#John F. Carlson

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John F. Carlson (American 1874-1945) - The Witch's Cabin

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Woods in Winter

John F. Carlson

ca. 1912

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Bill Graves, Frank Carlson, Jeff Colyer, Frank L. Hagaman, Robert Docking, George Docking, Andrew Frank Schoeppel, Edward F. Arn, John W. Carlin, John McCuish, Fred Hall, John Anderson Jr., Mark Parkinson, Alf Landon, Mike Hayden, Sam Brownback, Payne Ratner, William H. Avery

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Thoughts About The Kitchen Table

At the retirement center, a woman approached me to compliment a  blog I had written.  My reply was to shrug and say the words hadn’t amounted to much.   Later, I recanted, realizing my false humility had made light of her opinion. To be honest, I’d worked hard on that blog. Why pretend otherwise? And why stifle a conversation that could have been enlightening?  I know the answer. I was striving to make an impression.  What distinguishes humans from pebbles on the beach is our self-awareness.  Mindfulness may never answer the question, “Why am I here,” but it builds better societies.  When we understand our motivations and those of others, we allow ourselves to grow wiser and more tolerant. Narrow thinking leads to negative outcomes, like Hostile architecture.  Slanted bus stops to discourage the homeless from taking a nap, or spikes set along a thoroughfare built for the same purpose may deter vagrants, but they are also impediments for people using walkers or wheelchairs and for the visually impaired.  Shelters built for the homeless might be a better use of taxpayer dollars.  Tyrants who focus on themselves are likewise vulnerable to narrow objectives. As former U. S. Secretary of State Robert Gates observed of Vladimir Putin, the Russian President so feared a democratic, modern, and prosperous  Ukraine as an alternative model for Russians next door, [ ] he started a war with his neighbor. (“The Dysfunctional Superpower,” by Robert M. Gates, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 2023, pg. 37.) Unable to assess his limitations, Putin now finds himself mired in a long and costly war.  Unfortunately, some members of the United States Congress suffer the same myopia. Rather than compromise on the national budget, they force the government to survive on a series of continuing resolutions– a strategy that endangers the country’s creditworthiness and safety. China’s military budget is ballooning while continuing resolutions that hold government agencies to the previous year’s budget deprive our Defense Department of the money to innovate. (Ibid, pg 39.) Common sense would tell us war is a poor substitute for peace. Even victors are forced to live in fear of those they have conquered. Little wonder that power struggles seldom take us beyond the present. Hammas and Israelis slaughter one another for a strip of land. They fail to see the planet is already on fire.  Twice in recent days, the earth’s temperature has crossed a threshold scientists warn will lead to catastrophic and irreversible impacts for homo sapiens.  If all the soldiers in all the skirmishes that scar the planet manage to survive, their reward will be to witness the extermination of mankind.   If we are honest, the faults of our leaders reflect our own.  As a species, we prefer short-term solutions to long-term gains. That’s why would-be leaders talk to us about “kitchen table” issues.  They pander to our self-interests rather than remind us of our duty as citizens.  Yet what has the price of gasoline to do with democracy? Conflating one with the other reduces government to its lowest denominator, as if building a society dedicated to values like justice, liberty, and fraternity were secondary.  A government based upon what we can get rather than what we can share makes no demands upon us. All we require are simple answers and tyrants specialize in those.   These Pied Pipers would have us focus on them, encouraging us to believe the fate of the country rests upon their shoulders. And some among us do believe.   One woman called former Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson a messenger from God. (“Outfoxed,” by Brian Stelter, Vanity Fair, Dec/Jan 2023/4, pg. 74.)  Private truths like hers are impervious to facts.  Too many in that frame of mind can form a cancer in the body politic. Left unchecked, we may one day wake to find ourselves in a country no longer united as “we the people,” but one divided between “them and us.” The cure for chaos begins at the cellular level.  Each of us has a duty to our democracy.  Without that commitment, no government of the people, by the people, and for the people will endure.  Let us remember the words of John F. Kennedy at his first inauguration.  … ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.  (inaugural address, 1961.)” 

