out of control. I joked about it like 10 years ago, and somehow people still fetishize this shit. It's universal military conscription, not porn. It's like sexualizing the whole Israeli population.
I'm sorry, how do you figure that exactly?
Dude, we fetishize a lot of shit. Hot chicks in the desert with guns is just hot any way you slice it.
Judah: Every one of age has to serve in the IDF. So saying "look how hot Israeli chicks are in uniform" is a lot like fetishizing every girl of a certain age in the country. And while this may not be the whole country, it's a whole generation that's being turned into pinups. Do American men really need to start collecting images of women serving in the IDF? It's fucking creepy.
Furthermore, uniforms should confer some measure of egalitarian respect. Sexualizing it defeats the whole idea of a society of equals fighting for its common defense. It makes a joke of it. Is it any wonder Israel has massive sexual harassment scandals in the military and within the state when women are just seen as dolled up toy soldiers.
If you want to get off on it, go ahead. It's still dumb shit. People will jerk off to National Geographic. :)
@4, @18 - actually, women in uniform are really sexy. It's a shame most guys are scared of them, but that's their problem.
@15 (assuming you are the actual Charles Mudede) - Whoo hoo! I win! I win! I wish I could somehow turn my new-found gift of interpretation into money though...
as much as i find the vast majority of those girls hot (and despite my tastes running along the lines of dark hair and dark eyes) i still think rachel corrie was much hotter.
but then again i guess i'm just a big ole (half jewish, depending on whom you ask) hippie dyke at heart.
Israelis with guns are not hot. They're intimidating at best, and entitled, racist and murderous at worst.
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