Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

 

CRIME OVERALL & POLICE ROUTINE

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Three crime series in one entry.

First, The Brokenwood Mysteries; seasons 1 to 3.

Second, The Coroner, Complete Series.

Third, The Unforgotten, Series 1 to 4, Complete Series.

 

Police series, detective stories, criminal mysteries, and many other options in the field of crime and delinquency have been explored by the English from the first moment they started existing, a very long time ago.

 

Shakespeare and he was not the first author in the field, loved those stories of crimes and criminals, having people assassinated, or mutilated, or tortured on the stage from Titus Andronicus to Romeo and Juliet.

 

Dickens was a good one too in that field, but Shakespeare looked at crime from the outside, from some ethical point of view. Dickens looked at it from inside, from the point of view of the criminals themselves forced to commit crimes in order to simply survive.

 

Then you had Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein and then later on Dracula came into the picture, and many others trill we came across Conan Doyle who edicted the proper form of a crime story or detective story, hence an investigation of a crime we can only see from outside, and the investigation is to get into it to see how it got developed and who was the criminal.

 

Since then, with the radio at first, the cinema next, and finally television leading directly to streaming and the Internet, those police adventures have just become adventures, and the extreme form is what they call action films where violence is no longer criminal since it has been transformed into the ultimate survival if not the final renascence before the apocalypse.

 

Enjoy these series.

 

Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

Criminal Justice,  *  Police Science,  *  Ethics,  *  Crime,  *  Investigation

 

Let Them Speak In Glyphs

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The Mayas are more a cultural and historical mystery than a vast field of knowledge. We know less than we can even imagine about them. Where did they come from? What language did they speak before coming to Mesoamerica? What were their beliefs before arriving in Yucatan? They brought with them cacao, chocolate, writing, mathematics, extremely advanced calendars, phenomenal knowledge about stars, planets and the cosmos. They even brought with them a vigesimal counting system with the mathematics going along with it, including the equivalent of our zero (that we borrowed from the Arabs in the 17th century) that enabled them to count up to the infinite.

 

The most remarkable achievement is that they managed to merge phenomenal art with the glyphic writing system of theirs. We know the glyphs were works of art, for one, and a syllabary phonetic writing system, for two. For a very long time the second aspect was rejected, particularly by Sir Eric Thompson. Luckily this untruth was rejected after his death, with a little bit of disregard before his death. The glyphs were not flat symbolic of items and purely artistic, like some kind of secondary if not superfluous decoration. The colonizing Spaniards considered that decoration as diabolical and they burned and destroyed all the books and artifacts that carried such artistic representations of Maya reality and such glyphs that could only be the language of the devil.

 

Imagine how surprised I was when I discovered this catalogue of an exhibition at the MET Museum of Art in New York. They provide some images of the glyphs, and even some sentences written with them. But they systematically ignore the glyphs, transliterate the sentences and words into Latin-transliterated Maya, and simply work and speculate on these transliterations and their translations into English. They lose all the richness of meaning and beauty of the glyphs. In other words, they terminate, bring to a final end the destructive work of the Spaniards, the culturicide of the Mayas and the Maya culture and civilization. My full study (about 15,000 words, only in English) is available on Medium.com, at https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/let-them-speak-in-glyphs-865f9b61926b or as a PDF on Academia.edu at https://www.academia.edu/117876935/Let_Them_Speak_In_Glyphs.

 

My objective in this long study of mine is to show and evaluate with examples the tremendous loss this catalog, for one, and this exhibition, for two, assume and endorse irreversibly for the audience and the readers. It is very fine and dandy to know that the Maize God is called “Jun Nal Ye,” but the composite glyph that represents this name is a lot richer:

. Every single detail of the three syllabic phonetic elements in the composite glyph is meaningful, and most of these details are dropped by the transliteration. Some of them may be contradictory, and the meaning such contradictions carry tell us a lot about the very nature of this God who is born every spring and who dies every fall. This writing system is absolutely fascinating and the MET of New York just burry it without even giving some examples of this brilliant and awesome writing system.

