#Ferdinand 2017 Human AU

[wolfasketch]

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Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show #373

Cobwebs And Strange Radio Show  Mondays 12 noon EST , 5pm BST , 9am PDT COBWEBS AND STRANGE #375 Adam & The Ants - Physical (You’re So) (B-Side Babies, 1994) David Bowie - Cracked Actor (Aladdin Sane, 1973) Chime School - Say Hello (The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel, 2024)* chimeschool.bandcamp.com Primal Scream - Silent Spring (Sonic Flower Groove, 1987) Mercury Rev - There’s Always Been A Bird In Me (Born Horses, 2024)* Pink Floyd - Flaming (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, 1967) David Gilmour - Yes, I Have Ghosts (Luck And Strange, 2024)* The Wombles - Womble Of The Universe (Keep On Wombling, 1974) The Monkees - Door Into Summer (Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., 1967) Olivia Newton-John - Please Mr Please (Have You Never Been Mellow, 1975) The Luxembourg Signal - We Go On (The Luxembourg Signal, 2014)* theluxembourgsignal.bandcamp.com Rosalie Cunningham - Return Of The Ellington (To Shoot Another Day, 2024)* rosaliecunningham.bandcamp.com Focus - Hocus Pocus (Focus II / Moving Waves, 1971) Jórge Negrete - México Lindo y Querido (Fiesta Mexicana, 1959) Pepe Aguilar - 100% Mexicano (100% Mexicano, 2007) Maria de Lourdes - Canción Mexicana (La Canción Mexicana, Vol. 1, 2009) Luis Miguel - El Viajero (Mexico en la Piel, 2004) The Linda Lindas - No Obligation (No Obligation, 2024)* thelindalindas.bandcamp.com The Fall - City Hobgoblins (Singles 1978 - 2016, 2017) Franz Ferdinand - Audacious (The Human Fear, 2025)* Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! (They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!, 1966) Beauty In Chaos - Made Of Rain (Dancing With Angels, 2024)* beautyinchaos.bandcamp.com The Awakening - Fault (Anthology XV, 2015) The Cords - Bo’s New Haircut (single, 2024)* thecordsband.bandcamp.com The Pooh Sticks - Alan McGee (John Peel Session 19/04/88) (Unreleased) The Courettes - Keep Dancing (The Soul Of The Fabulous Courettes, 2024)* Strawberry Switchblade - Dance (David Jensen Session 07/10/82) (Unreleased) The Very Things - I Said Yeah (Mr. Arc-Eye (under a cellophane sky), 2024)* theverythings.bandcamp.com The Veras - Nothing Comes For Free (Get It While You Can, 2024)* spinoutnuggets.bandcamp.com The Woggles - Time Has Come (Time Has Come, 2024)* thewoggles.bandcamp.com Vigilance State - Llorona (single, 2024)* vigilancestate.bandcamp.com Red Velvet - Cosmic (Cosmic EP, 2024)* Sabrina Carpenter - Bed Chem (Short n’ Sweet, 2024)* JET - Hurry Hurry (single, 2024)* Ultra Orange - Au contraire (Palindrome Fantôme, 2024)* Snowgoose - Better Listen (Descendant, 2024)* badabingrecords.bandcamp.com The Hummingbirds (USA) - April Skies (The Tribute To The Jesus And Mary Chain Countryfied Compilation, 2017) altcountryfiedtributetojamc.bandcamp.com The Open Door - Toy Balloon (The Direct Records Story, Vol. 1, 2024)* No thee no ess -  Laid back and wondering (Distant Country, 2024)* Rockers Galore - Celebration Life (Vamos A La Playa, 2024)* rockersgalore.bandcamp.com Santana - Jingo (Santana, 1969) Thee Sacred Souls - Waiting On The Right Time (Got A Story To Tell, 2024)* theesacredsouls.bandcamp.com Millie Jackson - (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right (Caught Up, 1974) Edwin Astley - Theme From Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased): Original Soundtrack, 2013) MAZE - Joy & Pain (Joy & Pain, 1980) Tommy Cash - Six White Horses (Six White Horses, 1970) John Howard - A Day Laye (Songs For Mr. Feld EP, 2024)* Read the full article

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Send Me On My Way

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by BluD3vil_Fire2000

After saving a human toddler from a doomed fate, an unlikely group of friends—consisting of Migo, a no-nonsense, lone Yeti; Rodney, an inventor with a heart of gold; Alex, a Lieutenant of an enemy gang; and Blue, an exiled Princess with a unique power—band together to return the child to her family. In order to reunite the baby with her tribe, the four will have to take on many dangers along the journey while having to work together as a herd.

