The Register has this story about the protest against the Brian Doan photo exhibit at Cypress College. It has a video too, which the Bolsavik has embedded at the end of this entry. Watch to through and check out the videographer’s first name. How apropos!
Excerpts from the Reg’s story by Michael Mello:
Over the past week, representatives of the Vietnamese community have twice met with Cypress College officials. Both times they were told that the photo will remain on exhibit.
“We’ve had a great dialogue,” college President Michael Kasler said, as he watched the crowd in front of the arts building. “I listened to their concerns. … We’re not taking the art down, but this is America. We can have different views.” He has invited Vietnamese-American groups to hold a forum at the campus this spring to share their views.
Kasler said he told them his own grandparents in Ukraine perished at the hands of communists during World War II. Still, he doesn’t believe Doan’s photo and its subject to be propaganda.
“To me, she’s not advocating communism,” Kasler said. “She looks very forlorn.”
Doan has said he sees the photograph as free expression he would not be allowed to make in Vietnam.
Here’s the video. Click here to watch if the embedding doesn’t work.
“You can observe a lot by watching.” Yogi Berra
Vietnamese Americans fall in love with the concept of rights including the right to squabble over whose rights are more important, my right or your right.
The original idea of government was to ensure a right to compete freely in a marketplace of ideas, not a right to have a huge pissing match to say my right is superior than your right.
For many, the fight between democracy good guys and Communist evil guys is pretty tame stuff to keep us stay amused.
Good against Evil, like actors changing masks, where the heroes become monsters and the monsters become heroes, in according to the demanding of the theater’s playwrights
In time, we learn to realize that there are things hardly ever going to change; therefore we ought to make the lemonade from the life-lemons to the best as we know how.
I applaud these brave individuals for speaking their mind! Protest, speak your mind, and go home as civilized citizens. That’s the American spirit. No harm, not foul.
XYX,
The gian bien doi vung den doi
Man chac chua cay lan ngot bui.
Con tien con bac, con de tu.
Het com het gao, het ong toi.
I forgot the author.
@Country First,
“Nhân Tình Thế Thái” của Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm:
Thế gian biến đổi vũng nên đồi
Mặn nhạt chua cay lẫn ngọt bùi
Còn bạc còn tiền còn đệ tử
Hết cơm hết rượu hết ông tôi
Xưa nay đều trọng người chân thực
Ai nấy nào ưa kẻ đãi bôi
Ở thế mới hay người bạc ác
Giàu thì tìm đến khó tìm lui
Anh Tien,
Thank you for your help.
Do you happen to know the historical background of this poem ?
Perhaps the following paragraph may provide some background information for Nguyen Binh Khiem’s poems.
http://www.thptnan.com/Ngu-van/Triet-li-nhan-sinh-cua-Nguyen-Binh-Khiem-trong-bai-tho-Nhan.nan
Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm (1491 – 1585) sống gần trọn một thế kỉ đầy biến động của chế độ phong kiến Việt Nam: Lê – Mạc xưng hùng, Trịnh – Nguyễn phân tranh. Trong những chấn động làm rạn nứt những quan hệ nền tảng của chế độ phong kiến, ông vừa vạch trần những thế lực đen tối làm đảo lộn cuộc sống nhân dân , vừa bảo vệ trung thành cho những giá trị đạo ly’ tốt đẹp qua những bài thơ giàu chất triết ly’ về nhân tình thế thái, bằng thái độ thâm trầm của bậc đại nho.
Yes,
Civil strife and human misery are eternal traits of Vietnamese people.
XYX,
Hero’s Journey (The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell)
The following portion would be most relevant to our generational conflicts :
Atonement with the Father:
In myth, a parental figure is responsible for guiding the hero through the journey. This representation echoes the need for each person to break free from childhood into adulthood. A father figure may be portrayed as the vengeful male threatened by the rise of the hero and so establishes a horrifying conflict. The hero seeks atonement or “at-one-ment” with the father. Despite a wrathful figure, the hero has faith that The Father is merciful and he must rely on that mercy. In turn, The Father has a change of heart and the fearful image dissolves. The hero is released from the situation through reconciliation, forgiveness and mercy.
http://www.mythichero.com/what_is_mythology.htm
** The Father has to show mercy for the atonement to be completed **
Brian Doan is indeed on his journey of searching for meanings. He is being swallowed into the unknown abyss, reborn in the new world, and may appear to those left behind as dead or lost. This may manifest as the hero is swallowed into the darkness and lands in the ‘Belly of the Whale.’ There he awaits rebirth or release from this purgatorial state. His release here symbolizes a relinquishing of attachment to the world left behind.
Facing his atonement is his next challenge.
