by Gouda » Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:15 pm
Pan...love that loooong dinner table. Lucky you. Did you retire to the library for post-dinner discussion? Did you meet Pepe, Trudy's driver? (Pepe was our guide). And how about that sculpture in the garden by Roberto de Nuevo York depicting Diego Rivera's racy "double life"?! <br><br>I did not mean to give an impression there was anything sinister about the Bloms or the Casa. In fact, they seem to have exorcised a machete-weilding malcontent spirit that had haunted the place prior to their acquisition. The facts I included about their guests (Baker!?), Rockefeller associations, and Frans' previous work with Oil, the pyramid changing his life etc., is interesting in the context of a lot of what we have been discussing around here...I think it is more a case of their work attracting the attention of certain interests rather than their actively (or 'knowingly') collaborating with such groups (I am thinking about the whole Oil - New Age - Ecofascism nexus - and the Eurasian thing comes in with studies possibly linking these Maya to Mongolian peoples - if that is true or not i am not informed enough to say). Tenuous, but intriguing. <br><br>Like I said, they certainly had/have the trust of the Lancadon maya and they had the trust of Zapatistas (though I do not know how it is today), and I know Trudy was a brilliant advocate for Mayan rights contra corporate/hegemonic interests. I threw that stuff out there almost as a memo-to-self to look into it more, or to see if anyone here might have more information. I do not want to insinuate anything on the guilt-by-association level especially as I do not have all the facts or personal accounts. It is ALWAYS more complicated and layered than the surface appearance. <br><br>One thing that is sinister is that the guy in charge of Trudy's negatives was out when I wanted to buy a couple of her prints. <p></p><i></i>
