First, in case you never heard of it, a couple of years ago one of the band’s members put up three effigies in one of Moscow’s big supermarkets, with a sign saying that Jews, gays and migrant workers should be driven out of Moscow. I think the authorities should have looked into their activities back then.
After that, they staged an orgy in a public place. Of course, people are allowed to do whatever they want to do, as long as it’s legal, but this kind of conduct in a public place should not go unnoticed by the authorities.
Putin Jokes About Orgies to Cast Pussy Riot Protesters as Degenerates – NYTimes.com 9/6/2012
I’ve seen the orgy in the museum pictures.
While one in the west and of a Jewish background may lend more attention to abuses and abusers of power, one may become mindful too of abuses of freedom, and then too, within the bipolar and narcissistic constructs with which I’ve played on this blog, the clinical observation of ignored boundaries comes into play.
Perhaps it is one thing within the way of both Playboy and punk ethos to adapt a private space, an hotel room, a mansion, a club to to one’s enthusiasms and quite another to carry them into the public’s cherished secular and religious institutional space.
Where is the ethic in “pushing the boundaries” so far as to breach them entirely?
Hillel the Elder famously stated as the way of Torah, “That which is distasteful to thee, do not do to another.”
The book I own on Hillel, and by the prolific Rabbi Telushkin, is Hillel: If Not Now, When?
Perhaps the volume should be available for reading in prison.
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An RT clip (clean enough and informative just in case you’ve come out of a cage and are blinking in the sun muttering “pussy riot, wha’?”
▶ Pussy Riot has Orgy in museum and has sex with chicken in a supermarket – YouTube
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We’re a wild species.
It’s a fact of nature borne out in thousands of clans, cultures, languages, and religions, and in addition we’re endowed with a remarkably creative survival psychology: our ears turn on and we start scanning for meaningful or useful sound and with just that part active acquire a fair part of our primary or “mother tongue” language and its social rules.
Whether for boredom — a hot mind plays havoc with time — or simple creative misapprehension, one may get things a little bit inside-out.
Add hormones.
And youth culture.
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Cultural and personal self-containment become dimensional themes within the concept of “maturity”. Whether person or state, what does it mean “to mature”?
In the combat- and other war-related videos, one sees both an ugly and kind of stupid side to humanity, but perhaps one sees that too at the edge of a boxing ring or soccer pitch. Still, when the boxer bites an opponent’s ear, cuts out a liver for eating, drags a body naked through the streets — no less did Achilles with Hector’s body, but that was a long time ago — one wants a powerful hand to stay the excesses. There is in that concept of limits, even in war, even with one’s gravest enemy, the ugliness of the Banu Qurayza legend.
Where and when to stop?
Perhaps when and where one has been heard fairly, soundly, and widely and the compromise and respect attending one’s own position becomes certain and mutually beneficial and engaged.
That is the end of the spirit’s suffocation and the annulment of limitless, ruthless self-absorption and its political and social consequences.
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In addition to the politics attending Pussy Riot’s antics, other figures come up frequently in relation to Putin’s autocracy, and they too may bear their own second and closer look in the cause of a more accurate and encompassing comprehension.
Related Reference
Antisocial personality disorder – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bipolar disorder – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Narcissistic personality disorder – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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