Comments on: Thoughts on the Mosaic Cosmonaut http://cultureby.com/2006/06/thoughts_on_mos.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/06/thoughts_on_mos.html/comment-page-1#comment-4370 Grant Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:39:09 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=675#comment-4370 Jay Walker, I have heard that hazing in the army is horrific. Also I happened to visit a hospital kept for people who lose limbs as a result of falling asleep in snow banks. There are many hazards. And, yes, traffic. Apparently, drivers have absolute right of way. They can and do just run people over. This is not as in the Boston case because they were aiming for them. It's just the thing. Thanks, Grant Duncan, fabulous, thank you, I was thinking the cosmonaut looked even a little christ like, unlikely in a communist russia, but you never know. And he also reminded me of the statuary you seen pinned to an English tomb when the occupant is a knight. There is a knightly tradition here, and this is a culture that remembers St. George almost as iconically as the English do. And I was just wondering... Thanks for your magnificently informed point of view. Best, Grant Jay Walker, I have heard that hazing in the army is horrific. Also I happened to visit a hospital kept for people who lose limbs as a result of falling asleep in snow banks. There are many hazards. And, yes, traffic. Apparently, drivers have absolute right of way. They can and do just run people over. This is not as in the Boston case because they were aiming for them. It’s just the thing. Thanks, Grant

Duncan, fabulous, thank you, I was thinking the cosmonaut looked even a little christ like, unlikely in a communist russia, but you never know. And he also reminded me of the statuary you seen pinned to an English tomb when the occupant is a knight. There is a knightly tradition here, and this is a culture that remembers St. George almost as iconically as the English do. And I was just wondering… Thanks for your magnificently informed point of view. Best, Grant

]]> By: J. Duncan Berry http://cultureby.com/2006/06/thoughts_on_mos.html/comment-page-1#comment-4369 J. Duncan Berry Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:49:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=675#comment-4369 The mosaic cosmonaut visually condenses the cultural stretch you describe — the composition and technique derive from the Justinian mosaics of Ravenna (as does the oddly nimbus-like helmet), while the formal sensibility is an appeal to the bold cylidrical forms of Fernand Léger's mechano-cubism of the 1920s. The result? A tectonic screeching of two mutually incompatible world views. It was this preposterous concoction, this cultural Esperanto, that impverished the souls and lives of millions for generations behind the Iron Curtain. The landscape of Eastern and Central Europe is still strewn with every imaginable Eperantesque permutation of Communism's tagically confused cultural aspirations. The mosaic cosmonaut visually condenses the cultural stretch you describe — the composition and technique derive from the Justinian mosaics of Ravenna (as does the oddly nimbus-like helmet), while the formal sensibility is an appeal to the bold cylidrical forms of Fernand Léger’s mechano-cubism of the 1920s. The result? A tectonic screeching of two mutually incompatible world views. It was this preposterous concoction, this cultural Esperanto, that impverished the souls and lives of millions for generations behind the Iron Curtain. The landscape of Eastern and Central Europe is still strewn with every imaginable Eperantesque permutation of Communism’s tagically confused cultural aspirations.

]]> By: jaywalker http://cultureby.com/2006/06/thoughts_on_mos.html/comment-page-1#comment-4368 jaywalker Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:34:28 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=675#comment-4368 Women suffered a smaller reverse (74 to 73 years vs. 63 to 60 for men), so it cannot be the health care system. It must be male behaviour and institutions. Three things kill the men: 1) an underfunded, underled army that mistreats its young conscripts 2) a large prison population that breeds germs and diseases 3) cheap booze (and tolerance of public drunkeness). Probably, rotten driving skills will account also for a number of deaths. Women suffered a smaller reverse (74 to 73 years vs. 63 to 60 for men), so it cannot be the health care system. It must be male behaviour and institutions. Three things kill the men:
1) an underfunded, underled army that mistreats its young conscripts
2) a large prison population that breeds germs and diseases
3) cheap booze (and tolerance of public drunkeness).

Probably, rotten driving skills will account also for a number of deaths.

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