Words: 7501, Chapters: 5/?, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of Ice Age/Multifandom AU

Fandoms: Original Work, Ice Age (Movies), Disney - All Media Types, Smallfoot (2018), Robots (2005), Madagascar (Movies), Wreck-It Ralph (Movies), Book of Life (2014), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Cartoon 2018), Wild Kratts, Voltron: Legendary Defender, Van Helsing (2004), Guardians of the Galaxy (Movies), The Road to El Dorado (2000), Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), The Prince of Egypt (1998), How to Train Your Dragon (Movies), Shrek (Movies), Monsters vs Aliens (2009), Shark Tale (2004), Antz (1998), Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit, Over the Hedge (2006), Flushed Away (2006), Bee Movie (2007), Kung Fu Panda (Movies), Megamind (2010), Rise of the Guardians (2012), The Croods (Movies), Turbo (2013), Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014), Home (2015), Trolls (Movies 2016 2020), Abominable (2019), Horton Hears a Who! - Dr. Seuss, Rio (Movies - Saldanha), Epic (2013), Ferdinand (2017), Spies In Disguise (2019), FernGully (Movies), Anastasia (1997), Cloverfield (2008), 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016), The Cloverfield Paradox (2018), Indiana Jones Series, Open Season (Movies), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (Movies), Hotel Transylvania (Movies), Quest for Camelot (1998), Cats Don't Dance (1997), Osmosis Jones (2001), Iron Giant (1999), The LEGO Movie (2014), Storks (2016), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Fantasia 2000 (1999), Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), Cinderella (2015), Alice in Wonderland (1951), Peter Pan (2003), Lady and the Tramp (1955), Sleeping Beauty (1959), 101 Dalmatians (1961), The Sword in the Stone (1963), The Jungle Book - All Media Types, Robin Hood (1973), The Rescuers (Movies), The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Oliver & Company (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (1992), Aladdin (2019), The Lion King (1994), The Lion King (2019), Pocahontas (Disney 1995), Toy Story (Movies), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Hercules (1997), Mulan (1998), Mulan (2020), A Bug's Life (1998), Tarzan (1999), Dinosaur (2000), Emperor's New Groove (2000), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001), Monsters Inc. (Movies), Lilo & Stitch (2002), Treasure Planet (2002), Finding Nemo (Movies), Brother Bear (2003), Home on the Range (2004), Incredibles (Pixar Movies), Chicken Little (2005), The Wild (2006), Cars (Pixar Movies), Meet the Robinsons (2007), Ratatouille (2007), Enchanted (2007), WALL-E (2008), Up (2009), The Princess and the Frog (2009), Tangled (2010), Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure (Cartoon), Gnomeo and Juliet (2011), Brave (2012), Frozen (Disney Movies), Big Hero 6 (2014), Inside Out (2015), The Good Dinosaur (2015), Zootopia (2016), Moana (2016), Coco (2017), Onward (2020), Raya and the Last Dragon (2021), Balto (Movies), Despicable Me (Movies), Minions (2015), Missing Link (2019), Coraline (2009), Kubo and the Two Strings (2016), The Boxtrolls (2014), ParaNorman (2012), Rock-a-Doodle (1991), The Secret of NIMH (1982), Cool World (1992), The Meg (2018), Rampage (2018), Aquaman (2018), Geostorm (2017), Brightburn (2019), Godzilla (2014), Godzilla: King of The Monsters (2019), Godzilla (1998), Godzilla: The Series, Sonic the Hedgehog - All Media Types, Sonic Boom (Cartoon), Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types, Jurassic World Trilogy (Movies), Jurassic Park Original Trilogy (Movies), King Kong (2005), Kong: Skull Island (2017), Alien Series, Spiders (2013), Venom (Movie 2018), Ratchet & Clank, Crash Bandicoot (Video Games), Spyro the Dragon (Video Games), Rayman (Video Games), Gex (Video Games), Klonoa (Games), Croc (Video Games), PaRappa the Rapper, Oddworld, MediEvil (Video Games)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, Gen, M/M, Multi

Additional Tags: Ice Age AU, everyone's gonna be in it, I just felt like it's too much, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe - Canon, Self-Insert, My OCs are in there as well, this is the first time I've done an AU like this, Inspired by Heroboy005 from fanfiction.net, if you see paragraphs that are familiar to the stories, Blood and Violence, Aftermath of Violence, Explicit Language, It does have some, Fluff and Humor, Family Fluff, Fluff and Hurt/Comfort, That's all I can say

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[strangears]

La fin des Daft Punk : leur dernière arnaque.

