{"id":22908,"date":"2021-02-15T19:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T03:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/?p=22908"},"modified":"2021-04-01T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:31:29","slug":"ode-to-carnival-past-and-future-sadly-not-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/ode-to-carnival-past-and-future-sadly-not-present\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Carnival Past and Future, Sadly Not Present."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22907\" style=\"width: 850px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22907\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Carnival.jpg\" alt=\"dancers preparing for a carnival parade, on Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain\" width=\"850\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Carnival.jpg 850w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Carnival-600x453.jpg 600w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Carnival-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Carnival-768x580.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Patiently awaiting their next carnival parade, on Tenerife, in Spain\u2019s Canary Islands.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF SKIP KALTENHEUSER.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Are\u00a0you mourning this year\u2019s lack of Carnival\u2019s spiritual cleanse, its satirical sorting of\u00a0society\u2019s woes to give us perspective? I am. And so I retreat now to past frolics. It\u2019s hard to overstate how rotten the past year has been, in so many ways, or the dim prospects it left us, as we await whatever next escapes Pandora\u2019s Box. The shakeups underpinned by carnivals around the world, with their myriad styles and cultural melting pot histories, would be damn welcome now. But as they\u2019d be world class\u00a0superspreaders, we must make do with echos, such as New Orleans refugees in my DC neighborhood paying homage by decorating their houses, and more robust statements throughout homes in <a href=\"http:\/\/travelingboy.com\/archive-travel-fyllis-new_orleans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans<\/a>, where there\u2019s no shortage of Mardi Gras artifacts and artisans.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a past take that imparts a bit on the roots of <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/america-brace-global-thrashing-carnival-speaks-truth-power\/\">Carnival<\/a>, and reprises a musing on the potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/washington-dc-americas-monumental-city\/\">Washington, DC<\/a> as a target-rich Carnival city. It ricochets off the 2012 election, which then seemed the heights of improbable political folly. Little did I know it was merely bedrock for the jaw-droppers to come. I thought of taking a stab at what an imaginary Washington Carnival would look like this year. My circuits quickly overloaded. But you can put your imagination to work. The 800-pound orange gorilla in the room, and his gang of grifters, presents a smorgasbord of choices. How to satirize a President so beyond the pale he ought to present a plausible Covid brain-fog defense? Picture him in a medieval plague mask. Or an executioner\u2019s hood. Serial killers are where you find them. The real costs of breaking down government oversight in every way possible at the command of looney Koch-minded operatives. And the tragedy-tinged grand finale of the stop-the-steal con. Challenging, but I guarantee that when they are given the opportunity, Carnival satirists around the world will be skinning America alive, so perhaps we dodged a hail of Carnival bullets. The Biden Administration, already hamstringing itself by whittling down promised $2,000 relief\/stimulus checks, looks ready to line up new themes. Ah, Joe. Designated OMB hitter Neera Tanden, a gift of the Clintons that keeps on giving, so deep in so many big-money pockets, emblematic of an influx of people into Washington willing to do anything, advocate anything, for money. And there is so much money. So much of it dark and well-laundered. The bundlers lining up at the revolving door. Legions of them as eager as Eric Holder to profitably insulate Wall Street from consequences as it sets the country up for another fall. Check out the art of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyohanian.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Ohanian<\/a>, for a wealth of float concepts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22921\" style=\"width: 547px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22921\" src=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Basel-Carnival.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"547\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Basel-Carnival.jpg 547w, https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Basel-Carnival-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 547px) 100vw, 547px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">The eye-teeth have it! A jury of our peers, in the traditional phallic nose masks of Basel, Switzerland.<\/span> <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">PHOTO COURTESY OF SKIP KALTENHEUSER.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everything old is new again. Washington\u2019s potential never runs dry. Tens of millions in dark\u00a0money promoting Supreme Court Justices like\u00a0Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, as if in a John Grisham plot. The collapsing pillars of media narratives that Putin dictates the results of multi-billion dollar elections. Relax, Putin remains a prime target as an underwear poisoner. Media scampering on to the QAnon freak show. And in Congress! Fascist Proud Boys as the Lost Boys. Guns, guns and guns. Missing foreign influence? Netanyahu and the Saudis, anyone? The world\u2019s richest union buster unleashing his corporate opinion stylists on progressives like Bernie, undermining Medicare-for-All, even as the pandemic loomed.\u00a0<em>How will they pay for it?<\/em> should be their epitaphs. The calculated media stovepipes thrashing about without their profitable Donald, the orange-hued goose who laid their golden eggs. The Kafkaesque plight of Julian Assange reaping the whirlwind after daring to expose the horrors of forever wars. And the tandem future of investigative journalism. National intelligence alumni morphing into cable media talking heads with undisclosed clients. Monopolies as far as the eye can see. Political correctness on crack. <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-journalistic-tattletale-and-censorship\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In newsrooms!<\/a> The DNC and the <a href=\"https:\/\/greenwald.substack.com\/p\/the-lincoln-project-facing-multiple\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Project<\/a>, bipartisan grifters together again. Mitch and Chuck. Nancy as a vendor \u2014 ice cream cake for the masses! Renegade cops as unaccountable Amokiteers. Compounding climate catastrophes. Oh, and our ham-handed handling of wild and free-roaming microbes. Bellwethers warning of other microbes to come knocking. So much to cleanse from our souls. Let your imaginations wonder, what Carnival might gift us when our Carnival world is finally released from pandemic hibernation. Let\u2019s hope America can take a joke, because Carnival will be coming for us.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/author\/skip\/\">Skip Kaltenheuser<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/carnival-beckons-a-carnival-musing-for-2013\/\"><em><strong>Carnival Beckons: A Carnival Musing for 2013<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you mourning this year\u2019s lack of Carnival\u2019s spiritual cleanse, its satirical sorting of society\u2019s woes to give us perspective? I am. And so I retreat now to past frolics. It\u2019s hard to overstate how rotten the past year has been, in so many ways, or the dim prospects it left us, as we await whatever next escapes Pandora\u2019s Box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":22907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[4633,808,3914,129,4634,4635,866,1778],"class_list":["post-22908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-carnival","tag-nancy-ohanian","tag-politics","tag-putin","tag-satire","tag-trump","tag-washington-d-c"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ode to Carnival Past and Future, Sadly Not Present. - Traveling Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/ode-to-carnival-past-and-future-sadly-not-present\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ode to Carnival Past and Future, Sadly Not Present. - Traveling Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Are you mourning this year\u2019s lack of Carnival\u2019s spiritual cleanse, its satirical sorting of society\u2019s woes to give us perspective? 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