This week's post about the Western World's greatest achievement.
The Free Woman.
This is Frescia Belmar. Chilean, bassist, lives in Los Angeles. Known for her own sound, for being able to improvise a solo out of nothing, and for filling a room when she stands in it.
Here she plays, utterly absurd, wild, free and gorgeous, to a song most of us know.
Notice one thing about it.
It still cannot be experienced where Islam sets the order.
Not just the hair. But the fact that she steps forward, shares what she can do with the whole world, and plays music that in that order is judged unlawful.
Both the sound and the expression.
The human urge to create and to show it does not exist in the same way there. Not because it is not born in Man. But because it is locked in.
And the more that way of thinking about the human being, society and order spreads in a society - the more pressed everything becomes. She becomes smaller. The room becomes smaller. In the end there is only the guy with the glasses left, and he is not allowed to say anything either.
That holds in Iran. It holds in Afghanistan. And it holds in Palestine, where the bogeyman Hamas has sat down on top of her.
And it is spreading in the circles here at home that worship that order. March under its banners. Amplify its signal.
You are allowed to do that here.
Still. Anyways.
But that does not make it any less bizarre to do.
Think about it.
It is the full line of artists from -
Schubert, Chopin, Clara Schumann, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák, Grieg, Puccini, Mahler, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin - and beside them Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya, Turner, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh, Munch, Klimt, Picasso, Matisse, Kandinsky, Frida Kahlo, Dalí, Hopper - and so on up through the century most of us were born in - Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Edith Piaf, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Kate Bush, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, Madonna, U2 - and here at home Carl Nielsen, Hammershøi, Anna Ancher and Krøyer, Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen, John Mogensen, Gasolin and Kim Larsen, Shu-bi-dua, Anne Linnet, Lis Sørensen, Sanne Salomonsen, tv-2, Thomas Helmig - and everyone in between - all the way up to Michael Jackson, who wrote the song she is jamming to.
Talents the world would never have seen if the order here had been a different one!
Ending with all the rest of us mortals who *are nobody* - and certainly not a girl from Chile with a bass.
NONE of them.
NONE of us.
ZERO.
So.
Would it have been better if we had done without what they created and left behind for the rest of us?
And are we, going forward, to arrange ourselves according to an idea - besides that business about homosexuals having to be 'gone' that you have been so preoccupied with these last couple of weeks - that means we will be cheated out of this going forward?
Or should we push back a little, and say -
"You know what... ehmm.. we actually - despite all our own faults - liked it better the way it was here. And that is how we would like to keep it. So if you would kindly just step aside..."
If we are going to -
Then it is now!
NOW.
❤️🔥🪽
Happy Wednesday, friends ☀️
Did you catch it?
