Vive les autoroutes allemandes ! Gratuites, de nombreuses sections sans limitation de vitesse et pas de radars fixes. On peut conduire, les allemands roulent à droite et respectent les limitations….le rêve de l’automobiliste français 😂
Le Crépuscule des dieux au Festspielhaus se termine dans la douleur pour l’équipe IA. Une pensée pour ce Mr de 80 ans venant des USA pour la seule et unique fois à Bayreuth et qui ne pensait pas voir une représentation concertante agrémentée d’ une simple projection d’images
Le rideau de la Walkyrie est à l’image de l’IA utilisée en lieu et place d’une mise en scène : triste et moche. L’absence d’émotion transmise par les chanteurs couverts par des projections d’images folles, un orchestre de grande qualité mais sans relief 😩
Festspielhaus Bayreuth la seule chose à retenir du 150ème anniversaire de la tétralogie wagnérienne est cette fanfare ! Pas de mise en scène pour cet Or du Rhin, juste un fondu d’images permanent sans intérêt et pas de jeu d’acteur. Un bon disque c’est mieux !😩
Fanfare appelant les festivaliers à la 1ère représentation du 150eme anniversaire du Ring. Aujourd’hui l’Or du Rhin. Et 1ère mise en scène réalisée par l’IA…voyons 🤷♀️
Menhir des droits de l’homme: hommage au + de 600 hommes qui périrent dans le naufrage du vaisseau "Les Droits de l'Homme" en janvier 1797, après une lutte acharnée contre deux vaisseaux anglais. Le Major Pipon, prisonnier sur le vaisseau survivants du naufrage, le fit graver.
In 458 BC, Rome was on the brink of collapse.
An invading army had trapped the Roman consul and his legion in a mountain pass. Panic spread through the city. The Senate did the only thing they could think of:
They sent messengers to find a 60-year-old farmer plowing his field.
His name was Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. He had once been a senator, then lost his fortune paying his son's bail. Now he worked his own four-acre plot just to feed his family.
When the Senate's envoys arrived, they found him sweating behind a plow. They asked him to put on his toga so they could deliver an official message.
The message: Rome was making him dictator. Absolute power. Total command of the army. No checks. No oversight. No term limit.
He accepted.
Within 16 days, Cincinnatus had raised an army, marched out, surrounded the enemy, and forced their surrender. The republic was saved.
He had legal authority to rule for six months. He could have stayed. He could have expanded his power. He could have done what every other ruler in human history did when handed unlimited control.
Instead, he resigned on day 16.
He took off the toga, walked back to his farm, and finished plowing the field he'd left half-done.
Twenty years later, when Rome faced another crisis, they called him back. He was 80 years old. He took command, crushed the conspiracy, and resigned again, this time after just 21 days.
He died poor. On his farm.
2,200 years later, when George Washington was offered a kingship after winning the American Revolution, he refused and went home to Mount Vernon. The reason he was hailed as "the American Cincinnatus" is because Europeans literally could not believe a man who had won would willingly give up power.
King George III, on hearing Washington would resign rather than rule, said: "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."
The lesson isn't that Cincinnatus was humble.
The lesson is that for most of human history, the people most qualified to lead were the ones who didn't want to. And the moment a society starts rewarding those who chase power instead of those who flee from it is the moment the republic begins to die.
Cincinnati, Ohio is named after him.
Most people who live there have no idea why.
The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody flashmob you will ever see!!
With 30 musicians and singers in the streets of Paris 😍
Lead singer: @mickeycallisto
Lead guitar: Olly Pearson
Pop choir: DDKN sisters, @sone_sings and @colinesicre
Counter-tenor solo: @michaelkonesaki