Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Crime is business, Police work is a spiritual vocation
CRIME OVERALL & POLICE
ROUTINE
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/crime-overall-police-routine-7b501e48cb42
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
Monday, April 22, 2024
Awesome Mayas and their temples
Let Them Speak In Glyphs
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/let-them-speak-in-glyphs-865f9b61926b
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?
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
All Along for so far 300,000 years
The 3 Literacies of Modern Age
Review of the Trikirion of Communication:
Symboleracy, Numeracy and Techneracy
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/the-3-literacies-of-modern-age-74a586cc5ee8
1- The self-learner’s desires.
Dr. Atila Yildirim, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey.
BP International, India & UK
ISBN 978-81-971665-4-9 (Print)
978-81-971665-9-4 (eBook)
Published on March 29, 2024
Didactics, * Self-regulated Learning, * Pedagogy, * Self-directed learning, * Guidance and Counseling
Monday, April 15, 2024
Racism has deep roots in the West
ENTRE IA & LES ÉCRANS LE
THÉÄTRE EST EN QUESTION
SQUEEZED BETWEEN AI & SCREENS, THEATER IS
TRULY STRUGGLING
The Journal “Théâtres du Monde” has just
published its 34th 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
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Why so much ethnic violence in action films?
ACTION FILMS = FILMS
MONGERING MENTAL ALIENATION
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/action-films-films-mongering-mental-alienation-41ef92860831
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.
Violence, * Race
and Racism, * Youth
gangs, *
Racist
Violence, * Racial
Violence, * American
Gangsters
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Buddhism deeply at work in modern Chinese literature
IS BUDDHIST NIBBANA WORTH A
BOY-TO-BOY’S KISS?
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/is-buddhist-nibbana-worth-a-boy-to-boys-kiss-0bb85526e313
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
Monday, March 18, 2024
Trum-an inspired Trum-p with a MAG-Forever. WHAT FOOLS!!
OPPENHEIMER, WHEN THE US
STARTED TO LOSE THEIR ETHICS
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