[TheForge] bad thread -ersatz and back to thread

[lee robbins]

Peter Hirst wrote:

but has a huge area of overlap with much of what
happened in Nazi
 Germany.

But the essence of what they have in common is still
at the heart of
 what 
gos on here today:  a power and money grab hiding
behind a phoney, 
manufactured threat fuel by fear and cowardice.

Peter-
 i was just reacting to the work of adolph being no
different than our japanese roundup, in matters of
degree. Yes 1984 has arrrived.

In our nation we have a population that is happy to
live with the ersatz, the artificial accepted as real
and the real disappears. Those who cling to the real
are labeled elitists. THey are the ones who buy
hand-forged

About 7 dollar kerosene at lowes?  Get a gas can and
you can drop it to a cheap 5 dollars a gallon, even
less if you get it for home heating and avoid the
taxes. When i was in Kumamoto, japan at Mitsu's
(takamitsu toshinobu) studio, he has taught at
Campbell Folk, he forged iron using kerosene. no forge
welding though. In the '90's it was a cheaper
alternative to propane. 

Lee