          Je ne sais pas si vous êtes au courant mais les Daft Punk se sont séparés en fait. Quoi ? Vous n'avez pas vu défiler dans vos actualités les innombrables articles nécrologiques et rétrospectives sur le sujet ? Dont une bonne moitié venant des Inrocks ? Si, ils ont mis fin à leur carrière avec une vidéo « Epilogue » guère plus inspirée que leurs fans Youtubeurs lambdas. Car, comme me l'a fait remarquer un ami ; vous tapez le titre de - quasi - n'importe quel morceau de Random Access Memories sur Youtube, vous le retrouverez mixé avec des images du film Electroma. Pour « Touch », il faut remercier Pedro Americo qui s'était occupé du mashup en 2013 ; tu t'es fait plagié amigo, mais bon si t'es fan des Daft, t’as l’habitude !

     Oula, attendez ! Je ne vais pas rentrer dans le débat “Daft Punk ; Sample ou Plagiat”, je pense que le problème a été réglé depuis belle lurette ! Et si vous suivez ce blog depuis tout aussi longtemps, vous savez que mon point de vue sur la question est biaisée, en tant que fan de la seconde heure (Discovery) de ce duo qui m’a ouvert à la musique et à l’imaginaire en début d’adolescence (à lire, ma CHRONIQUE NOSTALGIQUE sur le sujet, aussi mal écrite que celle actuellement sous vos yeux...).      Par la suite, j'attendais chaque album comme un clebs attend son maître, en tournant en rond candidement sur les forums où fuitaient les “fake”. Et malgré qu'ils semblaient à chaque fois me dire « tu peux encore attendre longtemps », à chaque véritable sortie, je n'étais -quasi- jamais déçu (je reviendrai peut-être sur chacune de ces sorties... tu veux ? Tu veux pas ? Tu t'en branles?) Et là, j'ai attendu, attendu et rien n'est jamais venu, tu connais la chanson, si ce n'est cette vidéo que j'ai d'abord trouvé génial, avant de lâcher quelques larmes comme la groupie lambda, tomber dans le déni puis la colère.      1993-2021, vous vous foutez de ma gueule les Daft ? Depuis la sortie en 2013 de votre RAM, j'attends. Comme je l’ai rappelé sur chaque post FB mettant en avant ces dates, depuis l' « Overnight » de Parcels sorti en 2017, vous n'avez rien produit ! A moins qu'une surprise ne sorte cette année - j'en doute fort au vu de la flemme baillant derrière cette Epilogue - votre épitaphe à tort. A moins que que vous ne considériez votre boutique de goodies aux prix enflammés sur daftpunk.com et les milliers d'hommage à venir comme votre dernière œuvre ; énième appropriation, dernière arnaque !? Je suis un peu dur mais peux me le permettre, car je l'ai suivi votre carrière ! Je l'ai acheté le jour de sa sortie votre Best-Of et qu'y avait il marqué sur sa pochette ?

     Exact, vous savez lire, « Musique Vol. 1 ». Ce qui laissait présager forcément un Vol. 2, me trompe-je ? En tout cas, ce titre m'excitait à l'époque ; cela voulait dire qu'ils allaient produire un tas de nouvelles musiques ! Youpi ! Le clebs, il veut son nonos, attrape ! Aujourd'hui ça fait pschitt, shit ! Même si un second volume sortait, il serait basé sur quoi ? Un live, une BO et votre dernier album ; des œuvres que j'apprécie, certes, mais pas au point de trouver l'ensemble au niveau de ce qu'on pouvait trouver dans le Vol. 1 (que je vous conseille). Le pire, c'est que vous avez voulu jouer aux robots ! Comment des machines, censés être implacables, peuvent laisser derrière elles une œuvre inachevée ? Human After All vous allez me dire, mais bon, cette excuse va cinq minutes, on l’utilisait déjà pour l’album du même nom  !      Si l’œuvre est inachevée, elle est également imparfaite, l'occasion de revenir sur d'autres fois où j'ai été déçu. Écoutez « Take Me Out » de Franz Ferdinand, un grand tube Rock des années 2000, incontournable, si tu ne connais, qu'attends-tu ? Écoutez maintenant le remix des Daft Punk. Du foutage de gueule. Le même morceau avec du bruit derrière, qui monte en tension... Et attends voir, je l'ai déjà entendu ce son ! Ce n'est pas les mêmes montées qu'ils utilisent sur leur relecture d' « Aerodynamic », « Aerodynamite » ? Oui, oui, c'est bien le même ! Et attends voir, ce n'est pas aussi le bruit que j'ai pu entendre à la fin leur dernier morceau « Contact » ? Si, même si ici c’est plutôt bien géré. Et je crois en oublier un autre, où ils usent de la même astuce, dites-le moi si vous l'avez !