From “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”
The Vietnamese people have so many bad character traits. Among those traits is brutality. Read the Vietnamese history. It is a history of killing among themselves (Viet against Viet) after gaining independence from China. They buried people alive while those people were worshiping their ancestors. They massacred the Chiem Thanh people to near extinction. They followed the devil French colonists and the devil international Communists. During the recent war, both sides were so brutal against each other. The war was over more than 30 years but there are still so many people now a day advocating for continuing the war. I agree with the late author Hoang Van Chi’ that the Vietnamese have problems with morality. “If we (the Vietnamese people) adhered to morality, neither the French nor the Communists would be able to dominate us” – Hoang Van Chi’
Cheap art and cheap people . These people can’t see the high and low ,they keep going into the opposite of maintream .Why ?? low IQ ,shell shock or retard ??? Spychologists believe that human behavor in the present could be linked from past abuse .
ATONEMENT WITH THE FATHER_ Brian Doan’s journey
“Luke, I am your father.” – Darth Vader
“Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back”
In the ATONEMENT with the father, one must first slay the ogre of their own superego and id. So that what is left is the ego, which must in turn also be defeated, which is difficult because it requires submission and the abandonment of one’s own ego to the trust of the father.
It is why, most of the time, teenage sons rebel against their fathers, only to discover when they get older that their fathers only wanted the best for them to begin with.
As a classic example I submit the Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader dynamic in “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back” and “Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi”. When Luke first discovers that Darth Vader is his father, his immediate reaction is one of rebellion, (“No, I’ll never join you!” paraphrased).
But in ROTJ, he actually surrenders to his father, counting on his father’s mercy in order not only to bring his father’s character back from the Dark Side.
** By surrendering to his Father, Luke saves his Father from the Dark Side **
There are many Darth Vaders in the protest group .
You could say “none” or you could say all.
It is a metaphorical process of personal transformation.
The real Darth Vader is at home ,not in the protest group at the Cypress college .
Country First, I see that you have been watching PBS (Joseph Campbell) lately…
Li’l
Yes, Joseph Campbell about 25 years ago, roughly. I still read his books whenever I need to search for an answer, or an interpretation of a symbol.
Country First/Ca_uong, good to hear. Have a good evening.
** The Atonement of Brian Doan **
Brian Doan has been swallowed into an unknown abyss, in the ‘Belly of the Whale”. Struggling to break free from past world of darkness into the new world of awakening. Vengeful Father threatened by the rise of the Brian Doan trying to challenge the Father’s fragile world of rules and orders.
The Father then launches a horrifying conflict with Brian Doan.
He must have faith in the humanity of The Father, and he must rely on that mercy. In turn, The Father must recognize the limits of his world, and a change of heart would dissolves hateful image.
** Darth Vade, after taking of the mask, returned to humanity **
** All Fathers, take off your mask now, to return to humanity, take off your military facades **
** Take off your world of revenge to witness the atonement of your son **
Having faith in the humanity of the Father is not realistic. The Father is a fruit of a poisonous tree. He is a poisoned fruit! He is so contaminated with hatred for so long that he has become the hatred. Don’t expect a change of heart from the father. He cannot be atoned with. Just love him as he is now but let him stay in his old world and continue the adventure into the new world of freedom!
** The Atonement of Brian Doan **
This is the center point of the journey. For the transformation to take place, the person as he must be “killed” so that the new self can come into being. One must first slay the ogre of one own superego and id. He moves beyond the pairs of opposites to a state of divine knowledge, love, compassion and bliss.
His ultimate submission and abandonment of one’s own ego to the trust of the father will release him from the old bondage and ignorance.
** Part of the mythical hero’s journey **
“I am a Jedi, like my father before me.”
- Luke Skywalker, “Star Wars: The Return of the Jedi”
The Batard Brian Doan has no conscience and no father. Leave this universe and stop hurting our people!
We need to send a letter to his employer Long Beach City College and it’s college board asking this idiot to be removed from the teaching staff.
** The Atonement of Brian Doan **
The conversation between Brian Doan and the Oracle ( The Matrix )
The Oracle: Sorry, kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you’re waiting for something.
The Oracle: But you already know what I’m going to tell you.
Brian Doan: I’m not The ONE ! ! !.
The Oracle: Your next life maybe, who knows? That’s the way these things go.
…
The Oracle: What’s funny?
Brian Doan: BOLSAVIK almost had me convinced.
The Oracle: I know. Poor BOLSAVIK. Without him we’re lost.
…
Brian Doan: What do you mean, without him?
The Oracle: Are you sure you want to hear this? BOLSAVIK believes in you, Brian. And no one, not you, not even me can convince him otherwise. He believes it so blindly that he’s going to sacrifice his life to save yours.
Brian Doan: What?
The Oracle: You’re going to have to make a choice. In the one hand you’ll have BOLSAVIK’s life and in the other hand you’ll have your own. One of you is going have to vanish. Which one will be up to you, Brian Doan. I’m sorry, kiddo, I really am. You have a good soul, and I hate giving good people bad news.
