Kilroy is a familiar "meme" from WWII. There are many speculations as to why it was a prominent cartoon figure during those turbulent times. One of the things we did to bring good cheer, just when we needed it most.
It was a doodle, it was a message, and it helped lonely soldiers unite and not feel alone. Much like we do today over Coffee or by sending notes of encouragement.
"At the height of his popularity, Kilroy could be found just about everywhere: in bathrooms and on bridges, in school cafeterias and on homework assignments, in the holds of Navy ships and painted on the shells of Air Force missiles. A classic Bugs Bunny cartoon from 1948, "Haredevil Hare," shows just how deeply Kilroy had penetrated into pop culture: thinking he's the first rabbit to land on the moon, Bugs is oblivious to the slogan "Kilroy was here" prominently etched on a rock behind him." (thoughtco.com)
And so, Kilroy lives on. A good memory, one that can bring a smile to your face.
#kilroy #VeteranAppreciation #militaryhistory
Traditionally, long hair was always a symbol of masculinity. All of history's great warriors had long hair, from the Greeks (who wrote odes to their heroes' hair) to the Nordic, from the American Indians (famous for their long shiny hair) to the Japanese. And the longer and beautiful the hair was, the more manly the warrior was considered. Vikings flaunted their braids and samurai wore their long hair as a symbol of their honor (they cut their braid when they lose honor).
When a warrior was captured, his mane was cut to humiliate him, to take away his beauty. That custom resumed in what is today military service. There when new soldiers begin their training the first thing they do is cut their hair to undermine their self-esteem, make them submissive and make them see who's boss.
The Romans were the ones who "invented" short hair so to speak, between the 1st and 5th centuries AD.. In battles they believed this gave them defensive advantages, since their opponents couldn't grab them by the hair. This also helped them to recognize each other in the battlefield.
Short hair on men is a relatively new "invention" that has nothing to do with aesthetics.
But today we often see men being humiliated, sometimes called "gay" for wearing long hair, not knowing that short hair is actually the "anti-masculine" and is a repressive social imposition, while long hair symbolizes freedom
"Looking back, the founding of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in 1898 seems especially remarkable, for the beginning was anything but auspicious. The 38-year-old founder, Frank A. Seiberling, purchased the company’s first plant with a $3,500 down payment — using money he borrowed from his brother-in-law, Lucius C. Miles. The rubber and cotton that were the lifeblood of the industry had to be transported from halfway around the world, to a landlocked town that had only limited rail transportation. Even the man the company’s name memorialized, Charles Goodyear, had died penniless 30 years earlier despite his discovery of vulcanization after a long and courageous search.
Yet the timing couldn't have been better. The bicycle craze of the 1890s was booming. The horseless carriage — some ventured to call it the automobile — was a wide-open challenge. Even the depression of 1893 was beginning to fade. So on August 29, 1898, Goodyear was incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000.
David E. Hill, who purchased $30,000 of stock, became the first president. But it was the dynamic and visionary founder, hard-driving Seiberling, who chose the name and determined the distinctive trademark. The winged-foot trademark, inspired by a newel-post statuette of Mercury in the Seiberling home, has been altered over the years. Yet, it remains an integral part of the Goodyear signature, a symbolic link with the company’s historic past..."
"In 1947 the House Committee on Un-American Activities began an investigation of the film industry, and Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy soon began to inveigh against what he claimed was Communist infiltration of the government. Broadcasting, too, felt the impact of this growing national witch-hunt. Three former members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) published "Counterattack: The Newsletter of Facts on Communism," and in 1950 a pamphlet, "Red Channels," listed the supposedly Communist associations of 151 performing artists. Anti-Communist vigilantes applied pressure to advertisers--the source of network profits. Political beliefs suddenly became grounds for getting fired. Most of the producers, writers, and actors who were accused of having had left-wing leanings found themselves blacklisted, unable to get work. CBS even instituted a loyalty oath for its employees. Among the few individuals in television well positioned enough and brave enough to take a stand against McCarthyism was the distinguished former radio reporter Edward R. Murrow. In partnership with the news producer Fred Friendly, Murrow began See It Now, a television documentary series, in 1950. On Mar. 9, 1954, Murrow narrated a report on McCarthy, exposing the senator's shoddy tactics. Of McCarthy, Murrow observed, "His mistake has been to confuse dissent with disloyalty." A nervous CBS refused to promote Murrow and Friendly's program. Offered free time by CBS, McCarthy replied on April 6, calling Murrow "the leader and the cleverest of the jackal pack which is always found at the throat of anyone who dares to expose Communist traitors." In this TV appearance, McCarthy proved to be his own worst enemy, and it became apparent that Murrow had helped to break McCarthy's reign of fear. In 1954 the U.S. Senate censured McCarthy, and CBS's "security" office was closed down."
