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Originally posted by weedwhacker
DD...I'm puzzled by your reference to the coda, in your latest post.
I see HIS 'coda' as an ability to show the World his contained imagination...finally!!!!
Originally posted by DangerDeath
A soldier may find himself in a situation where what he is doing is right, and also in situation where what he is doing is something very wrong. Put it all together, it is a very difficult situation to justify - that's why they need reassurance most of the time.
Soldiers, like most people, are not good thinkers. Most of them are contained within an ideological or emotional frame of existence. They are all expendable, consumable. I don't say they will all die at the battlefield, but when they are decommissioned, many of them fall apart once they are left alone and back into a different social environment, where what they did may look very wrong.
But it is a dynamical situation, young people are not really up to it, they join the army with different dreams... Soon, they are shattered.
That is the source of all manipulation - inexperience, inability or lack of will to understand one's actions - which all comes, often too late, to settle the account. That often results in breakdown...
[edit on 16-11-2008 by DangerDeath]
Originally posted by DangerDeath
And about artists being PAID - it doesn't really come to that, that what they do they do for money. It is more like they are ALLOWED to get some money for what they do in order not to entirely die out, otherwise they are not even mentioned in official records...
I doubt it, this statue is nothing special.
Originally posted by DangerDeath
Rodin would be proud of him
"I made the statues of Saddam — even though I didn't want to — because I needed money for my family and to finish my education," he says, reclining in a room decorated with several of his paintings. "And I decided to make statues for the Americans for the exact same reasons."
As the work neared completion, Sgt. Fuss and the division's commander, Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno, decided it needed a clearer connection to Iraq. The general suggested adding a small child to symbolize Iraq's new future, Sgt. Fuss says. When they told the artist they wanted another statue, Mr. Alussy demanded $10,000 more. "He learned capitalism real fast," Sgt. Fuss says.
Originally posted by DangerDeath
Kalat did an excellent job independently from the context. Rodin would be proud of him