Yozzer66

Introducing Yozzer66

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This user has anacademic degreein ModernHistory&Political Science.

This user was a post-graduate student atKeele University.

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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - English writer & socialist,H. G. Wells

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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - Anglo-Irish dramatist & socialist,George Bernard Shaw

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This user is aLiberal Christian.

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"Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness

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- French socialist, feminist & writer,Simone de Beauvoir

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"Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the world, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem." - English poet, artist, engraver, and visionary,William Blake

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This user identifies as aMarxian Humanist.

"We can not go beyond Marxism because we have not gone beyond the circumstances which engendered it.

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- French philosopher, author & Marxian humanist,Jean-Paul Sartre

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This user lovesPopular musicwith theexceptionof mostJazz,Heavy metal music,DiscoandElectronica

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This user enjoysCountry Music,especiallyHank WilliamsandJohnny Cash.

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On Wikipedia and elsewhere, the celebral output ofYozzer66is straddled by two different personas:

The Odious Oracle,a self-appointed arbitrator of good taste in music, film, books and the art of football.
The Red Ramrod,a liberal Christian, a Marxist humanist and an 'organic intellectual' continually politically engaged but striving to remain reflective at the same time.

For current projects see:

The Cerebral Universe ofYozzer66:

Popular Music From 1954

Home to Presley, Cash, Orbison, Perkins & Lewis

(a) The Odious Oracle's Fav Musical Styles 1954 - 74:

(i) Rockabily
(ii) Girl Groups
(iii) Folk Revival
(iv) Southern Soul
(v) The British Invasion
(vi) Folk Rock
(vii) Psychedelic Rock
(viii) Country Rock
(ix) Singer Songwriter
(x) Glam Rock

(b) The Odious Oracle's Fav Musical Styles 1975 - 95

(i) British Pub Rock
(ii) Punk & New Wave
(iii) Post-Punk
(iv) Ska Revival
(v) Indie Rock / Pop
(vi) Alternative Rock
(vii) Alternative Rap & Trip Hop
(viii) Alternative Country Rock
(ix) Neo-Psychedelia
(x) Brit Pop

Cinema

(a) Film Noir
(b) Alfred Hitchcock
(c) British Cinema 1940 - 65:

(i) Key Directors - David Lean, Carol Reed, Michael Powell. (ii) Key Genres - Ealing Comedy, Hammer Horror, New Wave

(d) Contemporary Cinema

European Art, Literature & Classical Music

Fav Music (other than Mozart & Beethoven):

(i) Baroque (esp. Handel & Bach) (ii) National (esp. Dvorak & Bartok)

Fav Literature (other than Austen & Dickens):

(i) Romantic Poets (esp. Blake & Shelley) (ii) Russian Realism (esp. Dostoyevsky & Tolstoy)

Fav Art (other than Turner & Monet)

(i) Post-Impressionism (esp. Cezanne & Van Gogh) (ii) Fauvism (esp. Matisse & Derain)

Religion & Philosophy

Antonio Gramsci

(a) Pre-Enlightenment Christian Radicalism:

(i) The Apostle Paul (ii) Joachim of Fiore (iii) Fra. Dolcino (Franciscan) (iv) John Ziska (Taborite) (v) Muntzer (Anabaptist) (vi) Winstanley (Digger)

(b) Protestant Theology

(i) Arminianism (ii) English Dissenters (iii) The Seekers - 'Free Christians' - Quakers & Unitarians (iv) General Baptists - Baptist New Connexion - Baptist Union (v) Methodist Lay Revivalist Movements esp. the Primitives and the Independent Methodist Connexion

(c) Post-Hegalian Radicalism (1):

(i) Existentialism (ii) Christan Existentialism (iii) Marxist Existentialism

(d) Post-Hegalian Radicalism (2):

(i) Marxism (ii) Marxian Humanism (iii) Liberation Theology

(e) Freudianism
(f) Ecologism

Public Policy

(a) Environment & Public Transport
(b) Social Housing
(c) State Education
(d) Mental Health
(e) Corporate Responsibility & Employment Policy
(f) Co-operatives & the Social Economy
(g) Fair Trade & World Development
(h) Animal Welfare

Industrial Relations

Marxists in academic IR (UK): Victor L. Allen, Richard Hyman, & John E. Kelly.

History & Politics

(a) The Historical Jesus
(b) Christian Political Radicals & the European Reformation
(c) Marxist Historians
(d) The Rise of Capitalism, Nationalism & their contradictions
(e) British Imperialism & Decolonisation
(f) European Labour Movements & Socialism
(g) Fascism, Resistance & WWII
(h) Revolution, Dissident Marxism & Comparative Communism

Local History

West Derby (hundred) of Lancashire:

Liverpool:Grandparents and parents birthplace.
Billinge:My birthplace.
Ashton-in-Makerfield:My pre-school years.
St Helens:My father's workplace for 30+ years.
Huyton:My formative years.
Skelmersdale:Nearest town to the prison of my adolescence (Parbold)
Burscough:Next nearest town.
Ormskirk:Secondary school

Central & Northern Potteries, North Staffordshire:

Hanley:My first and second workplaces after graduating.
Northwood:The first home of my own.
Burslem:My first football season ticket (Port Vale F.C.)
Tunstall:My wife and stepdaughter's home before we got together.
Sneyd Green:Our family home.
Smallthorne:The location of my son's primary school and my pub quiz team (Green Star Lions, North Staffs Sunday League Div. 1).

Football

Liverpool Pier Head

Local Loyalties:

(i)Everton F.C.(Est. 1878) Goodison Park, Liverpool
(ii)Tranmere Rovers F.C.(Est. 1884) Prenton Park, Birkenhead
(iii)Port Vale F.C.(Est. 1876) Vale Park, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent
(iv)Burscough F.C.(Est. 1946) Victoria Park, Burscough, Lancs
(v)Prescot Cables F.C.(Est. 1884) Valerie Park, Prescot, Merseyside

Budapest

(vi)Skelmersdale United F.C.(Est. 1882) A.T. Stadium, Skelmersdale, Lancs

My Post-War Footballing Artists:
(i)The Magical Magyars(early - mid 1950s) esp. Jozsef Bozsik (Right Half) of Budapesti Honved.
(ii)The Czechoslovakian side(early 1960s) esp. Josef Maspust (Left Half) of Dukla Praha.
(iii)The 'Total Football' Dutch(the 1970s) esp. Johan Cruyff (Centre Forward) of Ajax Amsterdam.

Travel

Prague

Fav Destinations abroad:

Czech Republic
Hungary
Netherlands
Switzerland