Duele mucho que el groupo en la societad que mas me inspire, los disidentes Cubano, ser rewuelte con leaders corrupto en su opinone de discurso estadosnidense, sin conscience de mandate. Various disidentes Cubano que apoyo mucho an cojido con politicos distorsionar sus letras democrata y justo moral civico.

Mozart in the Jungle of False Dichotomies

There is a knee jerk reaction in “the media”, entertainment and, news alike to fall back, start and or, spring off of pretty laced up packages or false dichotomies out of indolence and for effect that is part of the reason why the United States has been hijacked by special interests. Perhaps the greatest dramedy ever on TV, the marvelous Mozart in the Jungle (recently canceled by Amazon after 4 seasons), is a great place to start as an example because of its superb style and themes. Pointing out the erroneous parsing of overall substance morality and justice into a simplistic structure of right and wrong; black or white is the most weighted detriment, besides greed, to every issue. The value and artistic worth of Mozart in the Jungle taps into high art, culture and social responsibilities as well as creative sensibilities perhaps more than any other series has ever done. Jungle dives head first into the value of being human and how each individual struggles to define themselves; spiritually, mentally, emotionally and physically. The series pounded the idea of how we view ourselves in applying the strengths of character regardless of talent or results based ultimately on our own divinity and humanity. Whether it is your compassion, your efforts, your wisdom, your charm, your kindness or what have you; however you fit into the grand scheme of life your value is measured by as the main character Composer Rodrigo De Souza, played genuinely by Gael Garcia Bernal says, “the blood”. This main running theme equating all in life essentially to its divinity or divine natural earthly value is what makes Mozart In the Jungle such an important series. This type of sincere open heart practical compassionate dreamlike orgasmic lust for life exposing many of its purist desires and serene indulgences is extremely rare in entertainment but Mozart in the Jungle is just cake baby. Like a much needed “in and out” or “shake shack” burger at the end of a long week of managerial repression or corporate exploitation but, like Ice Cube said at the beginning of “Body Count”, “in some place like You know, The Cosby Show, Ozzie and Harriet You know, where Cops come and get your cat outta a tree and all your friends died at old age. But you see.. I live in South Central, Los Angeles And unfortunately... S**T AIN'T LIKE THAT!! It's real f**ked up!”. 

Here come the puppy dog, hippie dippy voices saying, ‘well that’s not what Mozart in the Jungle is about, it’s just an escape from reality and a look at how great musicians live and experience life’ but no; when you’re talking about the essential worth of all life and the value of its applications you have a responsibility to iron out consequential realities or the weight doesn’t hold as long and the kids don’t vote because they’re too happy holding an all access source of entertainment in their hands. As the bohemian argued about Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man in the Sea in that silly comedy “Peggy Sue Got Married” there is no meat on the fish when the old man returns. While his courage and struggle may very well define him he comes home without the fish or the help he needs. The questions and problems he faced are left unanswered. Hemingway, much like De Souza is having too much fun snapping his magical fingers to do the work. The worth of substance is in the reality of its application; its cause and effect. Like Edgar Allen Poe’s “Single Effect Theory” on writing, Mozart in the Jungle masterfully holds on to its theme of divinity in all things for almost every line and scene but it’s all fake and contrived without the conditional triggers, gray areas and painstaking guides we all need to get there ourselves. 

Society of course like Mozart in the Jungle is missing the institutionalized instant triggers which react to our immediate needs. One example as written in my last ignored neglected post, even the majestically beautiful March 24^th 2018 March for Our Lives marches on gun control failed to address the need to take out mentally disturbed individuals for isolated treatment. There was no trigger during this campaign to send sociopaths like Nicolas Cruz to a camp somewhere in the jungle, because like the equally beautiful and marvelous dramedy series Mozart in the Jungle; we’re still in a quicksand of dichotomies. It costs too much money to provide proper mental care for students with violent tendencies says the right, while the so called moderates are too afraid to mention it do to poll numbers. 

In sadly the last season of Mozart in the Jungle, unless it’s picked up by another network, an aspiring young drummer can’t afford professional lessons, so our hero the great De Souza takes his shift waiting tables so he can get said free instructions from a pro; the only time surprisingly and immediately discovered available. The young teen drummer is later confronted about his own rebellious draw backs with some welcome tough love by an injured cellist who steps in one day covering for De Souza. She wouldn’t do his shift that day because of his attitude, and that display of angst snapped the kid out of his woe is me doldrums to turn him into a new hero for us. That’s all well and good, the scene brought tears to my eyes but it’s all delivered in a bright red bow marked, fantasy.  The scene got real in the dramatic sense but failed to outline the important social issue of poverty and lack of opportunity. 

