Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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You could argue that’s already happening on TikTok. I’ve also seen other people commenting on how surrealism’s all over the place again too.

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For the same reason: I am 100% convinced that in a decade, when the people who were kids when covid hit grew up, we are going to end up with new art forms as they find the old ones are insufficient to their expressive needs.

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So, I'm trying something here. In full transparency, if you're wondering, are there spicier texts under the cut? The answer is absolutely, entirely yes.

proclaim libertywww.lifeisasacredtext.com many declarations, interwoven

Just stumbled on this Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture, ca. 1865. Thought today was a great day to share an image of white men abolishing slavery arranged in a shape Georgia O'Keefe would recognize. Happy 4th! Burn the white supremacist heteropatriarchy! npg.si.edu/object/npg_N...

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And the reason the UK adopted coal so early is because we decimated our forests to build war ships in the early days of colonisation. And having adopted coal so early helped lead to the industrial revolution (much better for furnaces and engines than wood) which enabled the full on British empire.

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British food has a reputation for boiling everything to death in part because they were one of the earliest countries to adopt coal as a cooking fuel. It's far hotter than wood and hard to "turn down", so water was used to moderate the cooking temperature.

So, I'm trying something here. In full transparency, if you're wondering, are there spicier texts under the cut? The answer is absolutely, entirely yes.

proclaim libertywww.lifeisasacredtext.com many declarations, interwoven

! (Prince --> the disability thread underneath)

That was probably one of the reasons why he hated doing interviews, he had to sit still and talk normally.

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Just found a beautiful writeup on this by someone with similar medical issues: karriehiggins.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/p...

Prince and the Sparkle Brains (cw: disability, ableism, sexual abuse)karriehiggins.wordpress.com The day Prince died, I was walking to the audiologist office to pick out hearing aids, Purple Rain playing on my purple iPod, my lipstick-red walking cane tapping its drumbeat on the sidewalk, vibrati...

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Lots of Renaissance paintings that have strange proportions or forced perspectives were Altar pieces, where you would see them at a high angle. These compositional tricks were meant to compensate for that angle view.

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"Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" hits different when you realize it was written by the child of a survivor.

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Western art history mostly stems from Vasari's "Lives", which was primarily political propaganda to prove modernity in art originated in Tuscany, as to please Vasari's patron and protector, Cosimo di Medici, on his quest to become Duke. Academic interest in art was political from the get-go.

To say nothing of the punk / post punk bands that had explicit 3rd Reich references as everyone that gen tried to process

I've always thought that the fact that so many early punks were the children of holocaust survivors shaped the music as a function of generational trauma.

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Chinese blue and white porcelain was developed for export to Western Asia and initially catered to an Islamic artistic taste, hence its visual complexity, vegetal/floral patterns, and color palette.

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Impressionism and social realism wouldn't have emerged the way they did without the technological inovation that was tubed paint. It facilitated outdoors painting, natural and urban observation, and therefore a new focus on everyday subjects compared to classical painting bound by the workshop.

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Anpanman, a beloved children’s character in Japan who is an anthropomorphic piece of bread with red bean paste, was born out of the deprivation its creator felt in a WWII prison camp. So, why Anpanman’s superpower is others eating a slice of him to gain strength museum.anpanman-acm.co.jp/sphone/en/

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

Anpanman Children's Museummuseum.anpanman-acm.co.jp Play in the world of Anpanman! A museum filled with the world from the animated TV show 'Let's Go! Anpanman! See, feel, experience and play lots!

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I enjoyed that anecdote by Freddie; especially the part about how Sid backed down and left after someone stood up to him.

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Side-note, but one thing that should be on a Dem legislative agenda is formally codifying academic standards for what can legally be called a university and have the authority to grant valid qualifications. Make it clear that Bob Jones, Liberty, etc are vanity grift organisations and nothing more.

And remember, the Christian Right only took up abortion as a topic after they lost school segregation for good when the IRS went after Bob Jones’ U status, & needed a new issue to rally the troops. 1/x all our issues are intertwined. 🧵

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Less well known is that the Clash were also basically a manufactured boy band, created to compete against the Pistols.

No, let’s do this properly: The Sex Pistols were a boy band that was formed in order to sell clothing. Look it up.

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The heavy metal sound was created because Tony Iommi lost two fingertips working in a factory and had to downtune his guitar

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Baseball umpire signals are also believed to be due to deaf players, though which nineteenth century player is responsible is disputed. (Some of the signals, especially "safe" and "out" are transparently taken from ASL.)

The Deaf and the Origin of Hand Signals in Baseball – Society for American Baseball Researchsabr.org

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Early in the UK punk scene punk shows used to spin reggae between bands. So punk bands started playing covers but it didn’t gel till Specials founder Jerry Dahmers brought a Prince Buster record to practice & said “this is uptempo so it’s gonna work better”. Hence 2nd wave ska apple.co/44Sq8TI

‎Junk Filter: 168: Second Wave Ska (with Elana Levin) on Apple Podcastsapple.co ‎Show Junk Filter, Ep 168: Second Wave Ska (with Elana Levin) - May 14, 2024

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Jews invented manga. Ok not so simple, but "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka's narrative style was profoundly influenced by Milt Gross's "He Done Her Wrong," one of the earliest examples of what we now call the "graphic novel." (scholarly paper here) media.wix.com/ugd/aa7d16_7...

He Done Her Wrong - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

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Virtually every piece of modern comics/animation can be traced back to the Takarazuka Revue, a Japanese all-women theater that - while not explicitly queer - absolutely is part of queer culture. "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka based his characters on the way performers stylized their make-up.

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To add to this. Hiberno-English is one of the few versions that has the habitual "be" - to differentiate between transient and permanent states. The only other one, afaik, is AAVE. The thought is that Irish immigrants taught this to Black Americans as they interacted very often with each other.

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Not sure if this counts, but the reason folks in Ireland speak English a bit differently (not just accent, but syntax, etc.) is because colonialism destroyed our native language (almost). What you're hearing is English words but Irish language grammar and syntax.

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The Victorian mauve fashion craze came about following Queen Victoria & Empress Eugénie's choice of mauve fashion because an 18yo undergrad chemist William Henry Perkin discovered what became the 1st synthetic organic dye when cleaning black sludge after a failed attempt to make quinine for malaria.

No, let’s do this properly: The Sex Pistols were a boy band that was formed in order to sell clothing. Look it up.

Johnny Rotten was recruited to be a punk singer when he walked into a store with a homemade shirt that said "I hate pink floyd"

Here’s the post in which I do a close text study of the Southern Baptist Convention’s abortion resolutions, 1971-2009. You see not only the shift in what they preach, but how they preach it—and why. Once, SBC said abortion was a “purely private matter between a woman and her doctor.” Go figure.

W.A. Criswell, leader of the ultra-fundamentalist party in the Southern Baptist Convention, explicitly said in the early 70s that life began with the first breath.

Abortion Bans Are a Violation of Religious Freedomwww.lifeisasacredtext.com Come and Learn

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Frank Herbert wrote Dune because he was terrified of JFK. Specifically because the public adulation and feverish love that would later be called the Camelot mythology around the Kennedys frightened the hell out of him. It inspired him to write a book deconstructing the myth of the hero leader.