WRONSKI WRANGLES

C'mon ... just a bunch of folks all dressed up looking festive, and having fun*. Oh, you say, looks a lot like the arrangement of the Last Supper. C'mon ... lots of people sit at tables . Besides that Blue Man clearly is a Dionysian reference. You be seeing things! C'mon. Besides, you Christians, wake the fuck up. Such easily offended Karens. We wanna be who we are, not who you want us to be. Be like Christ? They killed him ... who wants that? Stop. So you say that group is not a representation of the Last Supper, but the Blue Man is a representation of a  f#@king  Dionesian orgy?  You wanna have it both ways? Or, it seems, you wanna have it any way you wanna have it. And, if enough people wanna have it a certain same way, and they are in the majority, and/or loud enough, that that's the way it is? Really. That does seem to be the zeitgeist around now in this politically incendiary moment in the Presidential election of 2024 in the US of A. Smacks of more than a bit of...

Krishnamurti Context:  From Madras 1968, Talk 2 Look what is happening in the world: we are being conditioned by society, by the culture in which we live, and that culture is the product of man – there is nothing holy or divine or eternal about culture. And the culture, the society, the books, the radio, all that we listen to, see, the many influences of which we are either conscious or unconscious, all these encourage us to live within a very small fragment of a vast field of the mind.  You go through school, college, and learn a technique to earn a livelihood. For the next sixty years, or perhaps less, you spend your life, your time, your energy, your thought, in that specialised little field. And there is the vast field of the mind. Unless we bring about a radical change in this fragmentation, there can be no revolution at all; there will be modifications, economic, social, so-called cultural, but man will go on suffering, will go on in conflict, in war, in misery, in sorro...