[thingist] Agree?

[w]

I wonder what I was smoking when we discussed this idea.

To do the video you will have to buy the princess dolls and get a
miniature guillotine.  Here are instructions on how to build one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WZFLuU8CU&feature=youtu.be

The alternative is to order a Chinese plastic model from amazon 
for 9.75 Euro, but you still have to paint it yourself:

https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0829DQ66F?tag=duc03-21&linkCode=osi&th=1&psc=1

Ok, Bezos, plastics and China, I agree, not a good option.  

But here's a pretty good Lego execution:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOSXCR9C4Q

After all this research, I think some ideas are better left unexecuted.

Instead I will have one of my favorite Belgian beers:

https://belgianfamilybrewers.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/La_Guillotine_10G.jpg


Greetings from my quarantine cell in Berlin!  

W


CC: Caspar Stracke via thingist.  Perhaps there is something there for 04/30.



On Sat, 2020-04-25 at 15:04 -0400, Peter Fend wrote:
> princess dolls only
> 
> not other ones
> 
> we make a very pronounced distinction
> 
> and we send the message that if you want to be a US citizen
> you MUST not behave as a would-be princess
> 
> the social cost is too high
> 
> and the political contradiction is too great:  I live in a free
> republic?
> amd my child is taught to live the life of royalty?  No way.  
> Indeed, the violence that I proposed was FAR LESS than the violence
> imposed on the poorer people by the princess-fantasies that abound.
> 
> witness the wage-slavery of all the internet-prompted delivery
> nobodies
> 
> Girls with I-phones need to know the social cost of their privileged
> behavior.
> 
> The video contemplated, with Wolfgang Stahle, was to build a scaffold
> with a guillotine, and then chop off the heads of a hundred Disney
> princess
> dolls, with music from what we hear at graduation.  There would be
> point-
> blank recitations about the Saudi investment in Disney, and about the
> dominance of the oil industry, particularly in the worst ecological
> practices,
> by royalist or effectively-royalist companies.   Their assumption,
> very
> obnoxous, and contrary to all the thought about so-called creative
> capitalism,
> has been that they alone will effect a "transition" from fossils to
> renewables,
> as they alone, by Divine Right, have the power of controlling
> "Energy".
> 
> remarkable it is, now that this "traumatized, violence-taught"
> daughter who
> is  going to Harvard, and paid double my earnings to do so, has been
> able
> to hear, for about 15 yaers, what I really think.
> 
> How is it that I can say to my child what I cannot possibly say in
> the art world, or any polite-publication world.
> 
> I can say the truth as i see it to my child, but must avoid
> saying such things in my cultural job?
> 
> Strange.
> 
> What use, then, does the cultural job have?
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
> On April 25, 2020 at 2:24 PM Sarah Markgraf <slipperg at optonline.net>
> wrote: 
> 
> I envision a video in which you are explaining to a young girl about
> the revolution, then proceed to de-capitate all her dolls.
> 
> NO, the Dad says:  almost all dolls are fine, just not princess or
> queen ones
> > Sent from my iPad
> > 
> > > On Apr 25, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Peter Fend <fend at ocean-earth.net>
> > > wrote: 
> > > 
> > > To do so in a videotape, with the chopping done anesthetially, by
> > > guillotine,
> > > and only for Disney-brand princess dolls, 
> > > 
> > > if accompanied by an explanatory press release,
> > > 
> > > could be an enactment of political history about which we cannot
> > > be sued for
> > > libel, or for damaging the Disney brand.
> > > 
> > > Anybody has a right to destroy his or her own property.
> > > 
> > > Would Disney need to come out defending royalism?
> > > ahem, r-oilism?
> > > 
> > > Similar vicious actions could be done with "Amazon."
> > > 
> > > F.
> > > 
> > > oh, and M.:  was the French Revolution "funny and alarming"?
> > > 
> > > Or was it an historical event with huge global consequences?
> > > > On April 25, 2020 at 12:59 PM Sarah Markgraf <
> > > > slipperg at optonline.net> wrote: 
> > > > 
> > > > Thank you for reminding me of the Disney-Saudi connection.
> > > > 
> > > > The story of you and Sophia chopping off the heads of her dolls
> > > > has always struck me as both funny and alarming.  I don’t mean
> > > > “ha ha funny.” 
> > > > 
> > > > Sent from my iPad
> > > > 
> > > > > On Apr 24, 2020, at 5:50 PM, Peter Fend <fend at ocean-earth.net
> > > > > > wrote: 
> > > > > 
> > > > > piqued
> > > > > 
