There is an irony that Black Swan Oscar-winner Natalie Portman , one face of Dior, should accuse her one-time colleague, John Galliano , the other face of Dior, for being a raving genius - when Black Swan is precisely about the power of destructive negative elements within the psyche to both inspire, and destroy. If, as seems the case, that the current video of a slovenly, slurring bohemian in Paris sneeringly claiming that the Holocaust was a great idea, and A.H. someone to love, is really Galliano, then he is kaput. I don't see a way forward for him, with this sort of racism at his core. Anti-Semitism is a nasty and stupid crime, and intolerable. Eliot , had he lived in the YouTube age, might have wrecked himself more clearly with his views. While we have Pound 's fascist broadcast transcripts, and a few recordings, they are not widely known or available, though now studied. I wonder if it is time to ask why a certain sort of artist feels it necessary, to, ...
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