PARACULTURAL CALENDAR FOR MAY 29

[Mark Kohut]

Regarding physics below. It is not uninteresting to read in the Russell biography how successful his ( and others) popularly-written books in the new ideas were in the 20s. Lotsa people did want to understand the new discoveries and theories. So, many of the elite tried to explain. 

There is this anecdote in the bio. Russell, with some of the earliest and best books about, was asked to review and even to read manuscripts about for publishers. He developed a form rejection which he sent to his publishing friends preemptively which ended by saying " but another book on this subject is not needed". 

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> On May 29, 2015, at 8:33 PM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> POLITICAL INCORRECTNESS ALERT! On this day in 1733, the right of
> Canadians to keep slaves is upheld in a Quebec City legislative
> assembly. 100 years later, in 1833, slavery would be abolished
> throughout Canada. In fact, it is a well kept secret that the only
> Canadian population to ever enthusiastically practice slavery... were
> the natives! TheHaida were particularly vicious enslavers and
> slave-traders, venturing as far south as California on kidnapping
> raids. As for the European side of things, historian Marcel Trudel has
> documented precisely 4,092 recorded slaves throughout Canadian
> history, of which 2,692 were native peoples owned by the French, and
> 1,400 blacks owned by the British, together owned by approximately
> 1,400 masters. There can be no accurate accounting of native
> enslavement of other natives, but it surely totals in the millions,
> over a much longer time span.
> 
> ***
> 
> Happy Birthday to para-political heavy-weight philosopher Oswald
> Spengler, who was born in Germany on this day in1880! Spengler's
> hugely influential book, The Decline of the West, put forth his
> fascinating Civilizations Model, which posits that every epoch goes
> through a cycle of seasons, from Spring to Winter, after which comes
> an ultimate and unavoidable collapse. Cheerful stuff.
> 
> ***
> 
> On this day in 1913, the Paris premiere performance of composer Igor
> Stravinsky and choreographer Vaslav Nijinski's ballet The Rite of
> Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia provokes a riot when detractors and
> supporters of the gloriously asynchronous, poly-rhythmic music and
> primal, violent dancing begin fighting each other in the aisles.
> Despite the ruckus, which spilled out into the street, the 33-minute
> ballet was performed in its entirety. Stravinsky's score remains one
> of the most important and impressive pieces of Modernist music ever
> composed - an "it's all there" key to understanding where serious
> composition was headed in the 20th century - and, as a well-rounded
> human being, you really do owe it to yourself to take the time and
> give this horizon-expanding, mind-blowing, eardrum-pounding creationan
> uninterrupted listen with your complete and undivided attention.
> "Farewell la Belle Epoch, welcome the New Age."
> 
> ***
> 
> In another defining moment of the Modern Age, it was on this day in
> 1919 that scientists Arthur Eddington andAndrew Crommelin conducted
> the first-ever real-world test of Albert Einstein's theory of General
> Relativity. They set up camp on the island of Príncipe, near Africa,
> and prepared to watch a solar eclipse. According to general
> relativity, stars with light rays that passed near the Sun would
> appear to shift due to their light curving through the Sun's
> gravitational field - an effect only noticeable during eclipses, since
> otherwise the Sun's brightness would obscure the affected stars. They
> discovered that Newtonian physics could only account for half the
> shift that they recorded - a shift that was accurately predicted by
> Einstein's theory. All of a sudden, the Universe seemed like a whole
> lot stranger place, indeed... especially to those elite few with minds
> capable of grasping the physics of it all.
> 
> ***
> 
> On this day in 1954, at the Hotel de Bilderberg near Arnhem in the
> Netherlands, the first ever Bilderberg Conference is held. The whole
> ball of wax got rolling when several people, including Polish
> politicians Józef Retingerand Andrew Nielsen, became concerned about
> the growth of anti-Americanism in Western Europe. They proposed an
> international conference at which leaders from European countries and
> the United States could come together and promote a better
> understanding between the cultures of the United States and Western
> Europe and foster cooperation on political, economic, and defense
> issues. That's the official line. For a more accurate take on the
> goals, activities and origins of every conspiracy theorist's favorite
> honest-to-gosh actual global conspiracy, check out SourceWatch's
> excellent Bilderberg dossier. You'll be glad you did. Or not...
> 
> A Picasso of Stravinsky - it doesn't get much more Modern than that!
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