(Apr 8, 2024 02:07 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: Anti-Communist vigilantes applied pressure to advertisers--the source of network profits.
Just like leftist, cancel culture activists nowadays, including the similarly monikered anti-racists.
Quote:Political beliefs suddenly became grounds for getting fired. Most of the producers, writers, and actors who were accused of having had left-wing leanings found themselves blacklisted, unable to get work.
Just like Gina Carano and many other Republicans/conservatives nowadays.
The left has literally become what they use to fight.
The conservatives' need to fearmonger and brand public figures and institutions as "leftist" (and so communist) has continued to this day. It is a paranoid and conspiratorial attempt to delegitimize opposing views as unamerican and subversive to Christian values. The spirit of McCarthy is alive and well in the GOP and always will be because they have nothing to appeal to other than fear of the other and the greed of the almighty dollar. That's why lying scumbag demagogues like Trump will always prevail with them no matter what he does. It is tyranny wrapped in the flag and waving a holy bible.
No, leftists openly support communism nowadays... only lending further credence to McCarthy era accusations.
Hollywood is now openly leftist. If you don't see that, you're blind. No conspiracy, just an obvious fact. And there's no need to fearmonger people who openly support Hamas and partial-birth abortion. It's actually the left that has to make up fearmongering "dog whistles" of racism, etc. to demonize their political opponents. But as usual, the left is pro at projecting their own traits on others. The closest thing to McCarthyism nowadays is the left's persecution of political opponents. It was once unheard of for one party to try to prosecute a former President of the opposite party, or jail political dissidents. That's what Banana Republics do.
The left, who wants to restrict the freedom of speech and self-defense, are the last with any moral authority to talk about tyranny. Especially when they can't point to a single, real example in Trump's 4 years.
That's why you're a leftist. You're just as deluded and paranoid.
"Beethoven and Goethe meet in the summer at the fashionable Bohemian spa of Teplice. The composer was then 41, the poet 62. Beethoven later reported: “How patient the great man was with me! How happy he made me then! I would have gone to death, yes, ten times to death for Goethe.”
Goethe wrote to his wife: “I have never met an artist so self-contained, so energetic and so fervent.” But shortly after he wrote to a friend noting: “His talent astounded me; nevertheless, he unfortunately has an utterly untamed personality, not completely wrong in thinking the world detestable, but hardly making it more pleasant for himself or others by his attitude. Yet he must be shown forgiveness and compassion, for he is losing his hearing, something that affects the musical part of his nature less than the social.”
1905
In 1905, Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis, “while also workingout the
quantum theory of light and a theory of the motion of small particles in
fluid, Einstein developed a new theory of space and time, now called the
special theory of relativity.”6 Jung
recalled that he had met Einstein in the
“very early days when [he] was developinghis first theory of relativity....
His genius as a thinker . . . exerted a lasting influence on my own intellectual work.”7 In the Tavistock lectures, Jung
remembered, “I pumped him
about his relativity theory. I am not gifted in mathematics. . . . I went fourteen feet deep into the floor and felt quite small.”8 In 1928, when Jung
received the German translation of a Chinese alchemical treatise called
“The Secret of the Golden Flower” from Richard Wilhelm, he felt immediate sympathy with the Chinese notion of time as a continuum in which
certain qualities manifest relatively simultaneously in different places. In
his 1929 essay on the “Golden Flower” and his 1930 Wilhelm memorial, Jung
made reference to what he would call synchronicity as a parallelism of
events that cannot be explained causally. Jung’s reading of alchemy took
him into a deep study of “all kinds of opposites” and, as he wrote twenty five years later, led eventually to his understanding of the unconscious as a
process.
1911
Ludwig Wittgenstein, aged 22, arrives in Cambridge to study philosophy under Bertrand Russell, aged 39: Within weeks Russell had decided that Wittgenstein was a genius: “Some of his early views made the decision difficult. He maintained, for example, at one time that all existential propositions are meaningless. This was in a lecture room, and I invited him to consider the proposition: ‘There is no rhinoceros in this room at present.’ When he refused to believe this, I looked under all the desks without finding one; but he remained unconvinced.”
Wittgenstein, for his part, later told his friend David Pinsent that Russell’s encouragement had proved his salvation, and ended nine years of loneliness and suffering, during which he had continually thought of suicide.
1938
Salvador Dalí, aged 34, visits Sigmund Freud, 82, in Hampstead, London: Shortly after his flight from Nazi-occupied Vienna, Dalí sketches Freud’s portrait. Dalí had been a fervent admirer since 1922 after reading The Interpretation of Dreams. Freud exclaimed: “That boy looks like a fanatic. Small wonder they have civil war in Spain if they look like that.”
Dalí recalled the meeting as one of the most important experiences of his life. Whenever he could, he boasted that he had obliged the founder of psychoanalysis to reconsider his entire view of surrealism."
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