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WWI: spirit of violence and hysteria
The malaise of the First World War. Even staunch humanists like Thomas Mann were caught up in the jingoistic fever, the pomp and ritual of nihilism. In 1914 he asked, “Is not war a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope?” … Continue reading
war as ideal philosophical nature
Even more disastrous is to reverse Clausewitz’s principle and allow military considerations to dominate national policy. The “absurdity” in Clausewitz’s view, has been perpetuated more often by Clausewitz’s own countrymen than by anyone else. In 1914, the Schlieffen Plan called … Continue reading
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Tagged Accrington Pals, Billy Bishop Goes to War, Clausewitz, Clausewitz On War, Eric Peterson, Erich Maria Remarque, John Gray actor, kirsten cale, Lew Ayres, Ludendorff WWI, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Howard, Schlieffen Plan
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WEIMAR ARCADE: Shoot the Hypnotist First
Or is the hypnotist merely the decoy, the puppet of even greater evil? The Weimar resemblance? Its nervous, alienated, and often brilliant culture can seem uncomfortably like our own. But, is the sickness that killed the German Republic of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertram M. Gross, Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Dr. Robert Blackburn, Ed Driscoll, Eric D. Weitz, Erich Maria Remarque, John Heartfield, Julien Benda, Kurt Weill, Marianne Faithfull, Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Michael Brenner, Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Dix, Peter Rex Valentine, Thomas Mann
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LOST BERLIN:BABYLON & BOOGIE AT THE BRANDENBURG GATE
A macabre gaiety pervaded Berlin like an intoxicating smog. There was no shortageof drink, drugs, or beautiful women. “There are two kinds of places,” wrote a contemporary of Bertolt Brecht, ” those one talks about, and those one doesn’t talk … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Berber, Bertolt Brecht, Dave Riley, Dita Von Teese, Duke Ellington, Erich Maria Remarque, Fassbinder, George Grosz, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jason Lutes, Joel Dorn, John Fuegi, Josephine Baker, Katherine Farmar, Kurt Weill, Leni Riefenstahl, Liza Minelli, Luigi Bazini, Marlene Dietrich, Mel Gordon, Nina Hagen, Robert J. Sternberg, Rosa Luxemburg, Sander L. Gilman, Scott J. Thompson, Shinan Govani, Solomon Asch, Stephen Lemons, Thomas Mann, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Benjamin, Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Von Eckardt
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THE POETS DOWN HERE DON'T WRITE NOTHING AT ALL
The attitude was ”better a horrible ending than a horror without end”. There had been peace in the world for too long. From Berlin, in the spring of 1914, Colonel House wrote to Woodrow Wilson, ”the whole of Germany is … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Bertrand Russell, Bruce Springsteen, Carlo Carra, Charles Peguy, Erich Maria Remarque, Franz Kafka, Franz Werfel, Freud, henri Bergson, Italian Futurists, Martin Buber, Nietzsche, Otto Dix, Parkinson's Law, Rupert Brooke, Severini, The Great War, Umberto Boccioni, Woodrow Wilson, WWI. World War One, XTC
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