     C’est facile, en tant que fan, je connais chaque sombre recoin, j'aurais pu continuer en écrivant, je ne sais pas, sur leur « Robot Rock (Maximum Overdrive) » par exemple ou ce même Electroma que l’on ADOoOoOre en vitesse accélérée. Mais je vais m'arrêter là. Si les Daft Punk ont été une source d'inspiration dans ma vie, il est aussi bon parfois de regarder l’œuvre, dans son ensemble, avec un semblant d'objectivité pour se dire “Hey, les fans ! Hey les médias... vous en faîtes pas un trop là à suçoter comme ça ? Vous l’avez écouté le Remix de “Take Me Out” ?” Ce billet pour contrebalancer. En attendant leurs futures œuvres solos, évidemment !

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Les 5 meilleures chansons anti-Trump

Si l’arrivée au pouvoir de Trump laisse présager de (très) mauvais jours pour la liberté, la démocratie et la planète entière, elle a au moins le mérite de pousser les artistes à résister en chanson et ainsi espérer des jours meilleurs. A la veille de l’investiture de Donald Trump, ce sont deux des groupes les plus attendus de 2017, Gorillaz et Arcade Fire, qui sont revenus avec des chansons anti-Trump. Et ce sont les derniers d’une longue liste... Sélection des meilleures chansons inspirées par l’élection de cet horrible personnage.

C’est dans ces moments historiques que la musique peut revêtir un pouvoir encore plus fort. Elle dépasse l’émotion et le plaisir de l’écoute pour devenir un moyen de contestation, de protestation et de mise en garde. Aussi vieilles que la musique, les protest songs ont toujours été là, la chanson a toujours été un moyen d’expression privilégiée. Ainsi le negro spiritual était un type de chants que les esclaves reprenaient en travaillant pour exprimer leur désarroi et leur impuissance. Dans les années 1940, Woody Guthrie enregistrait l’une des chansons folk les plus populaires, This Land is Not Your Land. Plus tard, dans les années 1970, Neil Young, Bob Dylan ou John Lennon utilisaient leurs chansons pour dénoncer la guerre du Vietnam. Chaque décennie a amené son lot de contestation et de groupes particulièrement engagés : le hip-hop de Public Enemy et Rage Against the Machine dans les années 1990, les chansons anti-Bush et anti-guerre des années 2000 avec Green Day, Bright Eyes ou Arcade Fire et plus récemment Kendrick Lamar ou Frank Ocean dénonçant les violences policières contre les noirs aux Etats-Unis. Face à cette nouvelle épreuve qu’est l’élection de Donald Trump, les artistes prennent la parole pour résister et dénoncer.

Gorillaz (feat. Benjamin Clementine) - Hallelujah Money

Pour son retour après plus de 6 ans d’absence, Gorillaz ont dévoilé, la veille de l’inauguration de Trump le 20 janvier 2017, une nouvelle chanson extraite de leur album à venir. Sur Hallelujah Money, enregistrée avec Benjamin Clementine, l'atmosphère est pesante et le beat lourd. Benjamin Clementine ironise sur le rêve américain de Donald Trump alors que Damon Albarn s’interroge “How will we dream? How will we love?” mais affirme “We are still humans”. La vidéo met en scène Benjamin Clementine dans la Trump Tower accompagné de collages d’images du Ku Klux Klan, de danseurs africains ou de geishas.

Arcade Fire (feat. Mavis Staples) - I Give You Power

Autre retour d’un groupe star pour dénoncer le nouveau président américain ! Arcade Fire, dont le nouvel album est prévu dans l’année, ont eux aussi sorti une nouvelle chanson le jour de l’investiture de Donald Trump. La chanson sera diffusée au profit de l’American Civil Liberties Union qui se bat pour protéger les droits et libertés des citoyens américains. Sur un beat aussi lourd que celui de Gorillaz, le groupe, accompagné de Mavis Staples, met en garde les politiques : “I give you power, I can take it away”.

Franz Ferdinand - Demagogue

Sorti dans le cadre de la compilation 30 Days, 30 Songs qui a réuni les plus grands groupes du rock indépendant avant l’élection de Donald Trump, Franz Ferdinand sont revenus eux aussi avec une chanson anti-Trump après quelques années d’absence. Sans le guitariste Nick McCarthy parti vers d’autres horizons, la chanson prouve que Franz Ferdinand n’a rien perdu de son talent pour écrire des chansons pop parfaites.

CocoRosie (feat. ANOHNI) - Smoke ‘em Out

Le duo fantaisiste CocoRosie est lui aussi revenu avec une nouvelle chanson anti-Trump et féministe. En duo avec ANOHNI, les sœurs Cassidy décrivent une armée de femmes et d’enfants équipées de couteaux et fourchettes pour accueillir le nouveau résident de la Maison Blanche.

