{"id":29886,"date":"2013-12-09T00:20:48","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T00:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=29886"},"modified":"2013-12-09T00:20:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T00:20:48","slug":"gestures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=29886","title":{"rendered":"Gestures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; I got caught in a cascade of images, swept away &#8212; and then, Mao ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>This gesture seems to me to have the quality of a caress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"caress\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>in which case a caress in Kyiv is not so different from piano music in that same city&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pianist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pianist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pianist\" width=\"600\" height=\"346\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pianist.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/pianist-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or, as it might be, cello music in Sarajevo&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-0626_Vedran_Smailovic_plays_in_Sarajevo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-0626_Vedran_Smailovic_plays_in_Sarajevo.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"wpid-0626_Vedran_Smailovic_plays_in_Sarajevo\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29889\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-0626_Vedran_Smailovic_plays_in_Sarajevo.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/wpid-0626_Vedran_Smailovic_plays_in_Sarajevo-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or for that matter, simply standing motionless in Tienanmen Square&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PHO-09Jun01-163975_China001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PHO-09Jun01-163975_China001.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"PHO-09Jun01-163975_China001\" width=\"600\" height=\"393\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PHO-09Jun01-163975_China001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/PHO-09Jun01-163975_China001-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>or planting flowers in Washington, DC&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flowers-and-guns.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flowers-and-guns.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"flowers-and-guns\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flowers-and-guns.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/flowers-and-guns-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Caresses, music, stillness, flowers&#8230; there&#8217;s a kinship there.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>But then again, maybe these gestures are too idealistic for the realist&#8217;s &#8220;real world&#8221; &#8212; and to quote <strong>Chairman Mao<\/strong> in refutation of that last image:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Every Communist must grasp the truth, &#8220;Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I keep coming back to that first image &#8212; stunning!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"caress\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress.jpg 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/caress-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thing about it &#8212; to my eye &#8212; the humanity is clearly visible on both sides&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; I got caught in a cascade of images, swept away &#8212; and then, Mao ] . 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