Fin De Siecle

How can one explain the fact that a prostitute who slept with the former governor of New York is rewarded with a newspaper column on love and sex? Why should a down and out British actor be given a role as a movie star after revealing that he slept with a world famous mannequin? Is getting attention by wearing foolish looking outfits or provocative gear the source of success in the music business? When did pornography become a legitimate business? One fine day, I know not when, the world moved from “Ozzie and Harriet” to Charlie Sheen, from sobriety to the drug addled mind. It seems that the freedom secured through blood and treasure during World War II turned to license. “Anything Goes” is more than a Cole Porter tune; it is a Nietzchean call to test the limits of human existence. Perhaps the roots of this challenge go back to the French Revolution when the “le deluge” was welcomed as a giant broom sweeping the past away. Jean Jacque Rousseau argued, “A little bit of agitation gives motivation to the soul, and what really makes the species prosper is not peace so much as freedom.” This, of course, was a self serving comment, since Rousseau consumed the fumes of revolution. In my experience, people weigh the benefits of freedom and security or peace, giving up a little of one to create some timely balance with the other. magazine, noted that “looting is the dominant way of life in America, and the hypocritical cries of outrage at what happened in Los Angeles were not wrong because the rioters were justified, but were wrong because they were classically racist: They selected and condemned one group for behavior of other groups that are not being equally condemned.” So singling out the rioters is a ‘racist response’ promoted by the fact that most of us know that we are complicit with the culture of looting. Here in undiluted form is cultural chaos theory. Presumably since, “looting is the dominant way of life,” we are all complicit. The only thing wrong of course, is that looters chose to abuse only one racial and ethnic group. Lerner seemingly confirms the T.S. Eliot aphorism that “People who have stopped thinking make for a powerful force.” When people stop thinking any thought is acceptable including nonjudgmental thought. As a consequence, culture is in the odd position of not being criticized. Talent is relative along with every other consideration.

The Mannequin Movie

10 Years old and filmed in the dusty basement of the CCS apartment building, this film is sure to stand the test of time and expand our existential understanding of reality.

MANNEQUIN (n.)

1.a styled and three-dimensional representation of the human form used in window displays, as of clothing; dummy.

2.a wooden figure or model of the human figure used by tailors, dress designers, etc., for fitting or making clothes.

3.a person employed to wear clothing to be photographed or to be displayed before customers, buyers, etc.; a clothes model.

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a while back you had a DVD on Andrew the guy from jacks mannequin was that a good movie?

I just saw the movie mannequin today, i cried a lot, beacuse now i'm beggining a( )

Marina & the Diamonds show with an opening by Hollywood from that movie Mannequin. I'm into it. (@ Webster Hall)

I love the movie Mannequin. ♡

Oh my goodness, yes. Mannequin (the movie) is amazing! However I agree that mannequins (the plastic people) are creepy.

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