The Aristocrats

[Old and In the Way]

Simply a great read here:

If you are unfamiliar with the Dirtiest Joke in the World, here’s a little primer.

It’s a gorgeous day here in my city and I’m going to pack up my laptop and find a lovely place to eat. So in lieu of a Sunday sermon, here’s my version:

The Republican Party walks into the American people’s living rooms, and says, "We're the Family Value’s Party, and we'd like to represent you."

The American People say, "Sorry, but we’re a little leery of Family Values parties. They tend to be scams run by demagogues.”

Republican Party says, "But this is really special."

The American People says, "Okay, well what's the act?"

The Republican Party replies, "Well after the worst attack on American soil in history, we hijack the nation's grief and rage to plunge us into a war with entirely the wrong country.

“Then we let the actual terrorist responsible for the attack to sit in a comfy chair on the edge of the stage and laugh and laugh and laugh for the duration of the performance.
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http://www.thenewsblog.net/2007/04/driftglass-aristocrats.html

[lisa58]

1. It's not funny...

...but I get it.

[Old and In the Way]

3. It's not funny, but it is obscene as hell.

Really, I couldn't frame the Bush Years any better than this.

[lisa58]

4. You're right....

...it's horrible...it will be over soon and hopefully will take the "R" party with it!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

2. I get to "R" a Republican Party/American people Aristocrats joke.

This is a good night on DU. :bounce: MKJ

[Colobo]

5. The Aristocrats is a very overrated joke

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

10. I didn't know it was joke.

It seems to be much more than that. :shrug: MKJ

[undergroundpanther]

6. If anyone

made a flash movie of this "play" using news footage and such(add in Abu Gharib and Guantanimo) or staged it as a performance and put it on U tube it would be incredible,because there the republican atrocities would be all put together in the most vile brew to spoonfeed the koolaid drinkers,Republitards to the point they might get so saturated with thier own minds they'll be sick of republican ANYTHING.A performance like that would be a real Theatre of Cruelty.


In analyzing his particular mission in the theater, Artaud divides humanity into two groups: the primitive or pre-logical group and the civilized or logical group. The roots of the real theater are to be found in the first group. At the Colonial Exposition of 1931, where he saw the Balinese theater, he was struck by the tremendous difference between those plays and our traditional Western play. He felt that the Balinese dramatic art must be comparable to the orphic mysteries that interested Mallarmé. A dramatic presentation should be an act of initiation during which the spectator will be awed and even terrified--and to such a degree that he will lose control of his reason. During that experience of terror or frenzy, instigated by the dramatic action, the spectator will be in a position to understand a new set of truths, superhuman in quality.

Although Artaud was usually condemnatory of Christianity, he defined the goal of the theater in spiritual terms. Its "sacred" goal, he claimed, is to communicate delirium whereby the spectators will experience trances and inspiration. Dramatic art induces as strong a delirium as a plague does. A true play, according to Artaud's concept, will disturb in the spectator his tranquillity of mind and his senses, and it will liberate his subconscious. Aristotle had emphasized especially the ethical power of the theater. Artaud intends to release its mediumistic force. If the theater is able to exalt man, it will drive him back to the mysterious primitive forces of his being.

The method Artaud proposes by which this will be brought about is to associate the theater with danger and cruelty. "This will bring the demons to the surface," he says. Words spoken on the stage will then have the power they possess in dreams. Language will become an incantation.
http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/artaud001.html

Why not destroy the republicans through theatre...A theatre of mirrors made of thier own cruelty reflected back.

[Old and In the Way]

8. I could see the Rude Pundit doing justice to this on stage....

sledgehammer the audience with a brutal stream of Republican Aristocratic values. It'll make the entire audience want to puke.

[undergroundpanther]

9. It would kick ass

Especially with artaud's idea of audeince immersion into the sick of it. But with flash and video you can't quite do that, but I think of Pink Floyd's the wall..with the worms and marching and all kinda captuires what is in my head,and the"judge" who's a big ass...


That kind of shocking distrurbing stuff combined with a hyper dry realistic documentary feel almost like Brecht,That alternating with Artaud's shock and horror moving by almost like a rotating buffet of poisoned food and dead bodies with pretty folded napkins and fine china and decorative garnishes..

Design it to FUCK them up psychologically and emotionally with thier own shit.

http://www.thewallanalysis.com/Intro.html

[undergroundpanther]

7. Think of the rigid republican assholes and read this

Artaud
To Be Done with the Judgment of God

(1947)

Man is sick because he is badly constructed.

We must make up our minds to strip him bare in order to scrape

off that animalcule that itches him mortally,

god,

and with god

his organs.



For you can tie me up if you wish,

but there is nothing more useless than an organ.



When you will have made him a body without organs,

then you will have delivered him from all his automatic reactions

and restored him to his true freedom.



Then you will teach him again to dance wrong side out

as in the frenzy of dance halls

and this wrong side out will be his real place.