People like to add reason and accountability to futile methods and tactics in a world wind of structure based on a lot of BS, gloss and, packaging but practical methods and bullet point steps needed in achieving desperately needed structural changes go mute or worse yet are hidden in undetailed nuance. Like in the great debate between Thomas Paine and Edmund Bruke it’s all left to political or cultural aristocracies dependent on false illusory dichotomies and obscenely neglectful traditions. The problem is not just the basic right vs left, democrats vs republicans, liberals vs conservatives it’s an overall dichotomy of dichotomies found in sub groups as people feel the need to cling to large cliques like blue dog corporate democrats vs progressive liberals, hipsters vs plebeians or “alternate facts” Trumpers vs “moderate” republicans and so on and so forth. The love of easy headlines and one liners has taken over the debate.

Mozart in the Jungle is understandably made for syndication in that the episodes are too short and not drawn to any current news but it’s really a shame we can’t dwell a little more on scenes breathing in the nuances like aroma therapy. Much of the music in the series are just teasers of performances that we will never hear and the moments of contemplation lack important realism or Cinéma Vérité. Perhaps if they ever make a film we’ll get more drawn out goodies that further indulge us in the hipster lives and intriguing musician perspectives as well as get more into the crusts of the problems. The beauty and intensity of the characters are like a drug I need, vicariously living in the realm of timeless art and the worship of a divine art that lives in our most comforting chaste desires. Season 4 ended with an existentialist orgasm realizing the inner workings of identity crisis. Everyone can relate to the psychological struggles of the artist’s failings and complexity. I’ve never loved and wanted to watch a dramedy as much as this one but again; its power to delight and enthrall lacks the consequential reality needed to understand and deal with current necessities much like our media. When we placate the struggles of injustice without exposing the culprits and their deeds; they win and we lose. The power of an immaculate storyline, characters, actors, and expert observance must not play out in vain.

It’s the reliance on our state of mind as progressives that’s displacing our preoccupations. Punditry and faux social media is replacing substance while no one takes issues with immediate concerns. Every day media filler storms love to chat away about the problems with certain mind sets or the changing of current sensibilities when the real issues dragging us down are like massive gashes we are bleeding to death from. One meme recently quipped “inner peace is the new success”, as if complacency with government and corporate exploitation of the truth can’t affect us. We are too busy debating and discussing the nuances of our problems as a society in easily digested dichotomies in order to fill short broadcast news times or quick social media news feeds. The practice of making specific legislative demands or directional and targeting protest pin pointing candidates as laid out in the writing of Saul Alinsky is lost to propaganda for moderates and right wing extremists alike.

Despite being a womanizer, Rodrigo De Souza is a role model of hipster actualization, doing his part in the insanity of corporate dominance with certain bold selfless acts of defiance but the smooth perfect writing of this series much like the best of our network news shows lack the essential drawn out redundancy of truth and justice. When our rule of law or our regulations fail to protect us we must stop what we are doing that entertains and do whatever we can to stop the injustice. De Souza is a super hero, a magical being that talks to Mozart, reflecting and pointing out to all of us the importance of substance in art and life but he like our media fails to describe what in reality is needed. While we may think it’s not their job to direct protest to specific change it’s also not their jobs to normalize our progressive sensibilities. Doing your part on Earth Day or Election Day is meaningless while 30 to 40 percent of the public believe Trump and his republican cohorts’ lies while they attack the environment and the rule of law. As Bono of the great rock band U2 loves to say, “America is an idea”. There is a great reason we love and look to our founding fathers for truth and inspiration. They penned a government by the people for the people in order to allow reason to be the bearer of justice not aristocracy; from the Zen loving hipster left or the fraudulent oligarchic right.