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John Fabian Carlson (1875-1947)

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signed 'John F. Carlson' (lower right) and signed again (on the reverse of the frame) and inscribed with title and signed again (on the stretcher)

oil on canvas

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Tucker Carlson Reporting On How The Deep State/ CIA Fabricated A Crime, Then Replaced The Most Popular President In History (at the time) With “An Obedient Of The Federal Agencies”… Sound Familiar? “Richard Nixon. Yet somehow without a single vote being cast by a single American voter, Richard Nixon was kicked out of office and replaced by the only unelected president in American history. So we went for the most popular president to a president nobody voted for. Wait a minute, you may ask. Why didn't I know that? Wasn't Richard Nixon a criminal? Wasn't he despised by all decent people? No. He wasn't. In fact, if any president could claim to be the people's choice, it was Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon was reelected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since. Nixon got 17,000,000 more votes than his opponent. Less than 2 years later, he was gone. He was forced to resign. And in his place, an obedient of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford, took over the White House. How did that happen? Well, it's a long story, but here are the highlights, and they tell you a lot. Richard Nixon believed that elements in the federal bureaucracy were working to undermine the American system of government and had been doing that for a long time. He often said that. He was absolutely right. On June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then CIA director Richard Helms at the White House. During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew, quote, who shot John, meaning President John f Kennedy. Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy's assassination, which we now know it was. Helms' telling response, is total silence. But for Nixon, it didn't matter because it was already over. 4 days before on June 19th, the Washington Post had published the first of many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building. Unbeknownst to Nixon and unreported by the Washington Post, 4 of the 5 burglars worked for the CIA. The first of many dishonest Watergate stories, was written by a 29-year-old metro reporter called Bob Woodward. Who exactly was Bob Woodward? Well, he wasn't a journalist. Bob Woodward had no background whatsoever in the news business. Instead, Bob Woodward came directly from declassified areas of the federal government. Shortly before Watergate, Woodward was a naval officer at the Pentagon and paid a top-secret clearance. He worked regularly with the intel agencies. At times, Woodward was even detailed to the Nixon White House where he interacted with Richard Nixon's top aids. Soon after leaving the Navy for reasons that have never been clear, Woodward was hired by the most powerful news outlet in Washington and assigned the biggest story in the country. And just to make it crystal clear what was actually happening, Woodward's main source for his Watergate series was the deputy director of the FBI, Mark Felt. And Mark Felt ran, and we're not making this up, the FBI's COINTELPRO program, which was designed to secretly discredit political actors the federal agencies wanted to destroy, people like Richard Nixon. At the same time, those same agencies were also working to take down Nixon's elected vice president Spiro Agnew. In the fall of 1973, Agnew was indicted for tax evasion and forced to resign. His replacement was a colorless congressman from Grand Rapids called Gerald Ford. What was Ford's qualification for the job? Well, he had served on the Warren Commission, which absolved the CIA of responsibility for President Kennedy's murder. Nixon was strong-armed into accepting Gerald Ford by Democrats in Congress. Quote, we gave Nixon no choice but Ford, speaker of the house Carl Albert later boasted. 8 months later, Gerald Ford of the Warren Commission was the president of the United States. See how that works? So those are the facts. Not speculation. All of that actually happened.” I can’t transcribe it all due to X’s text limits!

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Art Books I Yearn For

This list is a perpetual WIP and subject to change; it also reflects my personal taste and what I'm seeking to cultivate within my own artistic path -- however, I hope it might still prove useful to you as well in some way! Feel free to make suggestions if you so desire.

All shopping links lead to Amazon alternatives.

📚Painting📚

Paint with the Impressionists: A Step-by-Step Guide to Their Methods and Materials for Today’s Artists by Jonathan Stephenson (shopping link)

Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn’t Exist by James Gurney (shopping link)

Color and Light by James Gurney (shopping link)

Carlson’s Guide to Landscape Painting by John F. Carlson (shopping link)

📚Drawing📚

Perspective Drawing Handbook by Joseph d’Amelio (shopping link)

Sketching from Imagination: Creatures & Monsters by 3D Total Publishing (shopping link)

📚Human Anatomy📚

Morpho: Joint Forms & Muscular Functions by Michel Lauricella (shopping link)

Morpho: Skeleton & Bone Reference Points by Michel Lauricella (shopping link)

Morpho: Hands & Feet by Michel Lauricella (shopping link)

Anatomy for the Artist by Sarah Simblet (shopping link)

📚Other Anatomy📚

Botany for the Artist by Sarah Simblet (shopping link)