 

Academia.edu Comment

Jacques Coulardeau uploaded a paper

The Mayas were colonized in the old days by the Spaniards. Their books were burned. Their temples were abandoned. Their writing was banned. A real culturicide along with European epidemics that destroyed more than half the population. What is being revived, resuscitated today?

 

ENTRE IA & LES ÉCRANS LE THÉÄTRE EST EN QUESTION 

SQUEEZED BETWEEN AI & SCREENS, THEATER IS TRULY STRUGGLING

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The Journal “Théâtres du Monde” has just published its 34^th issue. I have two articles published in that journal. So here is first of all the table of contents of the 2024 issue, and I added to these three pages all the preparatory work I have done to write the two articles that deal with the series HUNTERS and the author Lorraine HANSBERRY. These reviews and critiques are all bilingual, English for some and French for the others.

 

I do feel like a raisin the sun. I also added some documents on the recent question brought up about race in the USA where some states are restricting the teaching of slavery and Black history in  the USA because it may, might, would, and I think SHOULD traumatize the poor white darlings who really need some traumatization about their imperialistic ideological terrorism.

 

It is rather amazing to see how many films streamed, produced or distributed by Amazon Prime Video are dealing with violence, and most of the time ethnic violence, even when it is pure gangsterism, the rank and file is often ethnic. This is  purely ideological bias.

 

2024, Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Race and Racism,  *  Theater and film,  *  Nazism,  *  TV Series,  *  Lorraine Hansberry

 

 

ACTION FILMS = FILMS MONGERING MENTAL ALIENATION

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Four films or series.

1-    John Woo’s Silent Night (2023),

2-    Doug Liman’s Road House (2024),

3-    Albert Hughes’s The Continental (2023),

4-    Marcela Saïd and Julien Despaux’s Ourika (2024),

all seen on Amazon’s Prime Video, hence distributed by Amazon Prime Video, all dealing with violence in our societies and all claiming that violence is justified top answer and respond to a violent society, a violence coming from outside our community, and that outside can introduce anti-immigrant accusations or plainly racist claims, both anti-white and anti-any-ethnicity.

 Does it help us understand this violence ? Does these films enable us to devise a proper response to prevent and solve such violence? Both times, a resounding NO. But in both cases, it plays in  the hands of the most extreme forces on the nationalist side of life, the side that refuses to consider those who are not pure according to their definitions as the cause of all our problems, and not only those people but also all products that may come from the countries concerned by these ethnic groups. This is true in the USA, in Canada, with Mexico playing the wide-open gate to the previous two, and all over Europe.

 What game are these streaming services playing? Preparing coming elections! But it might go the wrong way for them. Now what is the wrong way? Good question. No answer because the ballot boxes will be the only valid answer. First stop, the European Elections in June 2024.

 2024, Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com

Violence,  *  Race and Racism,  *  Youth gangs,  *  Racist Violence,  *  Racial Violence,  *  American Gangsters

 

IS BUDDHIST NIBBANA WORTH A BOY-TO-BOY’S KISS?

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Mo Xiang’s third volume of the saga on The Blessing of a Heaven Official is there in front of me and this saga is emanating with so much force that no one can resist the tanha that tells them “Go For It! There is pleasure in it all!” I am sure you want to discover the pleasure there is in these volumes, but remember the authoress is a woman and as such she develops a sweet, soft, and catching psychology that will turn you completely berserk if you do not keep your feet well anchored in the earth.

The King Ghost Hua Cheng from Ghost City is behind every move the ascended Xie Lian is inspiring or is inspired by and for. His meeting this Xie Lian after 800 years of supernatural and surreal life in our vast cosmos was so mind-stirring, intelligence-moving, and body-inspiring that the pure ascetic Buddhist he is supposed to be, nearly fell into the cauldron of eroticism. He managed not to fall, but that was very close this time since he was unconscious and Hua Cheng took advantage of the situation and pretended that he had to save his “friend” before he drowned, though Hua Cheng knew perfectly well Xie Lian could not drown, hence cannot die. But, well, Hua Cheng kissed Xie Lian unconscious as he was, I mean in his unconscious mind, because Xie Lian was unconscious, and thus he could kiss him since he could not protest. What a twisted and I guess tortured mind he is. He should try Buddhist meditation to hypnotize himself into plain decent abstinence.