> > > > > "interest"?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I discovered the Disney princess obsession from reading to my
> > > > > kid, then seeing videotapes for all the kids.  I was so
> > > > > pissed off by the narrative that I taught 
> > > > > Sophia about how in the French Revolution all the princesses
> > > > > had their heads chopped off.  We made drawings with chalk on
> > > > > the pavement of heads being
> > > > > chopped off.  Her mother got angry, saying that I was
> > > > > teaching violence.  No, 
> > > > > I said in angry retort, I'm teaching History.  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Hopefully, the lesson sinks in.  Princesses or wannabe
> > > > > princesses should die.
> > > > > 
> > > > > The fantasy women have of getting all their needs met by
> > > > > deliveries, from
> > > > > Amazon, from Fresh Direct, from the corner pizzeria, results
> > > > > directly from the
> > > > > Disney princess propaganda.  And so, the free nation
> > > > > subordinates itself to
> > > > > royalism.  
> > > > > 
> > > > > Remember:  one of the biggest investors in Walt Disney,
> > > > > especially in the 100-year bonds, is Saudi Arabian royalty.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thus, the US becomes a prisoner of royalist energy policies
> > > > > of Saudi Arabia,
> > > > > UAE, Kuwait, Britain (BP & Shell), Netherlands (Shell),
> > > > > Norway (Equinor), Spain (Repsol), and two autocratic
> > > > > countries that could as well be royalist (Russia and China).
> > > > > 
> > > > > OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
> > > > > 
> > > > > Must we do the American and French Revolutions again?
> > > > > 
> > > > > Peter Fend
> > > > > wannabe US citizen
> > > > > peon of the Empire
> > > > > 
> > > > > > On April 24, 2020 at 3:47 PM Sarah Markgraf < 
> > > > > > slipperg at optonline.net> wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > The link between Disney girl fantasies and “delivery
> > > > > > fantasies” peeked my interest.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Sent from my iPad
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > > On Apr 23, 2020, at 9:35 AM, Peter Fend < 
> > > > > > > fend at ocean-earth.net> wrote:
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > ---------- Original Message ----------
> > > > > > > > From: Peter Fend < fend at ocean-earth.net>
> > > > > > > > To: sofia bastidas < tvgov.info at gmail.com>
> > > > > > > > Date: April 23, 2020 at 9:31 AM
> > > > > > > > Subject: Agree?
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > If you do, then--I ask--please forward these thoughts
> > > > > > > > to Guillermo and Agustina.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > I wake up full of desires to make history.
> > > > > > > > The stagnation of my entire life is too much.
> > > > > > > > Now, Bezos must fall, Bolsonaro must lose,
> > > > > > > > the Amazon must be saved, Physiocratic
> > > > > > > > management of land/water must begin,
> > > > > > > > Putin must get an imaginative start to his
> > > > > > > > next 8 years in the Kremlin, the reservoirs
> > > > > > > > must be cleaned out, and we must be rich.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > The complete collapse of Bezos is entirely
> > > > > > > > possible. Such happened before in history.
> > > > > > > > If people no longer believe in a company
> > > > > > > > or its head, the whole thing can disappaer
> > > > > > > > within months.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > To drive the point home: we spearhead any
> > > > > > > > attack on Bezos with an attack on what I
> > > > > > > > hated to even touch when I visited Harvard
> > > > > > > > Law School in my 20s: the 3-inch thick US
> > > > > > > > Internal Revenue Code. The document is
> > > > > > > > a NIGHTMARE. And people spend their entire
> > > > > > > > lives figuring out to cheat the public by using
> > > > > > > > that book. Bezos hired the lawyers who would
> > > > > > > > do exactly that. As Professional Parasites,
> > > > > > > > eating away at the body politic and genuine
> > > > > > > > free enterprise. Eating away at the USA like
> > > > > > > > a disease.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Characterize "Amazon" as a disease worse
> > > > > > > > than COViD, and everyone will flee in hororr.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > We can then take on the Disney princess
> > > > > > > > fantasies, which created the market for selfish
> > > > > > > > delivery fantasies. The public name for such
> > > > > > > > an attack: TVGOV.
> > > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > Pedro Quixote
> > > 
> > >  
> 
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