A cell at the Tuol Sleng prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Noam Chomsky and like minded "intellectuals" would explain the torture and murder that took place here by rambling about "America's role" in producing this Marxist state gulag. Such con-artists of socialist hypocrisy will never acknowledge the consistent role of socialist utopian ideology in feeding the death tolls of countries around the world. The Khmer Rouge leadership where intellectual elitists, educated in France and fully committed to the Marxist / Maoist "ideal" of the perfect "egalitarian" society.

Throughout human history, envy (of power and success) and the obsession to impose control over human nature have killed far more people than "greed."

Take your "revolution" and shove it.

If I love big brother and the party maybe they'll let me continue to smile. (A propaganda poster in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.

Self-loathing in the fantasy kingdom of spoiled brats.

Tea House Yard (the Forbidden City, Beijing, China).

Bifurcation and beauty (cherry blossoms in Nagaoka, Japan).

Pastel Door (Bangkok, Thailand).

Japanese Woodblock Print (from my personal collection).

Holiday Evening in Downtown Nagaoka, Japan.

The Chaotic Template (drawing).

Fountain (drawing)

Post Holiday Posting...

Hi. I'm back from a festive holiday frolic in Pennsylvania, New York City, and Washington D.C. (which was extremely impressive).

For all intents and purposes, my Promethean Antagonist site will be rather dormant from now on (I may occasionally make refinements to current essays and links and perhaps put up an essay or two that were previously unposted).

I will continue to make weekly posting to this site -- Promethean Visions -- and will continue to add to my observations (and other's quotations) at my Promethean Observer site.

I'm still quite interested in politics and still thoroughly favor the minimal state and maximum autonomy for the individual, but the arts are a more pleasant passion and one is less likely to be attacked, scorned, or misinterpreted for their aesthetic preferences.

Long live dynamic free society and the creative expression of individuals unbridled by the agenda of self-serving collectivist control freaks.

-- C.G.

John Martin's mezzotint engraving, "Belshazzar's Feast." Although excessive, the work is a splendid example of 19th century Romantic print artistry.

The fragile echo. (Tissue closeup in harsh light).

Post Modernist Nightmare -- a doodle

Greed and new suites are bad...