Paul Klee Ad Marginem (To The Brim)1930Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

Paul Klee Ad Marginem (To the Brim) 1930 Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

Small town culture is knowing that there are Old Folks with strange nicknames but never knowing the stories behind them.

Of course, I made the mistake of asking why everyone calls this one guy Brickaday and it turns out that he worked at a brickyard for 40 years, stealing exactly one brick every day and making no particular efforts to conceal the theft. Nobody thought anything of it until years later he was discovered to have built three houses.

His boss is said to have shrugged and made some remarks about the importance of coming up with a plan and sticking to it.

I‘m trying to arrange my face into an appropriate approximation of silent bafflement and failing miserably.

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// the fun thing about history is that it's so messy

so the US can be a horrible colonial power and also be one of the biggest forces of anti-colonialism in the world at the same time

like the mid-20th century is just the US having to deal with Britain and France and the Dutch trying to save their empires despite the fact that these are bad things

and then at the same time that it's trying to get them to stop that it's also setting up anti-commie states at any cost which leads to a mess

absolutely baffling foreign policy of 'anything but communism' which leads to somehow being both imperialist and anti-colonialist

only the US could be so baffling and against itself

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