📚Creating Graphic Novels/Comics📚

Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre (shopping link)

Framed Ink 2: Frame Format, Energy, and Composition for Visual Storytellers by Marcos Mateu-Mestre (shopping link)

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (shopping link)

Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form by Scott McCloud (shopping link)

📚Art History📚

Impressionism by Karen H. Grimme (shopping link)

📚Artist Spotlight📚

Object Compendium by Killian Eng (shopping link)

The Style of Loish by Lois van Baarle (shopping link)

Arthur Rackham: His Life and Work by Derek Hudson (shopping link)

J. C. Leyendecker: American Imagist by Judy Goffman Cutler & Laurence S. Cutler (shopping link)

📚Other📚

Palette Perfect for Graphic Designers and Illustrators: Color Combinations, Meanings and Cultural References by Sarah Caldas (shopping link)

Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, and Students (revised and expanded 2nd edition) by Ellen Lupton (shopping link)

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Tucker Carlson attacked John Fetterman over stroke and accidentally made him sound really cool | indy100

Tucker Carlson is a lame-ass douche-bag, racist, bigot and Professional Liar. He's a sickening example of how low Murdoch and the Executive management at FoxFakeNews will stoop for ratings and clicks. The deceitful, divisive lies and exaggerations spewed from their filthy mouths 24/7 show that Carlson - and quite frankly anyone who works at or for FoxFakeNews - is participating in the ongoing damage to our democratic republic and American society.

I wish they would all S T F U!!!

VOTE BLUE 2022

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John F. Carlson - Woods in Winter (ca. 1912)

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Kennedy, MKUltra et CIA: «L’Etat profond a créé l’arme de la "théorie du complot"»–Tucker Carlson

L’expression de «théorie du complot» n'existait pas avant 1964, rappelle Tucker Carlson, année où la Commission Warren a publié son rapport bidon sur l’assassinat de Kennedy.

«De nos jours, le terme de «théorie du complot» est utilisé comme une arme contre quiconque pose des questions auxquelles le gouvernement n’aime pas répondre.»

En avril 1964, un psychiatre appelé Louis Joylon West a rendu visite à Jack Ruby [l’assassin de l’assassin de JFK]. West travaillait pour la CIA, ce que l’Agence a caché, mais il était aussi un expert en «mind control» et un acteur de premier plan du programme MKUltra, un «complot» lors duquel des psychotropes (LSD) ont été administrés à des Américains, à leur insu.

Jeudi, les Archives nationales américaines ont déclassifié des milliers de documents sur l'assassinat du président John F. Kennedy en 1963… pour «restaurer la confiance dans le gouvernement».

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Las nubes son fascinante de pintar porque son el único elemento en un paisaje que posee libertad de movimiento.

John F. Carlson.

MAVi.

Fotografía: MAVi. "Viendo las nubes desde la ventana"

Sueños y fantasmas. El arte de soñar.

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Kanye West is no free thinker

Oct 20, 2022 at 2:00 pm

After his anti-Semitic posts and tweets were removed from Instagram and Twitter, the hosts of “Fox & Friends” rushed to the defense of Ye (formerly known as Kanye West), claiming that the rapper is a “target of big tech because he’s too dangerous and too outspoken and too much of a free thinker.” In response, John Legend ridiculed the suggestion that Ye is a free thinker, tweeting, “Weird how all these ‘free, independent thinkers’ always land at the same old anti blackness and anti semitism.”

Legend is right. Having hateful, discriminatory, conspiratorial, controversial or outrageous thoughts does not make one independent-minded, for such thoughts can be just as unfree as any other thought. People can be brainwashed and indoctrinated to believe conventional ideologies just as much as they can be brainwashed and indoctrinated to believe radical ideologies.

Kanye West (Evan Agostini/Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Many popular ideas are held by people not because people have come to hold them by thinking independently of others, but rather precisely because those ideas are popular. In argumentation studies, this is known as argumentum ad populum or “appeal to the people.” It is a mistake in logical reasoning that occurs when a claim is said to be true or acceptable just because many people believe or accept it. More informally, this mistake in logical reasoning is known as “the bandwagon fallacy.”

Take, for example, the idea of the so-called “American Dream,” i.e., the idea that upward social mobility in the United States depends only on how hard one is willing to work. This idea is an integral part of the ethos of the United States, which is why many Americans believe it, almost without question, even if they have not come to accept it by independent thought.

