Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Sarcasm on the Symbolism of a Popular Work of Art

And I mean really really really popular! What is this work, you ask? The Obama O!

And yes, it is art, after a fashion. It is filled with subtle symbols that only the aesthetician would care to read.

In the first place, consider the fact that it is a sun over the horizon. At the Constitutional Convention, George Washington sat in a chair with a sun over the horizon on its back. At the end of the convention, Benjamin Franklin said something along the lines of: "Throughout the convention, I wondered if it were a rising sun or a setting sun. I see now that it is a rising sun." Now, however much we might want to, we don't live on Tatooine. Therefore, the sun has to set after it rises before it can rise again. Therefore, the sunset in Obama's O is a setting sun.

Second, consider the fields below. They are red and white. I can think of two sorts of fields that are that way. Obviously, there are those fields that have blood on snow. Less obvious is are the red and white fields of communist China. (Explanation: in the opera Nixon in China, the proletarians sing "When we look up, the fields are white with harvest in the morning light." White for harvest, red for communism.)

Finally, consider the overall shape of the picture. It is round, and at the core of its being lies the shape that is roundest of all: O. Chesterton says that the snake eating itself in the shape of an O is the perfect symbol of pantheistic fatalism.

Therefore, what does the symbol mean? It means that Obama wants to put America into decline by killing people and turning the country into a Communist agricultural powerhouse. The end result? The eventual taking over of the world by pantheistic India.

It's amazing how much you can learn by reading the inner secrets of art. Or can you? Hee Hee!

10 comments:

Ancient Greek Philosopher said...

What?!?! Why is India taking over?
It looks like Obama the Cheshire Cat is here to stay. Mr. Lundhal,
be glad you live in France.

Old Fashioned Liberal said...

India is the taking-over country because the economic structure of China makes it impossible for China to remain long after it takes over the United States.

Ancient Greek Philosopher said...

I see. What is the Obama O anyway?
I've never heard of it before. Is
it a piece of art?

Old Fashioned Liberal said...

O. The Obama O is the picture-thing that is on all the Obama signs.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Thank you, "ancient"!

There are political troubles here too. Rashida Datee is a disciple or protégée of Simone Veil and has made a law for keeping prisoners in prison if thought "still dangerous" by "experts", probably of fatalistic enough outlook. Judges are, fortunately, still critical of that law.

And Nicolas "Work more to earn more" Sarkozy is attacking the restrictions on Sunday work and other over-work.

Ancient Greek Philosopher said...

I kind of had a feeling France
would be worse, but the way
we're going, it won't be long
until we're a Communist nation.
:-( My personal opinion on why
Obama won is that I think many
of our current generation voted
for him, and they have been
taught that kind of liberalism
by our current public schools.

Old Fashioned Liberal said...

Your article about Veil has me all confused. I thought that, even with all the confusion about the terms "Liberal" and "Conservative" in the world today, that people used 'right-wing' and 'left-wing' pretty much correctly. How is Wikipedia using it, what are Nicholas Sarkozy's positions, and how should we be using these words?

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

Sarkozy is trying to assemble right-wing and left-wing voters - he succeeded last elections. So is Parti Socialiste.

Mouvement Démocratique is center, too: but somewhat more cultured. Sarkozy favoured his PE teachers, Bayrou is a teacher of letters.

Bové, unless you place him left-wing, is obviously center insofar that all ecologically oriented, all Green Peace fans, have him for hero. He is anticapitalist and I think anticlerical though.

Real rightwing: Front National (anti-immigration, somewhat less anti-abortion), Monarchists

Real left-wing: Besancenot (trotskist), Parti Communiste Français,

Old Fashioned Liberal said...

So, in other words, left-wing and right wing are culturally relative terms in France, just like they are in Israel. Everything you mentioned (unless you meant to say less pro-abortion instead of less anti-abortion for Front National) would be counted as left-wing or maybe center in the United States. You see, I am looking for a good word to describe communists, relativists, and pro-abortion people, and I don't want to use liberal (for obvious reasons) and now it seems that left-wing, being relative, will not work either. Perhaps I should call them small-lawsish, for they break the biggest laws of all, and replace them with a bureaucracy.

Hans Georg Lundahl said...

I meant precisely less anti-abortion. Monastery of Le Barroux, with one royalist exception, voted Le Pen in the nineties. Last election he deprioritated anti-abortion to prioritate anti-illegal-immigration. Which is why people agreeing with him there voted Sarkozy, who is not even anti-abortion.