Smart Sensuality Goddess Worship Inspires Pragmatic Pacifism

It seems almost sacriligious mixing high fashion and a war memorial, except that the two worlds intersect here at Anne of Carversville.

Smart Sensuality women don’t run from the horrors of global poverty and the need for environmental action.

Increasingly, women cannot run from war either.  American and British women are serving in Afghanistan. Hundreds of NGO and UN aids — women from all nations —  are trying desperately to help people caught in the ravages of war and violence on the ground, pawns in a global chess game.

Femininity and female values are associated with hope by Cultural Creatives.  

Moderns take a more mechanistic view of global events. Theirs is a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil world but the saints are marching in. Traditionals are ideology and values-driven, and I fear the ones who are left are increasingly fundamentalist and deeply conservative in their thinking.

Progressive Traditonals like Howard Buffett and David Brooks have evolved to Cultural Creatives status.

Fashion, sex, religion and politics all converge at Anne of Carvesville. I’ve never been a hear-no-evil, see-no-evil kind of person.

This was the glory of the Beatles, especially John and George, who managed to mix sex, religion and politics very well. I never thought of John and George them as fashionistas, even if they did inspire a global style movement. Perhaps I should reconsider.

I have moments when reality floods over me in waves. One moment the Beatles have co-opted my brain, then a long-lost yellow Fiat  convertible and a working class guy reduce me to tears. Maybe tomorrow.

From a design perspective, we don’t see religion in modern architectural design, although Prada touched on this subject. All the glass and steel is a bit souless for me. Looking at this Flickr photo, modern chrome and steel architecture does share a point-of-design view with religion.

Truthfully, this is why people become passionate about curves.

Don’t get me wrong. I know the Taliban blew up irreplaceable Buddhas, without a skyscraper in sight. America had nothing to do with that little catastrophe, because buddhas are not on our bandwidth. But you must admit that Dree Hemingway, photographed by Inez & Vinoodh, softens the joints of Modern, iron-willed architecture. 

Smart Sensuality goddesses want their moment in the spotlight. Trust me … we have a lot to say. Is there such a thing as a pragmatic pacifist?  Anne