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Blue Season – answers from an astronaut

Blue Season – answers from an astronaut

By Wendell W Solomons

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history had seen waves of demonstrations contribute to ending the Vietnam War. How would you, if need be, keep demonstrations off the street in cities such as New York, London and Paris?

Later, young people were to hang out and then drop out of street protests seemingly alone. The West hasn’t seen such waves of demonstrations since the 1960s.

Curious?

Lysergic acid, a hallucinogen, had been extracted in Sandoz Labs in Switzerland in 1938 through experimenting with a fungus affecting rye, the food grain.

Sandoz went into production of LSD in Switzerland in 1947 soon after World War 2. This pharmaceutical producer was owned by S. G. Warburg, a financial firm connected to US Federal Reserve founder Paul Warburg (‘Warburg’ was a name assumed by merchant Venice’s noted Abraham Del Banco family.)

When large-batch production of the mood-altering drug began, far away in Paul Warburg’s USA, an intelligence service received high-level directions to begin research into the effects of LSD on people. The program, code-named MKULTRA, was disclosed two decades later in a report to Congress.

Yet, the effects were long known to experimenters. A quantity as small as the weight of 1/10 of a grain of SAND produced hallucination.

The US food and drug Administration (FDA) put LSD on a list of restricted drugs. At the same time influential think-tank men such as Aldous Huxley were advocating the use of LSD. Their queer voices prevailed.

ATF – a contrast

Troopers of the ATF (Bureau of alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) had famously been signed in to tackle the Branch Davidians by President Bill Clinton’s attorney General and classmate Janet Reno.

The ATF troopers cast incendiary gas canisters into the wooden building of the Branch Davidians. The little-known group is thought to have been broken away by US intelligence from the Assemblies of God (the group was one of several used as pilot commune for behaviouralist studies by the agency.) Janet Reno’s incendiary gas triggered an inferno and besides sealing the lips of “David Khoresh” all adults and children in the Texas building perished too. Other such control groups where all subjects died were the People’s Temple and Heaven’s Gate (Paul Wilshire and more sources on the Net suggest David Khoresh was among the decoys whom the intelligence agency used for branching off the group)

Resuming..

Now, if you look at the Net you will notice that a ‘mysterious other’ kept troopers of the FDA away from rock concerts for young people when contract men were distributing packets of LSD (the Woodstock Festival came in August 1969). This included distribution at concerts of the Beatles.

A promoter who found the future Beatles, the independent Brian Epstein (he ran a record shop) was converted into a paid manager of EMI (or Electrical and mechanical Instruments, an axial UK defence contractor). The musicians then received their name “Beatles”, a commercial pun replacing their original, mundane name “Quarrymen.”

The play-by-ear performers had been reproducing Rock ’n Roll music imported from USA (where it had evolved from black America’s Boogie-Woogie). For the performers, poets then shadow-wrote songs such as “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (“LSD”). Musicologist drew on classical music (for instance, Tchaikovsky and Borodin) and EMI contributed with bankrolling the issue of Parlaphone-label disks and finally to the new compositions receiving broadcast hours. This combination suddenly pushed UK and US national audiences upwards from 3-chord music.

The rebellious Irishman in John Lennon wasn’t placated with the fame and fortune that arrived (at a command performance for the Queen he asked those with jewels to rattle them.) A sense of fair play caused him to glance from the West towards Asia.

EMI manager Epstein was withdrawn through his death in his London flat at age 32 and the Beatles were broken up. Lennon went on to crucifixion. Bullet holes entered his left side according to the autopsy report now on the Net and were thus fired from a service door (alleged plot-scripter Robert Rosen and the ‘New York Times’ had claimed in 1980 that ‘assailant’ Chapman fired while on Lennon’s right.)

New substance – Limitless “I”

In the aftermath of the artificial, drop-out subculture, two issues arose:

(1) The global South remained thick with dissent. Developing nations suspected that Northern elites were keeping off manufacturing industry in the South with an argument that small industry would employ more people. At the same time, India, China and the East Asian Tiger economies were seen developing modern manufacturing. So the anti-industrialisation fable began to falter. Conscientious academe – in both global South and North – had seen through the scheme of “Small is beautiful” (Western protectionists such as E F Schumacher and Dudley Seers.)

(2) After the zenith of protest rallies of the 1960s, the newly induced drug culture saw young people not only drop out of rallies and take to hippy lifestyle. Some chose to become yuppies (young upwardly mobile young people.) They took it that the office should afford them a BMW if they were singing along. So in both fashions, yuppie and hippy, true commitment to social and corporate institutions began to fade. Anglo-American innovation tapered off. Yet, how do you still control the world?

A new fable was required so as to keep the levers of control with the dynastial Bold and beautiful versus the world.

The new substance administered was “free to Choose”. The fable was injected into media by Nobel laureate Milton Friedman from 1976.