3 Billboards, Water and the Parkland Paine Revolution

Vibrant acts of violence for a cause made up of mostly psychological reasons sets up 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri as a modern parity of American government. Trump’s reckless actions like those acted flawlessly by Frances McDormand and Samuel Rockwell sit unrealistically unaccountable. Hollywood’s obsession with character driven narratives revealing relations once again more important than the themes in the end serves to suggest even violent actions in themselves don’t mean as much as the journey, the psyches involved relying on heroes or elitists to save the day and in the end repent while their actions prove valiant enough to deserve respect, or even our acknowledgement of an alternate reality as was seen as well in Oscar front runner the Shape of Water. The new sheriff in 3 billboards, saying the rapist isn’t our problem anymore, is a perfect metaphor for our time much like the number 3 at the D.O.J., stepping down to work at Walmart like what America and great movies come to aspire to? Magical classic solutions that solve nothing and fail to bring forth structural change. The consequences of actions and words no longer meriting justice? Do we stand off the docks of Dunkirk for the French or do we take our last stance as a symbolic gesture void of practicality? Director, Martin McDonagh, denies us any result, while Del Toro gives up for an impossible one. Let the acting tell the story.

     With enough public evidence to impeach trump thrown on the floor like a suicidal joke, our rule of laws at the whim of political agendas and the money it stokes, cruel humor without consequence, sacrifices realism and theme for selfish effects; mostly stalling and showcasing great character performances. Movies like Dunkirk, by far a superior film and Mad Max, a film whose action and acting meant more than dotting the eyes of matching personalities, substance lies in righting wrongs through concrete steps. In Dunkirk the heroes were based in logical parameters, not angst filled dread or whimsical experience. Thomas Paine’s greatest value as a writer was in many ways what’s lacking in films like theses and our government; the accountability of reasoning toward justice changing laws, beyond pathetic displays of distortion that obfuscate reality in favor of desperate acts and shock value. 

A Thomas Paineian revolution has begun in Parkland Florida, when reason targeting legislation meets “sit ins” at capitols we have the beginning of structural changes for the rule of law and democracy. The elitist structure that came from the American Revolution used white supremacy as a stain and now comes the time to redefine normalcy and even the definition of obscene because all who love democracy should be offended by the lawlessness in government both in its shill complicities and neglect. Where is the minority report pointing out the list of times legislation and policy changes we all want were ignored or banned from voting on?

During the women’s march anniversary all the enormous rallies across the nation were beautiful and inspiring not to mention some of the vulgar signs but they were almost all at the wrong place and failing to focus on any legislation.

Evidence is pointing toward the opinion President Trump and members of his administration have colluded with Russians who at the time were tampering with our election. The obvious obstruction of justice and open corruption aside, the shocking complicity among Republicans who do not faithfully investigate and try to solve the problem of Russian led cyber tampering should be and must be given our full attention.

If the special counsel’s head Robert Mueller is removed a Democratic minority report must be immediately filed and congress should do whatever possible to impeach the president. All other issues, even the government shutdown due to the DACA flip flop pales in comparison as a distraction, one among our president’s daily similar attempts to divert us. Dare I say even issues like infidelity with the possibility of blackmail and similar sex crimes likewise serve as a diversion from an issue whose nature redefines our rule of law changing our classification but not our identity? The absurdity of this reality has wrung our media into a fatigued haze. To not be redundant in its approach, hammering out the details of the mounting evidence, is silent complicity.  When Mueller’s report is finalized and presented to congress; Americans at the very least should demand a vote on impeachment.

No one will ever change what America is about. It was created by Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklyn and other founding fathers we celebrate on Presidents ’ Day to be a place of law ruled by freedom and justice.

In the Paine vision of America there are no lobbyists, no unjust wars, and no lawless corruption destroying our environments. This nation was created to continuously strive to improve the human condition based on the reasonable needs of the people. All the other countries at the time sought to determine how political elites decided rights. Regulations to protect people from greed are essential to stop the continued laziness of wasteful governing. The electoral process should be free online, every government facility catering to petitioned candidates live and on TV.

The worst impact of Donald Trump is the effect on his supporters, as his mindless simpleton rhetoric eats away at their souls pushing them to forget our true values; to honor each person with a chance to work as well as live free from corruption and neglect.

May the revolution also never forget how our markets and commerce are a distortion of proper capitalism that welcomes refugees and immigrants into a beacon of diversity! A nation that fights for the rights of all is indivisible yet also currently an invisible one; far from what Trump supporters believe is the vision of the cons regurgitated in alternate realities. What Trump and his like seek is not America, a hogwash of elites having their way in all manner of exploitations, manipulations, and siphoning of wealth.