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dancing with phantoms
…ghost dance and cargo cult…In times of stress look for the prophets of an earthly paradise: Handsome Lake of Mohammed, Lenin or the Teacher of Righteousness. America is always ready willing and able for any millennial cult that presents itself… … Continue reading
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Tagged Cargo Cults, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Father Groppi, John Cage, Kenneth Knowlton, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Malcolm X Black Muslims, Martin Luther, Neil Krug, Noam Chomsky, Peter Zinovieff, Pontiac Indian Chief, Slavoj Zizek, Umberto Eco
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tinkling the ivory: recital in the seraglio
Travel hint: Don’t mock Islamic beliefs about Paradise. Not even a John Milton connection about Paradise Lost. There are laws in Paradise, and its no place some some funky anarchist. Screw the Enlightenment. More Heidegger and less Voltaire. Although in … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet III Tulip Era, Auguste Roubille, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, Fazil Say, Fazil Say pianist, Franz Werfel, Gentile Bellini, Madame Girardin wife of French ambassador, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Mimar Sinan University, Norman Finkelstein, Omar Khayyam, orhan pamuk, Rambam, Slavoj Zizek, Sylvester Stallone, Tariq Ramadan, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam, Voltaire The Enlightenment
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rage against the trader
The origin may be an ancient one, that idea, peculiar to many, which asserted that making business is dirty business. Money is ugly. It appears to be a Medieval concept and a Greek and Roman notion that looked negatively upon … Continue reading
this poor man cries out but who is listening
The God game. The politics of God. Santorum hs the potential to be a dangerous demagogue, but the left critique with its mixing of theology, religion and class economics is almost as nausea inducing by positioning the voice of god … Continue reading
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Tagged abel meeropol, Billie Holiday, Billie Holiday Strange Fruit, Chris Hedges, Christopher Hitchens, cornel west, Erich Fromm, James Cone, james h. cone, Larry Rivers, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Richard Dawkins, Rick Salutin, rick santorum, robert wyatt, robert wyatt strange fruit, Sam Harris
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finding their way back to the new-old world
At some point the sublimity of spirituality becomes corrupted, infected and toxified with religious hallucinations embedded with supersitition and fantastic images from the recesses of the mind. An addiction to the subjective roots of ostensibly objective problems. James Ensor could … Continue reading
death wish: the unknown unknowns
Death is meaningless. At least when compared to the well-being of the collective. Is war remembrance just part of the death cult; just something more to remember, to save, what has been failed, and failed miserably? All these tombs of … Continue reading
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Tagged amy waldman, anselm kiefer, Chris Hedges, don delillo, giles tremlett, Hannah Arendt, Jacques Derrida, jilly cooper, julian glover guardian, memorial day, michael nass, Rick Salutin, robin gibb bee gees, sir edwin lutyens, tomb of the unknown soldier, war memorials
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occupy the authentic
Its a complete distortion and perversion of some very profound thinking by the likes of Viktor Frankl and his will to meaning. The experiences of a holocaust death camp survivor filtered through the maze of pop culture into a reified … Continue reading
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Tagged 10cc, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, Guy Debord, Henry Adams, John Sloan, laura ingalls wilder, Lionel Trilling, Michael Moore, Michael Pollan, mike moffatt, miles orvell, Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, stephen crane, susan pinker, Thorstein Veblen, Viktor Frankl, Walt Whitman
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