Its consequence, a cult of Limitless “I”, was hurried on in countries distant from the West like Sri Lanka. Western news agencies (e.g. Reuter) and TV (e.g. CNN) would outmuscle local journalists and TV news presenters. Later, the IMF / World Bank anchored this Limitless “I” by using “reforms” that dismantled or made dormant Central Bank and other controls.

Ranging from Sri Lanka to the US, Limitless “I” was to transform (logically) into Limitless “Obligation” for millions of ordinary households. Behind the allure adapted from advertising industry (“Your Right to Choose”) , it was Milton Friedman’s task to ensure that fat-cat financiers came out winners. He had compiled part of this agenda in 1964, for Barry Goldwater, Las Vegas casino mob asset, to step into the shoes of slain President Kennedy.

After President Reagan entered the White House with Milton Friedman gaining the position at last in 1976 as economics advisor to counter Kennedy’s advisor J K Galbraith. Private financiers got their free lunches; you and me – Limitless Obligations. Next, the Anglo-American banks – that the fat cats controlled – hid away the private winnings, the banks knowing that they could assuredly ask the taxpayer for missing capital.

Now – over to astronaut

Astronaut Leonov was on the list of five people overseas whom Arthur C Clarke named when Sri Lanka decided to celebrate Clarke’s 90th birthday. An unknown to the Nobel committee, Clarke created the concepts of the earth-orbiting artificial satellite and the internet that help the world everyday.

Sri Lanka’s Foreign Ministry had selected me, your narrator, to serve as Astronaut Leonov’s translator. The three days that I served helped me benefit from the experience of the person who now heads Russia’s Space Academy. Our relation-ship chanced to lead him to confide much, speaking openly with me. When I was seeing him off finally at the airport he left me with the words, “I must now leave or else our conversation will never end.”

Leonov turned out to be a fancier of spicy food. The hotel with verandah looking out on the ocean also has lobster and crab in abundance.

One morning I put this question to him, “What is the most important quality in a man?”

Leonov thought briefly and said, “The ability to fight with oneself.”

I understood him. Suppressing the self has been taught by sages including those of the subcontinent where Leonov was speaking.

Let me introduce counterpoint.

World should revolve around me!

I was seated on the self-same sea-front verandah with a second Clarke guest. This was a PhD scientist working for NASA. I asked him too what the most important quality in a man was.

The scientist replied, “Self-respect. “ He meant well but this ethic was undone towards “Obsession with oneself” for the “Me Generation” of the 1970s.

“Self-respect” must be heard in the context of the outlook of the era that extends from Reagan’s comrade-at-arm’s Margaret Thatcher too. She had announced, “There’s no such thing as society – there are only individuals and families. “

A popular song declares with no apparent sarcasm, “I believe that the world should revolve around me!” Did swindlers like Bernard Madoff need more prompting?

Earlier, SONY had got no further than use BetaMax and Walkman for names when launching new products. The later commercial pandering to self-adulation evoked MyYahoo, WindowsMe, iMac, iPod and Iphone. A UK jewelry store calls itself “Me Me Me.” With everyone drifted into doing his own thing I must get suspicious of my neighbour’s agenda. This follows naturally when my neighbour claims fame and gives everyone else the blame for ills in the street. I GETTA DA FAME – U GETTA DA BLAME.

Our possibility to share useful information breaks down. To overcome dullness of mind I turn to TV. There a machine-wash recycles my mind.

An emptying loneliness? Videos supply me with air-brushed godlings with whom to mingle Ego.

New “Cold War”

Neighbourhood chat? My Iphone takes me up, up and away to MySpace on the internet where I can overcome the loneliness of life in neighbourhood and office where a post-US-USSR Arms Race dividend has arrived. The dividend arrived in the form of a new “Cold War” of Each-against-the-Other.

Regarding the war of Each-against-the-Other, it was proposed by pamphleteer Thomas Hobbes. He suggested that a population could be managed easiest by the sovereign if society was atomised to the individual.

Hobbes method was found dangerous and was rejected by British statesmen in the 17th Century. These statesmen were correct; its introduction in the 20th Century has triggered the atomisation of society. In the UK, consequently, innovation has tapered off and the country has grown an external debt that is larger per citizen than US debt.

Some astute researchers have managed to study aspects of the issue. Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell put their research into a book entitled, “Me! Me! Me! American’s Narcissism Epidemic”. A brief excerpt follows below.

People strive to create a “personal brand” (also called “self-branding”), packaging themselves like a product to be sold. ads for financial services proclaim that retirement helps you return to childhood and pursue your dreams. High school students pummel classmates and then seek attention for their violence by posting YouTube videos of the beatings.