Sun Kil Moon & Jesu - The Greatest Conversation Ever in the History of the Universe

“And Trump is all over the TV / Let’s face it, we asked for this fuck because we’ve been surpassed by technology / We’ve had our heads up our asses, sendin’ selfies ’round the planet / And getting run over by cars while we jerk off to Pokéman, mon / So here’s this motherfucker spouting off, and if you think you took no part / In this place in this world, then you’re fired / ’Cause you’ve not been paying attention, and your apprenticeship has expired”

[bluewillowmom]

Translation to english the article about slavery in Libya.

Actuellement, en Libye, des migrants sont vendus sur des «marchés aux esclaves».

Actually, in Libya, migrants are sold in “slave markets”.

Des milliers d'hommes, femmes et enfants originaires d'Afrique de l'Ouest transitant par la Libye sont vendus sur des « marchés aux esclaves » avant d’être soumis au travail forcé ou à l’exploitation sexuelle (viol, prostitution forcée). Ces personnes sont vendues entre 200 et 500 dollars comme de la marchandise.

Thousands of men, women and children from West Africa travelling through Libya are sold at “slave markets” before being subjected to forced labour or sexual exploitation (rape, forced prostitution).  These people are sold for amounts between $200 and $500 dollars, like merchandise.

Originaires surtout du Nigeria, du Sénégal ou encore de Gambie, les migrants sont capturés alors qu’ils font route vers le nord de la Libye, d’où ils comptent gagner l’Europe en traversant la Méditerranée. Tout au long de ce périple, ils sont la proie de groupes armés et de réseaux de passeurs qui tentent parfois de leur extorquer de l’argent.

Coming mostly from Nigeria, Senegal and Gambia, migrants are captured while they are traveling towards the north of Libya, from where they hope to get into Europe by crossing the Mediterranean.  All along this journey, they are preyed upon by armed groups and smuggling networks who sometimes try to extort money from them.

Ce crime, ce trafic d'êtres humains doit CESSER immédiatement !

This crime, this traffic of human beings must STOP immediately!

S.V.P Signez cette pétition afin de demander au Ministre de l'Europe et des affaires étrangères M. Jean-Yves Le Drian, à l'ONU et l'Union Africaine de prendre immédiatement des mesures concrètes pour mettre fin à ce trafic d'êtres humains.

Please sign this petition asking the Minister of Europe and foreign affairs, Mr. Jean-Yves Le Drian, at the United Nations and the African Union to immediately take concrete measures to end this human trafficing.

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[cabiba]

A rather puzzling situation indeed. Why would society’s most well-to-do generally support higher income taxes, estate taxes, business regulations, Keynesianism, myriad social programs and the diminution of individual liberty? It may seem perplexing that the plutocrats opt for political candidates who are the most hostile towards capitalism. The majority of economic interventions harm the smallest businesses the most. Larger companies can enjoy lobbying power and a large hand in drafting regulations. Large companies also boast greater economies of scale, revenues, reserves, legal advice and political bargaining power enabling them to avoid the full force of business crippling policies which smaller companies are left exposed to. Furthermore, by stifling competition, the potential profit margins to be earned are higher than under a truly free market. The ability to lobby yields an astronomically greater return on investment than bog standard research and development. Barriers to entry are heightened thus reducing the supply of both specialized workers for that industry (which drives up wages) and consumer or lower order goods produced (thus driving up prices).  Progressive income tax stunts capital investment for a huge portion of the lower-middle classes. It keeps those at the top at arm’s length from up and coming middle-class investors as a crucial chunk of their income is sucked away to be ‘invested’ by the State.

George Orwell, an Old Etonian and self-proclaimed socialist, observed that the bulk of bourgeois socialists did not hold their socialist convictions as a means to improve the living conditions of the lower classes, but to do away with their individual liberty and to usher in their personal brand of social order. (For more on this see Hoppe’s “Marxist and Austrian Class Analysis”)  Irony speaks volumes given that the vast majority of original socialist writers were of bourgeois upbringings and not of the proletarian classes!

Education, or indoctrination, plays a redoubtable role in instilling leftist values among the young upper-middle classes. Top universities are often swarming with tenured professors leisurely propagating their revolutionary politics. Many of them become professors as they cannot attain higher wages in the market, thus veer towards academia for a comparatively luxurious life. Consequently, their personal inadequacies in the market are transposed onto their teachings, forming a harmonious marriage with their anti-capitalist politics. Western universities have become notoriously and rabidly intolerant of non-leftist politics on campus. Blinkered students come away with a rigorous indoctrination fraught with fallacies, revisionism, positivism, nihilism and determinism. Upper-middle class students are spoon-fed intellectual tripe, without a sniff of contradictory study, until they are churned out into their insular patrician echo chambers 3-4 years later.

