jbml 84 thln: in response to your proposal ~~~~~~~

THAT WE DISCUSS
"[t]he near-simultaneous emergence
of scientific claims of imminent climatic catastrophe,
apocalyptic millenarianism among fundamentalist Jews & Christians,
and suicide terrorism ~ is Death the new Life?" (and also in response to my own initial reference
to Ralph Bakshi's movies), I offer
the following anecdote:
AS YOU KNOW,
JONAH'S BEEN ATTENDING THE INTENSIVE SUMMER YIDDISH PROGRAM AT YIVO.
YESTERDAY AFTERNOON I'D BEEN PLANNING TO PICK HIM UP RIGHT AFTER CLASS AT 3:00 AND TAKE HIM TO NEW JERSEY TO VISIT MY MOTHER. HE CALLED IN THE MORNING TO EXPLAIN HE WAS GOING TO SPEND THE DAY SHOOOTING A MUSIC VIDEO INSTEAD, AND I WALKED OVER TO VISIT HIM ON THE "SET."

He explained that he'd been walking down the sidewalk on his way to class and,
when stopped to find out what was going on, someone approached him to ask if he'd spend the day "playing a rabbi" in the video
for a song about, as he says, "the end of the world." With his thin facial hair, a long black costume jacket, fake PAYESS & big black hat, he looks like a YESHIVA BOKHER on the Yiddish stage:
but he convincingly looks like that.

Evidently in the crowd scene, he and someone else dressed as a Muslim are supposed to be praying together.
I reminded him of the "praying rabbis" scene in Bakshi's WIZARDS,
WHICH I DESCRIBED ABOVE IN
Time and Human Language Now.

Bakshi made his film, of course, before the end of the world as we know it
became a fashionable theme (though after David Bowie's song "Five Years"knipoog.

Now the theme of "the end of the world" seems to teeter on the verge of being passé.

(God re-minishing about when those funny people created worried about the end of their world.)

And, as to my own proposed list of topics,
two can be alluded to briefly here.

Item 4:
"IF IT (language)
STOPPED FOR A GENERATION,
THE WHOLE THING WOULD BE LOST!"
We are, at any rate, keeping it going, in the present. As to the future,
what will have been,
will have been.

Item 5:
My concerns
about the inevitability
of egotistic motives "infecting" such a clearly
& purely speculative
effort as
this.

Solved;
now that,
for the most part,
this exchange has
been, it still doesn't make me feel especially
smart (so much missed, so many wheels
are reinvented!), let alone confident that
others will be impressed by
all this, but it's
been fun for
the most
part.
OK!
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