SEZONA UBLEHARENJA

Ovih je dana Semir Osmanagic nastavio sezonu ubleharenja po svijetu. Ovacije koje je dobio nakon prezentacije u gradu Marquette (Michigan) mogu se usporediti jedino sa onima koje su propratile dolazak prvih prailirskih brodova na americki kontinent cime je zapocela intenzivna komunikacija i trgovina izmedju ovog kontinenta i visocke doline. Ili onima koje je Hrvoje Zujic pobrao nakon izlaganja o piramidama klima-uredjajima i vibrirajucem brdu na naucnoj radionici u okviru ICBP konferencije (uocavate naravno ovu plejadu strucnjaka pod B. na radionici).

Salu na stranu, primjetit cete opet ono sto je odavno poznato - da Osmanagic ne prezentira rezultate istrazivanja na naucnim konferencijama nego na susretima koji okupljaju alternativce, poklonike kristalne lobanje, New Age sljedbenike, rasljare i slicne strucnjake. Dovoljno je samo pogledati itinerary predstojece turneje u Velikoj Britaniji ili web stranicu jednog od organizatora (Edmund Marriage) i jasno je o kakvim susretima se radi i kakvim istrazivanjima se bavi ovo drustvo.

FUCK: THE HUMAN ODYSSEY

THE STORY OF THE EARTH FROM THE BIG BANG TO THE END OF THE WORLD IN 67 SPLENDIDLY SATIRICAL IMAGES


This is a brave and important book in the history of graphic humour. Hopeless and despairing as it is in this collection, humour is one of the only weapons left that artists have to fight the relentless greed and cruelty of progress. FUCK is a remarkable book which will further comfort the sensibilities of Mankind in the face of the bleak inevitability of Evolution.

Martin Rowson has been a full-time freelance cartoonist since graduating from Cambridge University in 1982. His cartoons have appeared regularly in The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Mirror, The Independent on Sunday, The Scotsman, The Spectator, Tribune, The Morning Star and many other publications. Twice winner of the Cartoon Museum's Political Cartoonist of the Year, he has also produced many books, including a memoir, "Stuff", a novel called "Snatches" and graphic adaptations of TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy".

He was appointed Cartoonist Laureate for London by Ken Livingstone in 2001 (and reappointed by Boris Johnson in 2008, subject to terms and conditions), and is also an honorary associate of The National Secular Society, a trustee of The Cartoon Museum and a former vice-president of the Zoological Society of London.

His latest book tells the story of Earth, from the Big Bang, the emergence of life, the death of the dinosaurs, the dawn of civilization, the invention of the wheel, the Trojan War, the Crucifixion, the Fall of Rome, the Black Death, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, World War One, Nazism, consumerism, the Cold War, 9/11 and beyond to the End of the World, in sixty seven beautiful, savage, splendidly satirical images, all with only one word in the speech bubbles.

IMAGE GALLERY

THE MAN WHO WENT UP A HILL AND CAME DOWN A PYRAMID

A group of Bosnian hills might contain the world’s greatest pyramids—or its greatest pyramid scheme.

“…Pseudo-archaeology seems to be giving way to religion, says Massimo Introvigne, an Italian sociologist who is considered Europe’s leading academic expert on religious minorities. The Bosnian pyramid-worshipping “looks like an embryonic New Age religion,” he says. Introvigne has long studied one of the most famous of the New Age groups, the Federation of Damanhur, which emerged in northern Italy in the late 1970s and has gained considerable wealth and flocks of followers around the world…”
Discover Magazine (November 2008)

Link (Irna, hvala!):
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/nov/22-the-man-who-went-up-a-hill-and-came-down-a-pyramid

UNDER EVERY STONE LURKS A POLITICIAN*

Ovih dana se Semir & Co. mogu vidjeti najcesce u drustvu politicara. Red je, zar ne, uzvratiti posjete onima koji su skakali po visockim brdima obecavajuci pare bh. poreznih obveznika, a koji, kao i nas istrazivac, narodu vec godinama prodaju maglu. Prva posjeta je bila Harisu Silajdzicu, gledajuci ovu fotografiju nisam sigurna jesu li kao dar donijeli baklavu u obliku piramide ne bi li ublazili gorak ukus u ustima koji clanovi stranke “Dobro je za biznis” imaju nakon nedavnih izbora ili se, pak, dive prvim primjercima sa trake iz “Fabrike za proizvodnju nista”. Onda je na red dosla posjeta savjetniku premijera Timuru Numicu koji je na otvaranju piramidiotske konferencije pozdravio ucesnike, mada je, kako pise u ICBP - Programme & Book of Abstracts, tu cast trebao imati sam premijer, Nedzad Brankovic. Pa su onda predstavnici Fondacije posjetili Mirsada Kebu, Spomenku Micic, ko bi mogao biti sljedeci na redu, mozda ministar turizma Herceg ili premijer ZDK Galijasevic. Vec uocavate i uobicajnu retoriku prilikom ovih posjeta - “neophodna dalja istrazivanja”, “institucionalna pomoc organa Bosne i Hercegovine”, “piramide razvojni projekt vazan za BiH”… ne bi li se Fondacija opet ogrebala o drzavni budzet prodavajuci suplju o prosperitetu i blagostanju koje ce donijeti “piramide”. Ova kontinuirana podrska politicara me vise i ne cudi, “piramide” su im bas dobro dosle, narod uljuljkan pricama o mitovima i fiktivnoj proslosti manje ce prozivati i preispitivati njihove poteze, odluke koje donose sa zakasnjenjem od nekoliko godina i vode ovu zemlju jedan korak naprijed, a deset koraka natrag. Po svoj prilici je i sutrasnja posjeta u organizaciji ove koalicije jos jedan pokusaj prodaje magle strancima koji ce ocekivano zavrsiti samo na “hill sightseeing tour”.

*Aristophanes (Thesmophoriazusae, 410 BC)