Within leftist circles, variations of atheism dominate religious beliefs. While historically speaking, atheism has contributed much towards intellectual progress, in recent times, it has been more of a burden than a blessing. This is partly because atheism, by and large, has precipitated the extirpation of Western Christian values and failed to offer a concrete replacement. In the sudden absence of a collective belief in a something greater (a God), people have begun to seek guidance in the State – Ferdinand Lasalle, Marx’s intellectual rival at the time, once pronounced “the State is God!” In these turbulent amoral times, many have flocked to the State, praising the various rights they confer upon various sections of society. In other words, many on the left look to be shepherded by the State and faithfully laud the State when it has spoken. State action has substituted morality. Alarmingly, a substantial swathe of society will never question bills passed when their political party is in power and staunchly defend these without interrogating their substance, validity, necessity or effects. To question the State has become akin to questioning God’s beneficence in more culturally conservative societies. Many “educated” individuals, adopt atheism through their education and fading religious tendencies among their demographic. Why believe in God when you can play God? Being so close to reins of power, it benefits society’s creme de la creme to expand State power as it cements their personal social standing.

Commonly, inherited wealth combusts quickly as it is passed down a few generations, due to capital inertia, new competition, and prodigality. The Marxist dictum “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” holds true when it comes to early childhood. Obviously, an infant cannot generate revenue alone. Up until adolescence, the child is wholly dependent upon their parents for shelter, nourishment, and other basic needs. For wealthier families, the need for their scions to enter employment in early adulthood is less than a poorer family. The upper-middle class scion can reach their mid-late twenties without ever needing to secure employment. The relationship a child has with their parents is similar to that of a nonproductive citizen and the State. The State offers abundant resources in exchange for the nonproductive citizen’s unwavering support. Of course, being cradled in such an environment for the first quarter century of one’s life may develop a certain aversion towards work ethic and competition. Previously accumulated family wealth will endow the heir with many goods or services at their fingertips. Notwithstanding social class or erudition, not having to wait for things and having things abundantly available will shift their time preferences upwards. High time preferences and statism intermingle superbly as the easy, impatient answer for any social problem must invoke state intervention for a quick fix.

According to r/K selection theory (crudely condensed as r-selection representing the left and K-selection representing the right, or rabbits as r and wolves as K) humans can exhibit characteristics of both selections. Resource abundance can shift one’s political outlook drastically. For example, rabbits, being r-selected, do not need much parental investment in their children as 1) they reproduce very often and 2) grass, abundantly available, is their primary food source and does not elicit strategy or competition to obtain. Wealthier parents do not necessarily need as much parental investment in their children as they can afford round-the-clock childcare, au pairs or nannies. Money is never an issue in the eyes of the child, therefore, competition becomes a pointless endeavor. Being surrounded by wealth, a perceivable dearth of competition and perhaps less parental investment in them to learn heart-hardening discipline; capitalism appears to be a disorderly, unstable, dog-eat-dog mess rife with inequality and hardship.

Order, stability and equalized income to the toiling public appear to be the desirable and humane ideal. Poverty is an incomprehensible state of affairs and the temptation to partition society into faceless collective groups is irresistible. A cavalier mission to alleviate the world’s suffering via the power of the State then becomes the only noble choice in the eyes of the elitist leftist.

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Things to do in Montréal from June 2 to 8

It’s still officially spring, but Montréal summer festival season kicks off this week with  outdoor music, dancing and F1 parties. Also see the city’s history rendered in light, the  sights of Expo 67, circus and theatre, award-winning classical musicians and more.

375th birthday celebrations

Watch Montréal history come to life on the Saint Lawrence River in spectacular, free multimedia show Montréal Avudo every night in the Old Port. From there you’ll also see the city’s high-tech 375th anniversary light show on the Jacques-Cartier Bridge. The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under conductor Kent Nagano plays a Symphony for Montréal, with visuals by Moment Factory, June 2 at Maison Symphonique. Old Montréal landmark Notre-Dame Basilica, one of the city’s most stunning churches, lights up with beautiful high-tech spectacle Aura, while the surrounding streets illuminate with the historic tableaux projections of Cité Memoire. And La Grand Tournée weekend events, presented by Cirque Éloize, run throughout the summer and in every neighbourhood, from group picnics in the park and green alleyway tours to circus shows and cinema under the stars.