But sure enough, the encounter with the Venerable of Empty Words promises to be a fair adventure in which Xie Lian’s mind and body will be chastised, abused, and even probably raped. There will be quite a lot of repair work to do on the psyche and the conscious rightfulness of our Xie Lian. I guess Hua Cheng will take advantage of such situations to steal a couple more kisses. Never trust a ghost because they have no soul anymore and they have no honor either. So, lying, pretending, and even impersonating what they are not to seduce their gullible victims is some kind of sport for these fuzzy beings, if they can really BE.

Enormous sagas, like this one, are no longer a standard form of literature in the West, apart from Stephen King and Anne Rice. But the Chinese have always practiced it and the new generation of writers in China are entirely committed to enormous works of literature in many different genres and styles. Soon these authors are going to hit the screens and not in stories for children like the Japanese adaptation of the Journey to the West.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

12 Pages

Buddhism,  *  Poetry,  *  Cultural History Of Ghosts,  *  China,  *  Doctrine of God

 

OPPENHEIMER, WHEN THE US STARTED TO LOSE THEIR  ETHICS

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Oppenheimer is an essential character in US history. He is the left-leaning Jew who provided the USA with the Atom Bomb that enabled the US to defeat Japan faster than the planned standard land and air attack by the Soviets and the Chinese Communists, officially endorsed in the Yalta Conference ( 4–11 February 1945) by Churchill, Truman, and Stalin. Truman did not have the atomic bomb yet and will only have it in July 1945. So, he bluffed and agreed with the Soviet plan because he had no alternative … yet. He reneged his agreement in July-August 1945, and he dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945. The victory over Germany was a joint effort. The victory over Japan was a self-centered and egotistic solitary procedure not even negotiated with the allies of the US. The United Kingdom might have been informed, maybe. But the USSR was not. The Americans were already and had been for nearly two centuries, on the “America First” and “Make America Great Forever” lines that we have known all along and directly since 1918.

 

And within 9 years Oppenheimer will be ostracized because he was leaning to the left and there were Communists around him. He submitted and disappeared in some sideline university job. He had nowhere to go, as opposed to Charlie Chaplin who went back to England. As a Jew, he could have gone to Israel, but that was not a real optimistic solution at the time. He might even have gone to the USSR with his communist wife. But he stayed put in the USA, in his closet-university-job. The film does not really explore this dilemma: hide away in the USA, go to the Jewish Israel, or go to the USSR. On one hand, it was his old depressive nature that came back. On the other hand, it would have been going back to his faith and his roots, even if it could have looked like treason. On the third hand, on yet another other hand, it would have been plain treason.

 

The special features on the second DVD do not correct this mystery and do not even envisage it, in real terms. Yet the bio-doc there insists tremendously on his left-leaning connections. If he had been black, he could have moved to Paris where Black American authors and musicians were vastly welcome. In France, he could have worked with the Joliot-Curies, though Frédéric Joliot-Curie was against working for nuclear weapons. He refused the demand from the French government. But The film and the special features lock Oppenheimer in a strange straitjacket of an obsessive psychotic prison, till the end of his life with only one single supporter named in the marginal side ditch of the story, John Fitzgerald Kennedy who voted against the ostracization of Oppenheimer in the US Senate. One vote out of – at the time – ninety-six.

 

I will regret that the special features did not insist enough on the basic, fundamental, and unethical treason of Joseph – like Stalin – McCarthy though in perfect line with the Monroe Doctrine of the Manifest Destiny of the USA to dominate forever the whole world. Imagine the frustration of all the MAGA supporters who will never see that, except if the USA starts the third world war with nuclear weapons. And try to survive after that.

 No one can imagine what makes a film great in the West. It has to caress you on your umbilical egocentricism, and in this case the USA is the greatest entity in the cosmos, even if Truman is nothing but a nearly misspelled Trump.

 Éditions La Dondaine, Medium.com, 2024

10 Pages

Comparative Politics,  *  Jewish Studies,  *  Nuclear Weapons,  *  Yalta,  *  Modernism and Posmodernism in Post World War Two North America