In fact, independent thought would probably lead one to the conclusion that the so-called “American Dream” is a myth, as many European countries now have higher rates of economic mobility. Nevertheless, most Americans still jump on the “American Dream” bandwagon, not because they are free thinkers, but simply because they are Americans and when in America, you believe as Americans believe.

A similar phenomenon can happen within political movements or fringe groups: You come to believe what those with whom you associate believe. That’s not freedom of thought.

It is not the content of a thought that makes it a free thought. Rather, it is the way in which one comes to have a thought that makes that thought a free one. It is likely that Ye did not come up with the anti-Semitic thoughts expressed in his (now deleted) Instagram posts and tweets freely and independently. Instead, he was most likely repeating ideas he has picked up from social media, or from being around Trump’s supporters, QAnon followers and other conspiracy theorists.

After all, the conspiratorial idea that Jewish people somehow control the world, the media or whatever, which Ye has expressed in his tweets, is not novel. It can be traced back to the early 20th century, with the hoax known as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, if not earlier. And Tucker Carlson, who is one of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, and on whose show Ye appeared shortly before posting his anti-Semitic posts on Instagram and Twitter, is known for espousing racist ideas, such as the so-called “replacement theory.”

Trying to defend Ye’s anti-Semitic social media posts by claiming that he is a free thinker is not only morally despicable but also fallacious. Genuinely free thinkers do not jump on bandwagons simply because others do.

Mizrahi is associate professor of philosophy at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Fla.

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While the term borderline has been applied to many different patients, we propose that the core group of people generally designated by this vexing term are those stably unstable people whose sudden alterations in mood, sense of self, and relationship to others are manifestations of partially or fully dissociated self-states. When dissociation is partial, there is usually (1) continuity of identity, (2) superficial awareness of abrupt changes in affect or behavior, (3) minimal ability to link these states in consciousness, and (4) little acknowledgment of the significance of these shifting states. Often conceptualized as “splitting,” these shifts are not assessed by tests of dissociation such as the Dissociative Experiences Scale DES; Carlson & Putnam, 1992) or the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID; Dell, 2001, 2006a).

Ultimately, an understanding of BPD depends on how we understand the process of dissociation in personality disorders in general and its role in specific personality patterns. Perhaps it is better not to rely on diagnostic categories that have significant overlap in criteria and questionable validity. Behavior that is impulsive, attention-seeking, manipulative, or mendacious might be better described for what it actually is. The current formulation for BPD conflates histrionic and antisocial traits with posttraumatic and dissociative symptoms. This may confound therapeutic efforts by implying a common etiology and course of treatment for diverse disorders. Nor does it make sense to confuse the symptoms of simple PTSD with the severe relationship disturbances that derive from attachment to an abusive caregiver. Borderline personality, as defined by DSM-IV, refers to a variety of problematic behaviors and a broad range of impairment, none of which are clearly specified simply by assigning the diagnosis of BPD. It makes more sense to focus on the characteristic alternation of dissociated self-states in BPD, and to conceptualize these shifts in terms of a spectrum of dissociated self-states, rather than an assortment of symptoms that are often, but not necessarily, associated with this core feature.

We consider the key process in BPD to be the shifting of dissociated self-states, rather than an assortment of symptoms that are often, but not necessarily, associated with this core feature. These shifts generate the affect dysregulation, identity disturbance, and unstable relationships that have characterized BPD in both the traditional and contemporary literature. Accordingly, we recommend that BPD be defined as the presence of dissociated, alternating self-states with contradictory patterns of attachment. The manifestations of the disorder in the particular individual should be described by specifying (1) the presence and severity of the full range of dissociative symptoms, and (2) personality traits. Co-occurring pathology such as substance abuse, eating disorders, or antisocial behavior should be separately diagnosed. This would avoid forcing patients into the Procrustean bed of a single category that currently has such pejorative implications.

Chronic Relational Trauma Disorder: A New Diagnostic Scheme for Borderline Personality and the Spectrum of Dissociative Disorders Elizabeth F. Howell, PhD Ruth A. Blizard, PhD

From Dissociation and the dissociative disorders: DSM-V and beyond / edited by Paul F. Dell and John A. O'Neil (2009)

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“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

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Woods in Winter, John F. Carlson