Outdoor fun 

The first First Fridays of the season turns Olympic Park into a giant food truck rally with music and family-friendly things to do on June 2. Ubisoft video game giant hosts L’été Mile End on June 3, with live music, games and a kids zone. Urban green space, outdoor eatery and bar in the heart of downtown Les Jardins Gamelin hosts music performances, dance classes, family activities and more. While downtown, grab a bite from one of Montréal’s great food trucks or pop by the Marché des Éclusiers market in the Old Port for a meal, a drink, local produce and other creations. Drop by Village au Pied du Courrant next to the Jacques Cartier Bridge for music, food and socializing. Join the crowds of cyclists in the streets during the Go Bike Montréal Festival‘s massive public bike rides Tour de l’Île on June 4 and Tour la Nuit on the night of June 2. The F1 Grand Prix festivities begin June 8 at the free Crescent Street Grand Prix Festival and Peel Formula downtown, featuring DJs, fashion shows, driver appearances and more. Take a walk up traffic-free Saint-Laurent Boulevard during Mural Fest, June 8-18, when you can watch artists paint new works on buildings’ walls. Discover the great tunes of French-language music festival Les Francofolies, opening June 8 with Les Trois Accords, Dumas, Pierre Kwenders and Lydia Képinski in a free outdoor concert in Place des Festivals. Find more outdoor activities in our guide to free things to do this Spring in Montréal.

Expo 67 returns

Montréal celebrates the 50th anniversary of Expo 67 with entertaining and history-rich exhibitions: see colourful outfits and products created by Québec designers at the McCord Museum’s Fashioning Expo 67; photographs tell the tale in The Sixties in Montréal: Archives de Montréal at City Hall; marvel at the technological innovations of EXPO 67: A World of Dreams at the Stewart Museum and Écho 67 at the nearby Buckminster Fuller designed Biosphère; baby boomer youth culture is a blast in Explosion 67 – Youth and Their World at the Centre d’histoire de Montréal; it’s all about ’60s artistic expression in the Montréal Museum of Fine Arts’s Révolution: “You say you want a revolution” and the Musée d’art contemporain’s In Search of Expo 67; Arcmtl presents Expo 67: Avant Garde! – forward-looking, boundary-breaking art of the ’60s at the Cinémathèque Québecoise; and Centre de design de l’UQAM honours architect Moshe Safdie’s Habitat 67 in The Shape of Things to Come. Photography exhibition Aime comme Montréal celebrates the city’s diversity in an installation at Place des arts.

On stage

Prepare to be dazzled and delighted at Cirque du Soleil’s VOLTA, the most exciting circus around – see acrobats, dancers, parkour experts, motor bike athletes and many more incredible performers under the big top in the Old Port of Montréal. Expect extraordinary, boundary-pushing performances in dance, theatre and art at the international FTA – Festival TransAmériques, including major Polish director and set designer Krystian Lupa’s Wycinka Holzfällen – Woodcutters, Marie Brassard’s La fureur de ce que je pense, Barcelona company El Conde de Torrefiel’s Possibilities that Disappear Before a Landscape, incredible contemporary dance, parties and more. Les Grands Ballets presents the contemporary dance of Jiří Kylián’s Falling Angels and Evening Songs in a triple bill with Stephan Thoss’s Searching for Home, at Place des Arts to June 3. For more theatre, eclectic performances and parties than you can shake a silly stick at, go to the St-Ambroise Montréal Fringe Festival, including a Fringe Prom on June 2, and and a Mini Fringe afternoon for kids and evening opening concert on June 8 at Fringe Park.

Art and film

Colour and music converge in CHAGALL: COLOUR AND MUSIC at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Hajra Waheed’s The Video Installation Project 1–10 and collections-based Pictures for an Exhibition intrigue at the Musée d’art contemporain and Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza’s Plantas autofotosintéticas has us rethinking how biology, technology and art intersect, at Galerie de l’UQAM. British artist Ed Atkins poses questions on human bodies, digital creation and reality in video exhibition Modern Piano Music at DHC-ART. Pointe-à-Callière archaeology and history museum presents the fascinating Amazonia: The Shaman and the Mind of the Forest. And Parisian Laundry gallery presents intuitive experimental new work by collective BGL. On screen: A full orchestra and choir accompanies Milos Forman’s Oscar-winning film Amadeus at Place des Arts, June 2-3. The Montreal Israeli Film Festival opens with Past Life on June 4 and runs to June 15. Travel through virtual worlds in Felix & Paul Studios Virtual Reality Garden at the Phi Centre. Explore space in new double feature KYMA – Power of Waves and Edge of Darkness at the Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium. Immerse yourself in live music and audiovisual wonders at the SAT’s Satosphere surround-sound dome, featuring Audio Chandelier: Latitude by Dafna Naphtali, Modulations by Chikashi Miyama and Le Loup, Lifting and Myogram by Atau Tanaka and Lillevan.