Although these seem like a random collection of current trends, all are rooted in a single underlying shift in American psychology: the relentless rise of narcissism in our culture. Not only are there more narcissists than ever, but non-narcissistic people are seduced by the increasing emphasis on material wealth, physical appearance, celebrity worship, and attention seeking. Standards have shifted, sucking otherwise humble people into the vortex of granite countertops, tricked-out MySpace pages, and plastic surgery. A popular dance track repeats the words “money, success, fame, glamour” over and over, declaring that all other values have “either been discredited or destroyed.”

The United States is currently suffering from an epidemic of narcissism… In data from 37,000 college students, narcissistic personality traits rose just as fast as obesity from the 1980s to the present, with the shift especially pronounced for women.

The rise in narcissism is accelerating, with scores rising faster in the 2000s than in previous decades. By 2006, 1 out of 4 college students agreed with the majority of the items on a standard measure of narcissistic traits.

Mere cunning

“celebrity narcissism: A bad reflection for kids” is a report filed in USA today newspaper by Sharon Jayson.

She interviews behavior expert and physician Drew Pinsky and S. Mark Young, a social scientist, on their book “The Mirror Effect: How Celebrity Narcissism Is Seducing America.”

She quotes: “It may be especially dangerous for young people, who view celebrities as role models.”

Q: Let’s begin with the title. What do you mean by the “mirror effect,” and why do you say it’s a problem?

A: I’ve been working with celebrities many, many years. I’ve treated many for chemical dependency and the like. They have profound childhood trauma. It’s not something to do with their job or the life they lead. They just happen to be people driven to seek celebrity as a way to make themselves feel better… We’re taking someone who needs to be a god and making them a god.

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Now to move onwards from the US observations, the godling effect comes as corollary to Limitless Choice. To have bitten into this Apple makes the victim try to say “No” to obligation. In the family, children subject to programming by TV often say “No” to guidance by an elder (Madonna’s handlers supplied the video “Daddy Don’t Preach!) Besides the office, this bequeaths aggression, cold war and emptiness to the home too.

A morning experience.

I was at a state-owned bank that serves the public in Sri Lanka.

I was speaking with a bank worker with around 20 years of experience.

I asked him of two tall, slim women bank clerks, one a Hindu wearing a sari and the other wearing a trouser suit and Muslim’s head-scarf, “Which of the two women is smarter?”

He said, “There’s not much difference. You see, young people rely on mere cunning and won’t be responsible.”

I had to call at the Post Office. This also being a government institution, I decided to query the grey-haired postmaster. His response was instantaneous, “The young are irresponsible.”

What a sea change between the two generations!

Reflections of old amity

Later, on the midnight of Xmas eve 2009, I chanced to hear a televised transmission of mass from a Catholic cathedral in north Colombo.

A teenager recited a prayer in Tamil and followed up to perfection in Sinhala. A short Sinhala sermon was then delivered by a senior priest and this was followed by a sermon in Tamil because the neighbourhood has a large Tamil population. Yet, prayer and response soon arose in Sinhala. Then came singing in Tamil. Now this is the nation that schemers tripped into warfare in 1983, five years after the use of Limitless Choice as a principle for the nation.

Looking at the world, the principle of Limitless Choice led US foreign trade into a huge dependence on imports. To foot the bill for financing these imports, the US chose to depend on China’s and other savings arriving in the US for purchase of Treasury bonds and commercial paper. With the US in recession, the transfers of these funds are now being switched elsewhere.

China is turning its foreign currency earnings towards improving infrastructural access for China’s economy. That includes the development of a port complex in southern Sri Lanka and pipelines overland for oil and natural gas from Central Asia to China. today the world waits on China that retained the tradition of keeping one’s Ego under control, the principle that astronaut Leonov mentioned.

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An English friend asked me some days ago, “What do we do?”

In benumbing times we must hold on in some sort of a fortress.

I responded, “Old wine, old shoes and old friends.”

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Lee jeans and Levi Strauss jeans in 1950s

Girls’ jeans looks from the 1950s were casual, stay-at-home wear in the earlier part of the decade, which meant for working around the house and outside while doing chores. It was not until the mid-50s that jeans started making more of a fashion statement and wearing jeans became popular from a social and fashion point of view. Then let us review the history of Lee jeans in its 50s. In every defferent period, Lee represents for different meanings. So its jeans were in a variety of styles according to the eras.

In the mid-1950s, jeans symbolized youth and rebellion. Elvis Presley wore dark denim jeans in his movie “jail House Rock” and James Dean wore his jeans folded twice at the ankles in the 1955 film “Rebel Without a Cause.” For girls in the mid-1950s, jeans were a dark blue denim worn with bobby socks while the cuffs on jeans were rolled up — just like James Dean’s. In the 1950s, the “Mickey Mouse Club” was a popular television show that had a miniseries within the show called “Spin and Marty.” Spin and Marty hung out at a dude ranch and girls visiting the dude ranch wore dark blue jeans with very little flair around the ankles. While jeans worn by girls on the fictional 1950s dude ranch were not rolled up at the ankle, shirts were always tucked into the top of the waist of the jeans.

