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Kofi Fosu Forson most women play victim and are hounded by men. that was post 90's strain. traditionally women were elegantly pursued by men in the 20's to 40's allure. 50's rock and roll beset the nature of woman as liberated this carried over into the spiritually sexual 60's. 70's disco was hedonistic. 80's art culture and sex brought closure...

Kofi Fosu Forson

what women are now is a wild breed born into circumstance of evolution. most live in regret. some celebrate this post feminist redemption but to a fault all women wonder what if and what could have been...

Biljana Ackovski

You're totally right, I want to go back to the 40's :)))

Kofi Fosu Forson

Pure elegance, charm and class...we need more class...

Biljana Ackovski

Exactly, and a touch of mystery, the feeling that the "object" of love is unattainable, nowadays women are commodities :)

Kofi Fosu Forson

"object of love is unattainable" yes yes yes...

Kofi Fosu Forson

woman as commodity is a thing of power found in politicians, CEOs and gangsters...much of this has trickled down to the common man...

Biljana Ackovski

We have been duped into thinking that we are now free to pick and choose, wrong, women are now literally fighting over men whereas men have become bored with all the accessible women... The old rule should still apply, plunging neckline, cover up your legs or vice versa)))

Kofi Fosu Forson

what indeed is the fascination with boots I never quite understood although perhaps I think of that as a fetish symbol...hmm

Biljana Ackovski

I wasn't thinking boots but yes, fetish it is, especially nowadays...

Kofi Fosu Forson

Love is an articulation it's more than an expression. It's of my thinking that men have women right where they want them.

Biljana Ackovski

Totally agree, and women are I won't say what yet again...

Kofi Fosu Forson

Backwoods erotica and underground pornography were sold on the black market...well now it's translatable on the worldwide internet...

Biljana Ackovski

Now it's part of mass culture, totally acceptable, MTV, the catwalk, high street fashion, everywhere...

Kofi Fosu Forson

I think we struggle with intimacy... it makes us uncomfortable. social networks like FB and MYSP provide us with an exterior that is less human more virtual therefore making us less vulnerable.

Biljana Ackovski

True. Also, at times it seems as though men and women are living parallel lives...

Kofi Fosu Forson
I like sitting with guys at a bar and talking bout women.

Biljana Ackovski

See, that's exactly what I mean, while women sit with women, plotting how to "snare" the next guy, even if he is a total idiot... Whatever happened to partnerships? Euro girls are all very different :)))

Kofi Fosu Forson

The issue here is mating or as Bret Easton Ellis called it The Rules of Attraction. The rock and roll college dormitory behavior permeated the language of association between men and women, frat humor, locker room humor etcetera... that hasn't left us. I find some Euro girls still to be elegant and brilliant but that's just a supposition since don't live in Europe. What do you think of American girls...

Kofi Fosu Forson

I personally think American women are what fundamentally the international world revolves around.

Kofi Fosu Forson

America has it's history and cannot be denied that. The backlash when GWB become president was unfounded. I personally don't think we need OBAMA to rediscover whatever dignity America had. America is a proud country. It's women are blessed and beautiful. I just prefer sitting with a Euro girl drinking red wine and having a conversation about love for hours...haha

Biljana Ackovski

How right you are! Now team that up with the porn industry which seems to rule the world, together with the arms and pharmaceutical industry and see where that leaves us...
I agree with you about American women, although I have a few American friends who are totally different, they're all about new age spirituality, healing etc. I think it has a lot to do with generations as well, depends what role models you had when you were growing up. What role models do girls today have? You have to dig deep to find anything meaningful...

Kofi Fosu Forson

Well yeah this whole thing is about generational warfare.. men and women are dieing getting older and older and like vampires they need to suck the blood of the young. The idea of role models is pointless in this day and age. I honestly feel we are challenged and stimulated enough as a world of consciences and people to muster and savor a life for our selves. A strong family background always helps but in truth we are defenseless in the outside world...caution first, conscience second but after that anything can happen.

Biljana Ackovski

True, floating with no idea where we will end up, old values are now pointless. Sometimes I feel we are at the end of this civilization, have no idea what will ensue...