The Oracle
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Three Kids (USA ,USSR,China) playing the toys at the park – JI Joe action figure and the adventure dream team figures :
We were action figures and ultimate soldiers .We were heroes .We were the legend .
http://www.mysite4u.com/toys/gijoe/index.htm
Good site for JI Joe collectible toys for big boys .
A secrete convo between Master Protestor Ngo Ky and “artist” Brian Doan recorded during Tet Festival.
Ngo Ky: Hey wassup Brian?..You re famous now heh?..
Brian D: Damn….I ve been waiting for ya to protest my craps to make me famous bro?..To tell you the truth, nobody would know my name and this hole-in-the-wall Cypress College without you guys?..What ya think bud?
Ngo Ky: Nah, can t do that home….Cause i gotta ask you artists to do me a favor too….You knows?..Arts related.
Brian D: Sure bro, we re on the same boat here, will do my best bud.
Ngo Ky: Got this portrait, want you to display it in your show to upgrade my image…you know?..Ky Ngo the artist stuff?..
Brian D: But?…….This s just a shot of a toilet?..I can t do that?.
Ngo Ky: Toilet?..No way Jose….You gotta bullshit somehow with your art definition man?..Maybe saying it s deepshit…..Oh…Diptych art?..Actually, you know the toilet has come a long way since the stone age?..I know Flintstones didn t have toilets?..
Brian D: Yeh, good idea for a welfarecase like you Ngo Ky, maybe i can say it s an engineering wonder?..Or human revolution?..
Ngo Ky: You re a smart man Brian, anyway…How much did you buy that Art Degree at Cypress College?..
Brian D: I earned it fool….Took me 6 years.
Ngo Ky: Sorry man, i thought you told me Cypress College have a weekend swapmeet, you can buy junks there?..
Brian D: OK, deal….We re gonna be famous dude. Maybe i can afford a 3 mega pixel digital camera next year man. Chao.
Brian Doan’s first meeting with the Oracle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk5ahbpOsWA
Such a meaningful dialog ! ! !
The Redemption of the Father :
By removing the mask, Darth Vader resumed his human character, and frailty
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qruijbk6_VU
Brian Doan’s rebellion against his Teachers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw
Another Brick in The Wall by Pink Floyd
Obama’s policy on Vietnam :
The United States state department released its human rights report on February 25 2009
The Socialist Republic of Vietnam, with a population of approximately 86 million, is an authoritarian state ruled by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). The most recent National Assembly elections, held in May 2007, were neither free nor fair, since all candidates were vetted by the CPV’s Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), an umbrella group that monitored the country’s mass organizations. Civilian authorities generally maintained effective control of the security forces.
The government’s human rights record remained unsatisfactory. Citizens could not change their government, and political opposition movements were prohibited. The government continued to crack down on dissent, arresting political activists and causing several dissidents to flee the country. Police sometimes abused suspects during arrest, detention, and interrogation. Corruption was a significant problem in the police force, and police officers sometimes acted with impunity. Prison conditions were often severe. Individuals were arbitrarily detained for political activities and denied the right to fair and expeditious trials. The government continued to limit citizens’ privacy rights and tightened controls over the press and freedom of speech, assembly, movement, and association. The government maintained its prohibition of independent human rights organizations. Violence and discrimination against women remained a concern. Trafficking in persons continued to be a significant problem. Some ethnic minority groups suffered societal discrimination. The government limited workers’ rights and arrested or harassed several labor activists.
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/eap/119063.htm
Since throwing the communist government by force is not possible, why don’t we think of other options? How about allowing the communist leadership and their followers to come to the USA freely so that they understand and enjoy freedom that we have here and they may change themselves? How about exposing our freedom to the oppressed people in VN so that they themselves may rise up against the dictatorial communist government? How about we the refugees respect and practice the freedom to set an example for the oppressed people as well as the dictatorial communists in VN to follow? In the US, this option works; people are free to join the communist party but very few people choose to do so.
Do you think the VN communist leaders really think about the well being of their people? No, they could care less. With that mindset, the only thing that matters to those goons is wealth creation at any cost.
Among those immoral communist leaders, there might be some leaders who possess the morality trait of our ancestors. Besides, Mikhail Gorbachev might provide some inspiration.
Vietnam economic performance :
* Vietnam had an average growth in GDP of 7.1% per year from 2000 to 2004. The GDP growth was 8.4% in 2005, the second largest growth in Asia, trailing only China’s. in 2007 growth rate at 7.5%. Impressive rate among developing countries.
* Projected GDP growth for 2009 is around 2%, better than Thailand and Phillipines
* Project export contraction for 2009 : 20% to 30% better than many other Asian countries.
** It’s about the economy, stupid. by Bill Clinton 1992 **