Before importing communism to America ask anyone who lived through it how much they loved it by Mirena Rhee

Ideally watch footage of people getting shot trying to leave East Germany.

What socialists and communists never understood is that you can't make something with nothing, you have to take it from some place or some one. It's physics.

One way to do it is to take it from rich people. Well we tried that, my grandparents saw the shootings of their colleagues and peers with money and putting them in mass graves. That didn't really help the Communist country did it. They just shot all the people that knew how to do shit.

The way to do it in my opinion is to create a great manufacturing basis, with great jobs where people feel productive. Where even people without much education could go and get a decent job and feel good and productive at the end of the day.

I've never met anyone that likes handouts. Every human being wants to be decent and have a decent life and dignity. Because the handout always has to be taken from some place or from someone.

Communism and socialism always starts small with getting free stuff to the people and then shortly proceeds to the shooting of the people I can tell you from experience. So eventually all the communists and socialists will start shooting people because they don't know how to do anything else.

In Greece I loaded up on Beauty, Athens, Delphi, Crete, Knossos, Santorini, Naxos, Meteora by Mirena Rhee

I've have been loading up on the beautiful of Greece for many years at the museums around the world. I've seen the Greek world at the Met in New York, I've seen it at the British Museum and the Louvre.

The islands and the sights were breathtaking.

The Partenon marbles should be returned to Greece and the British Museum is in utter disgrace for refusing it.

AI critiques my procrastinating by Mirena Rhee

I think you've developed an extremely elaborate ecosystem of activities surrounding painting that lets you remain an artist all day without enduring the uncomfortable moment of actually making the painting

I cracked up. And I told the AI that this is the first time I laughed at anything an AI says. And the AI was pleased with itself. lol. It does make shit up as it goes but so do we.

Hahaha, then I am extremely pleased with myself.

But I think it worked because it was true: you have somehow invented the world’s most intellectually rigorous method of not painting.