Man's Inhumanity to Man

Norman Mailer jailed after stabbing his wife, Adele Morales, at party 

Don’t be offended the next time you're invited to an art opening or publication party and the artist or writer who has invited you refuses to acknowledge your presence after repeated fly-bys-- to the position where they're holding court. After finding yourself roundly ignored you may in a form of reality testing even go back for more only to experience the pangs not only of rejection but the whole obliteration, not for the first time, of your humanity. Art openings are not places to achieve validation and being snubbed in Chelsea or even in some modest gallery on Orchard Street is considered a form of politesse. Yes in the reverse system of etiquette that characterizes the work of so-called culture, being snubbed shows you are someone. The same attraction repulsion syndrome applies at cocktail parties or singles bars where one is looking for love, but it's less blatant ie if a girl or boy takes a shining to you, they're likely to let you know they would be only too happy to make you a strange bed fellow or even stranger fellow traveler. Such are the vicissitudes of social intercourse in these troubled times. The world may be going to hell in a hand basket, yet there still are plenty of venues where you will be able to experience man’s inhumanity to man before you find yourself playing to a darkened house.

listen to "It's a Man's Man's Man's World" by James Brown and Luciano Pavarotti

and read "An Incident of Defenestration" by Francis Levy, Vol. 1 Brooklyn