I Did It All For Love...

Vanity. All is vanity...

 

There's little Oswald Cobblepot in the pic above, between the idiot of the Bauer family, Jacob, and some ambassador or other to China.

Got to shake this guy's hand.

 

World's most powerful men...

 

St. Moritz Part II

So if you ever go to St. Moritz, instead of to the next Bilderberg Conference – wherever that is being held (and once it actually has been held in St. Moritz too, by the way) – I would suggest going to the St. Moritz Gourmet Festival. Anyone may.

You’re going to see some hilarious things there. And yes, it will mostly be filled with mighty wealthy people, and even the Chefs who go are at the top end of the food business throughout the world so they are certainly not paupers either by any means.

You’re going to see some old styles and traditions that almost no one else would get away with anywhere else in the world these days. For instance, by choice, whenever there is some big food event, the women actually go off and sit with the other women, leaving the men, to hang out by themselves on their side of the room, or rooms, as these often are. We’re talking about actually during the meal!

And there are women in sable furs like you wouldn’t believe.

Roman Polanski

When Roman Polanski was holed up in Gstaad not too long ago, he had meals brought up to him in secret by some quite amazing Chefs. Gstaad is another one of these ‘ski playgrounds of the vastly wealthy’ – also in Switzerland though 400 kilometres away from St. Moritz.

I include here a pic also of another Russian/Jewish/Polish/half-Catholic expatriate – the late Western Australian city councillor and psychologist, architect, and poly-histor, Paul Ritter... You may recall he was one of the two architects who laid the foundation stones of the original WTC towers. You may not recall that too of course, though I have mentioned it before and now at least you do know it anyway...

The late Paul Ritter

Facts are much stranger than fiction, don’t you know! I have a copy of the recently leaked pre-screenplay text for the upcoming Bond movie ‘Spectre.’ A lot of people do. One of the Schlumberger family girls – Lea Seydoux – is in the cast of the movie.

Modern production needs and funding being what they are, who knows what this movie will turn out to be like.

I think the real problem with the Bond movies nowadays is the difficulty storywriters have of dealing with who the villain character is and why we should regard them as villains, and what they do or did to attain the appellation.

Latest Russian side arm, the Strizh Swift Strike -
is able to fire underwater! Fleming would be pleased!

But I will tell you this: occasionally the Danjaq LLC team has gotten the kernel of the story pretty right. And it will have been drawn from real behind-the-scenes stuff. They all hang out at the same Swiss restaurants and hotels, see... Maybe one day they’ll stop with the American focus groups and the ‘pc’ endings. We’ll get a story then.

 

Don't Go To Singapore

Seriously people - how long have I been going on about this?

Waste of breath, for the most part, isn't it?

St. Moritz

You know I actually get invites to places that Alex Jones and others talk about a lot with some considerable disdain. Most of those ‘events’ which get featured in the general media are these days the second-string though. Too many people already know too much about what is said to be going on at those gatherings and so the ‘hard core’ goes even deeper to ground.

Even so, you can see and feel the trailing whisps...!

King Farouk in St. Moritz -

this was political correctness then...

Even for a muslim...

Take St. Moritz for one example. The Bilderberg Group went there a couple of years ago. I’m not sure though – are the Bilderbergers of the mind to think they are something ‘higher’ or more connected than the normal ski-bunnies and the bunny-masters who go to St. Moritz each season.

This year, while the press is posting pictures of a melted, slurry-darkened, wet St Basils surrounds in Moscow, the snow has been very good in St. Moritz, where they eat a lot of caviar and the dames still feel naked without their Barguzinskaya coats.

Yet I have friends in Moscow and they tell me the snow has been great there – there isn’t any slurry and slippery ice, just the usual pretty white winter scene. I wonder why the usual media is as a man using the same drab wet slurry spoiled scene.

St. Moritz today

Heavy wealth is very tribal. Those who do the Sydney-to-Hobart are distinctly not the same as those who do St. Moritz or Gstaad.

This coming year I will find for you some less-problematic tribal wealth. There is much going on in the background.

Snegurochka

I have personally known one or two industrial designers over the course of a lot of years. Not very many, mind you, just one or two I have known quite well enough to say they were friends whilst they were alive; and they are not, as is implicit in the wording, alive any more of course.

The understandings they communicated to me were simply amazing to me when I was a younger person. When they used words like ‘dynamic,’ and ‘force’ and ‘foreground’- the way they explained the ideas behind such words was totally enlightening to me.

Alfa 4C comes to the USA in 2015

Some design here...

They made everything start out from such simple basics too.

A basic is a foundation, but it may not be simple! But great industrial designers have a way of breaking things down into very simple elements.

Design is a progression using simple building blocks but employing the edges of any defined thing, and the borders or bridges demarking things which are by small degrees separately defined, but closely related. And then when you incorporate action or movement, and time, and severity or gentleness of curvature and density or heaviness or lightness, on the top of ideal straight lines, you begin to get a living structure. Living in time and space, but also alive to the subtle senses possessed by the human being, and conveying meaning to the human mind.

Architects and designers know what to be ‘living’ in these terms means. The contemporary mind insists on trying to adjudge whether a thing ‘exists’ or not, rather than observing that a thing unseen may yet be alive in a subtle way. But even material existence is a far more unusual thing than many ordinary people care to know...

Snegurochka - The Snow Maiden

The genesis of the Snegurochka – the Snow Maiden – dates from long before Communism in Russia. It shows the Russian mindset certainly predated the Communist Russian ideology. If you consult Wikipedia on it, you will see the most blatant anti-Russian and ‘anti-myth’ modern propaganda about it – it’s complete rubbish and deliberately so...

Soon, we shall not have snow anymore. And then even this shall pass into mystery and dubious beliefs of the past. Lol. Climate change you know. (Nods sagely).

But in reality everything old is new again. The latest, most avant-garde popular entertainment – The Legend of Korra – essentially a re-imagined modern anime, is an ancient Greek story with every single piece, even the names, completely intact. Yet the kids think they invented it though. I have not yet consulted the Wiki on this but I know what I shall see there. Aarne-Thompson does not know how to deal with this particular kind of myth... And that’s because like all other post-Cartesian propagandas, Aarne-Thompson too is specious. That is why mainstream schools of psychology despise university academia. Jung is discounted and the pretentiousness of Aarne-Thompson is worshipped as ‘golden truth.’ Personally I think it is an interesting codex (IE., A-T) but no more than that.

I wonder how many people realise that the story of Father Christmas is actually a very old version of CSI?

People write into folklore what was very unusual in its day. And that is the reality of it. All folklore is true, and even though there are no physical straight lines in Nature, yet underneath industrial design there is a subtle ‘straight line’ which is in Nature. And I would counsel even the most cynical or ‘realistic’ to scratch a little deeper beneath the surface than all the sides of modern sociological disputation represent – they are all fundamentally flawed arguments and wrong because they are so politically loaded. People object to the power claimed within the myth. That is only because they themselves have never accessed it or think that they cannot. The Ipsissimus can never reveal himself. He is there though. It’s part of the whole human thing. Think Steve Jobs. And project him another five hundred years from now. Anything is possible. This, you should know as my message of Christmas.