Kofi Fosu Forson

Technology somehow upholds that sense of loss we feel. what I find brilliant about these modern times is inner turmoil and stress we all experience it but how do we channel it. I find that to be personal with each person. I find that intellect and sex builds a (wo)man and not gamesmanship and control. we are a divisive society in terms of class, race and culture. And I will say it again that love is more than expressed it is articulated. You save yourself a person at a time we help build a world. Thank You Biljana...it's been a pleasure... :)

Biljana Ackovski

Likewise, I thoroughly enjoyed our chat as well :)))

Kofi Fosu Forson

Extremely meaningful and necessary... hope to talk again soon...:)))

Biljana Ackovski

You are a true gentleman Kofi :)

Kofi Fosu Forson

haha...thank you...I blush haha...I have a great father. my mother's brothers are geniuses and I live in New York..The whole world is here Biljana...The whole world is here...you are so kind...thanks again :)))

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Kofi Fosu Forson is the origin of the poseur rooted in 50's Beat or French pop...

Kofi Fosu Forson

The Beatniks were stereotype of what was Jack Kerouac and The Beat Generation. The image in French popular culture of a painter with beret and seemingly fake mustache holding a palette and paintbrush. These are two images reminiscent of the poseur.

Kofi Fosu Forson

80's Neo Expressionism begot the street artist much of which problematically surfaced where American Pop Art would have left off. Andy Warhol's fascination with Basquiat may have proven this. Some critics still consider Basquiat as well as Keith Haring a mockery of what is standardized American Art.

Kofi Fosu Forson

F. Scott Fitzgerald was said to have inspired the so called "yuppie writer" among which was Jay McInerny. As much as the Jazz Age was affected by the quality of music for its time, 1980's pop music was a soundtrack to the lives of the characters depicted in novels such as "Story of My Life" and Bret Easton Ellis' "Less Than Zero."

The I, Me, My:
Self-Defense in Modern Society

Kofi Fosu Forson

Frontier women safeguarded their authority by carrying rifles. This was a premise for what becomes the person and self, prone to the victimization by society as in what lengths one would take to keep the wolves from their door.

An urban setting is replete with as much signifiers present in the mind of a schizophrenic. But in the modern premise for existing not much of it is counter culture. A homogenizing of what is black and white does very little to enhance the brilliance that has insofar created this non-existence.

The Crisps and Bloods are defined by the colors blue and blood (red). As a writing exercise I have spent evenings during which I meditated on colors that is to say purple is a mixture of blue and red. Blue and yellow gives way to green. Red and yellow makes orange. That in a society of primary colors if given the chance certain temperaments and notions of life bring forth an assemblage of culture.

The rendering of philosophy changes in reference to the issue of race and class. A black revolutionary's notion of defense is more or less self-authority along with a stringent philosophy comprised of societal and racial politics. Civil Rights gave way to the furthering of a cause which prepared those within the culture to take matters to their own hands. These were not so much leaders of the civil rights movements but those who chose immediate means and were vocal via literature, print journalism or rallies.

What then calls for defense within a civilized world? Do the writings of Anais Nin and Simone de Beauvoir attempt at fending off the literary chaos and imbalance. And in doing so did they need to ingratiate what was the self along with the greater divide which was a compromising of what is truth, circumstance and art.

To defend one must carry a weapon. Or should they?

The pugilist defends with both boxing gloves positioned in front of his face. Either that or with one arm propped at the side of his head and his shoulders bent inwards. This is known as a stance. A policeman at guard carries a gun. The white gloves of a surgeon are sensitive to his nature. A dominatrix may incorporate a whip in her activities. A blackboard and a chalk are found in most classrooms. These are understood and are associated with certain professions.

What then is the role of a thief with a gun or knife?

Gang warfare is predominantly a means of protecting turf along with it is a certain level of testosterone and braggadocio. Criminals operate under a different mindset. Once having lived alongside the like either in a ghetto, prison or street culture the mind incorporates certain improbabilities not found among those who are outright content and not visualant.

The mind therefore is the greatest form of defense.