High-waisted jeans worn in the 1950s showed off shapely figures with their hidden side-zippers and flat fronts. Some high-waisted jeans were capri-length, while those that were ankle-length were usually rolled up to form a cuffed hem. Levi’s and Lee brand jeans were popular back in the 1950s. It was not until the 1960s that jeans were made “preshrunk,” which means that girls who purchased jeans in the 1950s bought jeans that were very dark blue from the denim dye and were stiff as a board. Multiple washings were required to soften the jeans, which could last for many years, if not decades.

In the 1956 movie “Giant,” James Dean wore a pair of worn and unevenly faded 101Z Lee jeans. Levi Strauss jeans were made with a button fly until 1954, when the popular 501 style was made with a zipper, thus the 501Z was created. Levi Strauss officially stopped referring to its denim pants as “overalls” when they changed their advertising copy to call them “jeans” in 1960. The word “overalls” is replaced by the word “jeans” in advertising and on packaging. We had made other products in the past which we called “jeans”, but our top of the line “overalls” – 501 jeans – did not get this name until teenagers began calling the product “jeans” in the 1950s. No one really knows why the word became associated with the men’s overalls, but teenagers adopted the phrase and it became the term used by all manufacturers.

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Denim jeans, Their Progress Through fashion; Still Making history

Denim jeans and attire have been associated with heavy industry to high fashion and become one of the most versatile and enduring clothing styles in fashion history. Hollywood stars like Katherine Hepburn aided denim’s progress through fashion in the 70’s. And now Savile Row tailors champion its continuing success, as they cut denim suits for some of the most famous names in the world. But what of its origins, Denim and Jeans have traveled the world.

Captured in denim the Americans invented, commercialized, stylized, or popularised, in a word, Levis, American Wild West culture. But the fabric was adopted from another continent by early Americans who created functional hard wearing work gear. At the same time they introduced a style without the aid of catwalks and drop dead handsome models.

Mr. Jacob Davis a tailor from Reno Nevada decided to put copper rivets on the corners of his denim trouser pockets to prevent them from ripping. Unable to cover the cost of patenting the idea he sought help from prosperous clothing distributor Mr. Levi Strauss. Mr. Strauss added his own style by putting the garment label on the outside rather than on the inside. Thus a new style was born.

Denim (derived from De-Nimes in France) had already been styled into bell bottom trousers and worn by Italian sailors from Genoa and given the name Geans (Jeans). These trousers had very practical applications. If a sailor went overboard he could easily slip off his trousers without his feet getting caught and thus stand a better chance of staying afloat.

The style has gone from De-Nimes, to Denim, from Genoa to Jeans, from France to America and traveled the world. Style knows no cultural or geographic boundaries. Experience the history.

Now here are a couple of style tips. With this in mind you could chose a denim shirt by King Gee (Australia), floral designer silk tie by Timothy Everest (Savile Row London), a pair of grey flannel trousers by Jaeger (England), for the feet, a pair of blue and white Converse All Stars (America), dark lightweight Harris Tweed jacket (England) and a leather belt by RM Williams (Australia) this is the gear you need for working at the coalface, functionality rules the way. It’s referred to as the lean-clean style, it’s casual by framework, loose and comfortable, but formalised enough with the introduction of neckwear. So you can get into action, throw off the jacket, roll the sleeves up, loosen the tie and get it done.

Once last thing, why not try a pair of Swarovski Crystal silver designer cufflinks, just to reflect your mood and to complement your tie.

Did you know?

Robert Redford stars in the definitive film of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald was a dedicated customer of Jermyn Street bespoke shirt maker Turnbull & Asser. The shirts that reduce The Great Gatsby’s socialite heroine Daisy (Mia Farrow) to tears with their beauty in the film all bear the Turnbull & Asser bespoke label.

1969 Nutters of Savile Row opens on Valentine’s Day and unleashes the Tommy Nutter/Edward Sexton style on swinging London. Backed by Cilla Black and The Beatles’ record company Apple‘s executive Peter Brown, Nutters of Savile Row dresses the entire social spectrum from the Duke of Bedford and Lord Montagu to Mick and Bianca Jagger and The Beatles. Nutters is the first shop on Savile Row to pioneer ‘open windows’ and wild displays executed by Simon Doonan.

Maverick screen actress Katherine Hepburn, whose long-term lover Spencer Tracey was a customer of Huntsman, takes the extraordinary step of ordering bespoke denim jeans from her late lover’s Savile Row tailor. Hepburn’s commission foreshadows bespoke denim collections launched in 2006 by Timothy Everest and Evisu.

It’s all about style, just ask Vivienne Westwood

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