You know, I mentioned Yin and Yang on one of my previous blog posts, I also mentioned Yin and Yang when commenting on a political site at “Truthdig”. Let me be clear, I do not consider myself an expert on Yin And Yang nor much of anything else, but when learning art we where taught the importance of Yin and Yang in art as opposing differences or opposites, also over time I picked up some more ideas on the meaning of Yin and Yang by osmosis. Evidently my accounting of Yin and Yang was a blasphemy of western proportions and according to the Yin and Yang police I have a limited consciousness…which may have something to do with an accident I had with a bowling ball and a garage door opener. According to the Yin Yang police it means two sides of a one sided coin? I latched right onto that two sides on a one sided coin, like making sure to wear concrete shoes every time I go swimming. Being a skeptic in general and in specific about absolutism’s, such as Yin and Yang, I decided to paint a picture of Yin and Yang… well it came out different than I remember it, my painting depicts a slightly hairy renegade bowling ball disguised as Yin and Yang.
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Falling roofs among other things la vignette
The real roof over many peoples heads has fallen in, while a metaphorical roof seems to be falling in over most of our heads, as we watch the full of themselves solipsist’s constantly preform their political Kabuki drama of opportunism and one-upmanship shift shaping differences and the similarities of a disappearing the ever less different left playing catch up, merging with the right always attempting to out manipulate the other, with the right power grabbing here and the left grabbing less there, an allusive never ending dance of alleged difference.
As a skeptical believer of yin and yang, (scepticism which I am aware is ironic) the ever presence of two opposites seems to be before my eyes in my daily life, right and wrong, hot and cold conservative and liberal, ham and eggs, girls and boys…. well strike the last one.
In the world of yin and yang, there is always the opposites, covering everything, though it must be in my nature for some unknown reason to continue my never ending quest to discredit Yin and Yang? So for now, Yin and Yang can cover anything from art to politicks, religion to facts the ever presence of opposites, the opposing two, for instance in the arts of painting there is Yin and Yang of light and dark, the red and blue and then we have the Yin and Yang of politicks, the Republicans and the Democrats, good and bad, the conservative and the liberal. I find the Yin and Yang of politics so much more confusing compared to most things like astro science and the Pope. In politics it takes a tremendous amount of sifting to see, through the endless overwhelming fuzzy Kabuki Theatrics, which makes me wonder at things like Fox News for then, apparently no Yin and Yang their? In my case I am always questioning, separating those well choreographed hidden constant manipulations, never ending going ons, supposedly behind some dark curtain, shadowy figures fighting over who will end up pulling the strings, while the common folk gathers tidbits from trickle down mealy pablum.
So it seems to me, the common human may be doomed to a simple Ying and Yang of life and death But the idea of life and death has been changed, for it seems to have been bastardized by Republicans to mean; The Yin of a twinkle in the eye and Yang to mean to birth, for it appears in the powerful world of hypocrisy, after birth the living do not matter. To be used… yes, sending children into a world to starve on the street or die in someone’s made up war, usually a chicken hawks game of war. Where is the Ying and Yang in that? To bring one into the world then outwardly despise them? The aristocracy and the serfs? To be born poor or become part of the middle class, to learn unions are dogs to be put down and the huddled masses are to be manipulated like puppets depending on the whims of the few, supported by cronies. The so full of themselves few, as the monied, the entitled, the new nobles who just happen to be filthy rich and have the money to make more money, you know after all it takes hard work to obtain and buy power, This is the Yin and Yang of the haves and the have nots, the rich and the not so rich, the filthy rich and the filthy masses, some have the Yin of a roof over their head and others have the yang of of a bridge over theirs… yes, I think I got it.