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Classical music

The Montréal Chamber Music Festival is not only a must for classical music lovers but for jazz fans too – among the concerts, hear The Dover Quartet perform the complete Beethoven String Quartet cycle and play with the Rolston String Quartet, and check out the June 3 TD Jazz Series show with saxophonist Rémi Bolduc. Pianist Alexandre Tharaud and Les Violons du Roy perform the world premiere of an Oscar Strasnoy commission, June 2 at Bourgie Hall. On June 4, hear the sublime sounds of the Orchestre Symphonique de Longueuil’s Concert du Printemps at Place des Arts, the Association des orchestres de jeunes de la Montérégie‘s year-end concert featuring Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 at the Maison Symphonique, and gala concert concert of the 2017 Prix d’Europe winners and invited guest pianist Xiaoyu Liu at Bourgie Hall. On June 6, the McGill Chamber Orchestra and choirs perform Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana and an oratorio by composer Larysa Kusmenko at Maison symphonique. And the Chœur classique de Montréal performs works of Bruckner to Rossini on June 6 at Maison symphonique.

More live music

Heaviness prevails on Friday as Tool rocks the Bell Centre with openers Once & Future Band, while things are a little more laid back with Timber Timbre and Sin and Swoon at L’Olympia. The eclectic and excellent Suoni per il Popolo festival continues all month – this week open your ears to: an hommage to Pauline Oliveros, Pharmakon and Dorothea Paas on Friday; War of the Elements, Alan Licht and Red Mass on Saturday; Mary Margaret O’Hara on Monday; Peter Brotzmann on Tuesday; 2boys.tv on Wednesday; Princess Nokia on Thursday, and more. Saturday night sees famed Scottish indie-rockers Franz Ferdinand with opener Omni at Metropolis, hip hop producer Blockhead with guests Kognitif, Grandhuit and Famelik at Théâtre Fairmount, pop singer-songwriter LP with Josiah & The Bonnevilles at Théâtre Corona, and dance to the electro beat of Boombox Cartel and Drezo at New City Gas. Spend Sunday afternoon outside at Piknic Electronik, with music from Prins Thomas, Marcellus Pittman and more. Singer-songwriter pop-star BANKS performs at Metropolis with opener Toulouse on Monday, June 5. Intricate guitar work meets rock-noise as GIRLPOOL plays Bar Le Ritz P.D.B. on June 6. On Wednesday, Toronto’s outsider-folk-meets-electronic ANAMAI plays L’Esco with Petra Glynt, and electro producer Habstrakt brings the beats to Newspeak. And Synthwave artist DAS MÖRTAL launches a new album on Thursday at Bar Le Ritz P.D.B.

Up next:Your summer guide to Montréal’s Olympic Park

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Books: March 2017

* marks recommendation

What I’ve read:

Ferdinand von Schirach: Tabu

Ferdinand von Schirach: Verbrechen

Phillip Inman: The Financial Crisis (Guardian Shorts)

* Adam Grant: Originals: How Non-Conformists Change the World - Very good, the summary and suggestions is a great service to the reader 

Christa Wolf: Leibhaftig

* Christa Wolf: Was bleibt - This one hits home and it is harrowing to read (as so many books by Wolf - which is not a bad thing) about dealing with life under the GDR regime. This is personal for/to me, and in our political times, I feel we should go back to Wolf-style books regularly to remind us of history - both on a personal and broader historical basis.

* Elizabeth Strout: My Name is Lucy Barton - I got this book at London St. Pancras station and read the text on the back when two booksellers independently of each other told me in passing that this was a great read. It was indeed a good read - I finished the book whilst still on the train and have the feeling I will have to read it at least one more time to give it its full credit. Strout makes very detailed and understanding observations of human relationships - and whilst I am fairly sure that my relationship to my mother is not at the point between the protagonist and hers, I wonder and look forward to figuring out if I may be able to learn something about the future from this novel. Incidentally, I also read two books about illness and what it does and more importantly where it comes from in one month.

* Juli Zeh: Corpus Delicti - Wiederum ein ganz anderes Buch von Juli Zeh. Corpus Delicti gefällt mir auf mehreren Ebenen: zum einen baut Zeh eine neue Welt auf, die in sich logisch scheint, weil sie aus der unseren hervorgegangen ist (das Buch spielt in einer Zukunft, in der es keine Krankheiten mehr gibt und behandelt die daraus hervorgehende Frage der Freiheit des Einzelnen, den Anspruch eines neuen Systems auf Komplettherrschaft, weil es den Menschen von allem Übel befreit hat usw.), zum anderen spielt der Körper eine große Rolle in dem Buch in dem es um Straftaten geht und Zeh nutzt das, bspw. die Frage danach jemanden ‘kalt zu stellen’ in einer Welt, in der Menschen als Höchststrafe eingefroren werden. 

What I’m reading:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment

Norman Davies: Europe East and West

J. L. Collins: The Simple Path to Wealth

What I’ll read next:

Nick Srnicek, Alex Williams: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

What I’ve bought:

Tim Harford: Messy

Elizabeth Strout: My Name is Lucy Barton

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