Shelby Steele and the Art of Great Art

Through punishment, learnings, exposure, discipline, and a desire to fulfill expression, I have been forced in life to be overwhelmed by Great Art and the attempt to understand how it is caused, and why it has disappeared from the Western scene, perhaps the World scene.

Despite the commercial and political corruptions of our day, some art is far, far greater than other art. Most Americans have no touch, no breath, ear, mind, or body, to be touched by its greatness in these days of political correctness and the disappearance of knowledge from the American classrooms at nearly all levels.

We are made shorn of our nature to be uplifted.

Many, if not most Americans today, cannot recognize beauty beyond the oceans of the mundane. Sex and drugs are the sales pitches of the dullness of modern life. Art is reduced to the banal, the street, the grunt.

Great art arouses the soul. There is no great art without soul for its creation or recognition. It is swept into form by the skill, feel, and power of the artist. It’s origin is almost always from the human male, for such emotion is in his makeup, his mind, his being, his drive.

I am overwhelmed each time I read the following, believe it or not, article in the Wall Street Journal some years ago, written by Shelby Steele, who until the moment of my reading, I had never known his name.

I find it perhaps the most beautifully expressed combination of words and meaning of my lifetime about a truth in life:

SHELBY STEELE:

“ What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good. It could be above moral vanity. And so it made no special promises to me as a minority. It neglected me in every way except as a human being who wanted freedom.

Until my encounter with conservatism, I had only known the racial determinism of segregation on the one hand and of white liberalism on the other; two varieties of white supremacy in which I could only be dependent and inferior.
The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism; human rather than racial dignity.

“Conservatism “seeks the discipline of ordinary people rather than the virtuousness of extraordinary people. The challenge for conservatives today is simply self-acceptance, and even a little pride in the way we flail away at problems with an invisible hand.”

(The above article was a writing by Mr. Steele printed in the Wall Street Journal.)

Little Dutch Girl sings a Puccini favorite…

While America’s goverments force schools to dwell on nurturing emotions rather than teaching knowledge and skills, folks in some cultures find competing paths.

Check out the ‘little’ Dutch girl, nine years old, who has achieved an unusual advance from likely a natural gift which might have been lost in the disorder of the typical American public school teaching ‘feelings’.

(Please forgive the schmaltz and rudeness of the, well what should they be called, judges?)

(article sent by Arlene Taber)

THE AMERICAN URBAN BLACK INNER CITY RULED BY DEMOCRATS FOR 60 YEARS

Throughout western history Liberal-Marxists come to control learnings and language to subvert cultures they cannot overthrow by chaos and/or war. They are religiously motivated.

For nearly 60 years the Democrat Party has menaced the American urban black culture with its oneParty, oneDictatorship control over the brains and brawn of the American urban black. With few exceptions as these communities lost their fathers due to Liberal politics and policies of the 1950s, and the institutional propaganda to blame white, conservative America, for their moral, educational, social, lingual, religious, and economic collapse during these years of Democrat Party autocracy, their culture slipped into exercising rape, drugs, pillage, and burn, and government handouts for business.

How can it be that for sixty years of Lefty Democrat control over every black urban community in the country, no one seems to be aware of this universal fact and who is truly responsible?

Could it be that those who politically own these cities, white and black, should be held responsible for their crimes, political and otherwise? How can that happenen in a dictatorship?

The most politically affective racist institutions in America today are black, the Black Congressional Congress, and the NAACP.

A major trick of their trade is to control language, to censor one and all suspected dangers to these lefty racists bought to lead these communities by the Democrats. Censorship in Marxist dictatorships everywhere win elections by 90% plus margins for only one voice is allowed, or else.

In reality any criticism or unwanted observations, no matter how true, of anything black whatsoever uttered by a conservative has been programmed to be CENSORED by threats, lies, and assaults from Democrat black leaders and the leftwing press corps empire as “proof” of racism against these Democrat-owned blacks and their territory.

The worst, most uncivilized, most violent, most poorly educated and underemployed communities, whose families have become most universally corrupted by leftwing politics over the past 60 years have lived under Democrat Party dictatorships.

Most recently Paul Ryan has been declared by these lefty tyrants as a white bigot…..while black bigots have no problem what language and action they take in the name of blackness……a white can even be called a bigot by merely breathing within the lefty world of controlled learning and teaching.

What happens to a free society when true statments are banned because a racial or sexual group, declares it offensive? The culture becomes tyrannical….end of story.

A most recent victim by Democrat racists is Wisconsin Republican, Representative Paul Ryan. Click below to become more acquainted with his crimes claimed by Democrats:

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/17/paul_ryans_race_flap_even_worse_than_it_looks/

http://billmoyers.com/2014/03/16/is-paul-ryan-racist/

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/18/the-liberal-slandering-of-paul-ryan/