I inhabit a planet which carries its symbols forward notwithstanding what every ‘progressive’ thinks.

My point is very simple, if Russia were to win the Eurovision I’d be the first to lobby for sending the campest of acts, as would do everyone else around western Europe.

Then what, ban every act from stage? As I said, up yours Putin.

As for your barely concealed disdain for art and its relevance to life, no wonder you’re stuck in the weird end of youtube, confusing the rythmic onslaught of planetary communication for conspiracy.

I inhabit a planet which twin towers came down due the particularly critical design they had, planned in the early sixties. Ones where laden weight nearly added a fifth over compound mass.

Trust me kev, I know.

I have the instruments to interpret cubism as having brought Franco’s murderous attacks on Guernica to the world’s attention, dada predicting your sense of helplessness.

As for your difficulty to understand, let me spell it out, Vienna was the place where gender and androgeny were explored fullest, a refuge to artists exiled from Russia.

Love of the souls, Jean Delville 1900, this one from its sister city at the time, Brussels. Androgeny as Plato’s ideal of love.

http://moniquespassions.com/jean-delville/jean-delville-the-love-of-the-souls/

And isn’t that Conchita, fiery wings and all? Do you ignore the blatant obvious reference to the son of man?

Symbolists, unlike Impressionists and their cafes, were the first to contemplate Mittel Europe. It was then that Russia cut herself off.

Trust me kev, I know.

Now go play IRA.

He was probably offering his depilation services.

I don’t know which planet you inhabit, Jozef, but I’m talking about geopolitics, not Dadaism and Cubism; more specifically, I was trying to antropologically determine what your “Up yours, Putin” comment meant.

This mess doesn’t surprise me. I very well recall your nonsensical diatribes against the EAF, parroting and embellishing the lies of disgruntled bloggers without ever bothering to check the official party website at least as far as who the members actually were.

Stop it you two. You sound like medieval theologians discussing the number of angels that can fit on a pinhead.

Eurovision is a harmless bit of fun, and Farage is still a fruitcake. Actually, he’s the only man outside Malta who still takes Eurovision seriously.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/06/vladimir-putin-s-face-appears-to-contain-more-botulism-than-drug-store-sushi

Coming down on gays to preempt the Orthodox rite and drive a rift with Bergoglio’s Vatican to stoke anti European sentiment won’t work.

Ever heard of the symbolist movement? it’s the quintessence of Mittel Europe. It flourished when humanism reached the end of its aesthetical journey, indeed symbolists realised abstraction demanded the subjugation of symbols to ‘depict’ art and drew these directly instead.

Napolenonic portraits were so last year.

The more radical insisted it wasn’t even enough, that any reference, use and reliance on symbol was a barrier to free composition.

Deconstruct they said, Dada replied some, futurismo replied others (were those obsessed with energy), cubism still others.

To think deconstructivism was born in Russia. Or better, its exponents happened to be mostly Russian.

Ever seen Chagall’s masterpiece kev? It’s the Opera’s treasure, pity he couldn’t do the same at home.

Can art be degenerate? Do you distinguish between ‘alta cultura’ and pop surrealism?

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/vaticano/dettaglio-articolo/articolo/francesco-francis-francisco-31625/

If so, perhaps you don’t have the instruments to engage this discussion.

My sole reservation lies with the derivative nature of the music played. But then, it is a Euro’vision’ song contest. kaleidoscopic babushka and all.

Just as an aside, gender bending was always present in European ‘culture and tradition’. I shudder to think gender as unchanging, no doubt who gets to define it. And it’s not your ‘both’.

And why do you invariably mistake neutral comment for insidious propaganda?

How do you know ‘this makes no sense to me’?

I get the feeling you can’t get yourself to think without an imposed dogma, instead of relying on principle to guide your dialectic. ‘Clever’, something to dismiss as devious.

Sad really, you kill any potential. The consistent use of insult gratitious and predictable. Boring.

But how would it explain the 12 points from all those other countries? And the 10 points from Malta?

Yes, as gender is not the same as biological sex.

[Daphne – Hardly the point. You can rest assured Ringo Starr’s passport and contracts give his name as Richard Starkey, unless he has had his name changed by deed poll. Legal documents have to carry your legal name, and no abbreviations thereof.]