Documented Plans of the Masters of Mankind

Here is a sweet note by George Kennan who headed the State Department planning staff until 1950. It is a document he wrote in 1948. I selected this text from a book by Noam Chomsky called How The World Works, and the text starts on page 11...

"We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population...In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this disparity...To do so, we will have to dispense with all sentimentality and daydreaming; and our attention will have to be concentrated everywhere on our immediate national objectives...We should cease talk about vague and...unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratization. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better."


So "the day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts"? It looks like the flexing of those muscles are happening on a real, unreported, yet massive scale in the countries we commit war crimes in, according to the Geneva Conventions, every day. What Kennan is talking about, I think, is what is now manifesting as the Occupy Wall Street protests, and, to a certain extent, many of the Tea Party's grievances.

Thanks for your readership here,

eVan

Hands Together For Japan: Art Auction

Hello everyone in the virtual realms of blogging, Twitter, and any other electronic socializations! Facebook is not included here because you can't look at this event that I posted there on my artist's page without signing up or logging in. Here you can look at it without any more effort than a single click! I am sharing an art auction event in which I contributed a print of mine called Megalopolis Untitled Number Nine 28. The sales money will go to help people in Japan recover from the tsunami and nuclear power plant disaster there. You all are invited to attend and maybe purchase some truly original art work for a wonderful cause! Thank you... 

http://www.crowdrise.com/amurthandstogetherforjapan/fundraiser/peacepal

Summary of Qualifications:

-  One man show at O'Niell's Pub on Juan Tabo, Albuquerque, NM - May 2011
-  Five works shown at the Hardback Cafe in Hastings Bookstore on Juan Tabo, Albuquerque, NM - April 2011
-  Two works shown in The Body Show at 105 Art Gallery, Albuquerque, NM - February 2011
-  One man show at O'Neill's Pub, Albuquerque, NM - December 2010
-  Three 3D works displayed at 105 Art Gallery for The Gift of Art Small Works show, Albuquerque, NM - December 2010
-  Three paintings shown at 105 Art Gallery for the Pushing The Limits show, Downtown Albuquerque, NM - November 2010
-  Three prints from "Wrecked Tangles (Encircled)" online art series shown at [AC]2 Gallery's Drawn To Painting artist exhibition, Albuquerque, NM - November 2010
-  Two paintings displayed at The Flying Star Cafe in Nob Hill, Albuquerque, NM - Summer/Fall 2010
-  Two works displayed in The Art of Sensuality at [AC]2 Gallery as part of fifteen artist show, Albuquerque, NM – February/March 2010
-  Paintings displayed at Satellite Cafe by Cottonwood Mall, Albuquerque, NM – Winter 2008/2009
-  Paintings displayed at The Flying Star Cafe, Bernalillo, NM – Fall/Winter 2008
-  Paintings displayed at Satellite Cafe at Uptown, Albuquerque, NM – Summer/Fall 2008
-  Paintings displayed at Satellite Cafe in Nob Hill, Albuquerque, NM – Spring/Summer 2008
-  Paintings displayed at The Flying Star Cafe, Downtown Albuquerque,
NM – Spring 2008
-  Special entry into The Master Works of New Mexico Tenth Annual Competition, Albuquerque, NM – Spring 2008
-  Painting sold at O'Neill's Pub, Albuquerque, NM - Summer 2008
-  Paintings Displayed at O'Neill's Pub, Albuquerque, NM - Summer 2008
-  Artist affiliated with The Judith Shaw Gallery - Summer 2007
-  Painting sold - Heller Art Images, Omaha, NE - 2006
-  Artist affilliated with Heller Art Images, Omaha, NE - 2005 to 2006
-  Two paintings displayed in "The Street of Dreams" show home event in Omaha, NE - Summer 2006
-  Artist affilliated with Adventure In Art, Omaha, NE - 2005 to 2006
-  Two artist show - 13th Street Gallery, Omaha, NE - 2004
-  Purchase award for oil painting at Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE - 2003
-  Scholorship and best of show at Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, NE - 2002
-  One-man show - Borders Book Store, Omaha, NE - 2001
-  One-man show - Java Books, Riverside, CA - 2000
-  One-man show - The Wing Art Gallery, Moreno Valley, CA - 1999
-  Special Presentation - Agora Gallery, Soho, New York City - 1996
-  Several Showings - Mugsy's Cafe, Riverside,  CA - 1996 to 1998
-  Two shows - Life Arts Building, Riverside, CA - 1995/1996
-  Two man show - Skinny Gallery at The Press Enterprise, Riverside, CA - 1995
-  Painting shown in Muse Magazine, Vol. VIII, Issue I, 1994, Arts and Literature, Riverside Community College, Riverside, CA - 1994
-  Three shows sponsored by The Press Enterprise for high school competitions in surrounding area at Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA - 1991-1993
-  Special Mention with Ramona Highschool for The Press-Enterprise High School Arts Competition - 1992
-  Purchase Award with Ramona Highschool for The Press-Enterprise High School Arts Competition - 1991

Wrecked Tangles (Encircled) L series on Facebook at Art of eVan fan page

Wrecked Tangle L9

3D Wrecked Tangle Art Projects

3D Cardboard Car

Fates, Alternative Realities, and Twists on Personal Paths

I'm figuring out how to turn depressing existential funks into works of art that somehow uplift and inspire. Is that possible? I believe twists of fate are real. I've learned from success oriented people such as Jim Britt that everyone has a blueprint, if you will, of the amount of money they believe they are worth and can earn. It doesn't matter how good you are at something if your blueprint for success is consistently the same year after year. One way to gauge what that figure is for you on that blueprint is to look at your gross income at the end of each year and see what general, consistent figure you get. I've heard it explained that this blueprint is the same kind of blueprint for those who exercise. People will generally stay within a certain exercise routine and expect to lose weight, but they don't because they stay within a certain routine rather than push themselves or try something different.

I wanted to suggest that when it comes to money that I don't think it's always best to work harder. This can exhaust you and make you incapable of earning more wealth. Why am I talking about money since I've made some definitely clear remarks in the virtual world that I disagree with corporate-ocracy? That's a good question. Well, I believe there is nothing wrong with working to earn something. The difference that I define for myself is that I would rather work for myself than someone or something else that has no problem in defining my whole life for me. I find my grandfather inspiring because he was a farmer in Eastern Nebraska. He grew crops and raised live-stock year after year. He ran his own business essentially, and served the well-being of others through this kind of production. He also invested in the stock-market to earn even more money. He was pretty smart with this according to my dad.

My strengths and passions obviously center around the creative fields. Most notably image making, and writing. I truly believe that people have an appetite for what I create. Having a strength with ideas, seeing alternative futures, maximizing what resources I do have, seeing the individual strengths in myself and others, and having a commanding presence definitely contribute to the exciting things I will create in this world.

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The Oxen and the Wheels

From Aesop's Fables

A pair of Oxen wer drawing a heavily loaded wagon along a miry country road. They had to use all their strength to pull the wagon, but they did not complain.


The wheels of the wagon were of a different sort. Though the task they had to do was very light compared with that of the Oxen, they creaked and groaned at every turn. The poor Oxen, pulling with all their might to draw the wagon through the deep mud, had their ears filled with the loud complaining of the Wheels. And this, you may well know, made their work so much the harder to endure.


"Silence!" the Oxen cried at last, out of patience. "What have you Wheels to complain about so loudly? We are drawing all the weight, not you, and we are keeping still about it besides."

They complain most who suffer least.