Tag Archives: Gershom Scholem

hannah and her whispers

A relationship of power and violence and how they are inversely proportional. Or so said Hannah Arendt which could well constitute a pillar in her own inversely proportional posthumous power and the violence that has fed on her words thorugh … Continue reading

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arendt: spooked horse syndrome

Hannah Arendt was certainly not the first person to mediate on the problem and ramifications of thoughtless evil. As opposed to the cunning, conscious and coherent variety. Her reflections of course, were not entirely understood, or else appropriated to serve diverse … Continue reading

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hannah and her surplus enjoyment

It was always playing around the fringes of the “dark times.” Like carrying matches in a coal mine waiting for the canary to sing. Arendt walked into a Jerusalem courtroom disappointed that the mental case in the glass box was … Continue reading

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the real deal is rather unspectacular

Evil is unspectacular and always human, And shares our bed and eats at our own table, And we are introduced to Goodness every day. Even in drawing-rooms among a crowd of faults; he has a name like Billy and is … Continue reading

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very dark: obscure pure bees

Equal right to die…. Hannah Arendt termed it an “overpowering reality” that seems to be inherent in totalitarian systems in which the problem of evil could be analyzed but would remain elusive, a fugitive that escaped the most ardent manhunt … Continue reading

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lucretius:agonizing doubts of logic and reason

The clash of major and minor keys is heard throughout his poem, The Nature of Things; again and again, in a passage that opens with serene confidence in Epicurean logic and the liberating power of the intellect , Lucretius will … Continue reading

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agitated realms beyond melancholy

The long arc of hereticism. Modernism and baggage of hereticism it bring with it, the deep sack of neuroses festering sometimes into the outbreaks of pathology and brilliance often equally and simultaneously, is today, a sort  of anguished repudiation; reactions … Continue reading

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bang up business: harvesting the sheep

What if the messiah came? In the blink of an eyes as they say. The Holy Temple in Jerusalem will be rebuilt and Israel will live free among the nations, and will have no need to defend herself; War will … Continue reading

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the little black bloc book

They don’t make them like they used to. The basic premise being the natural instinct for people is to cooperate, and make peace meaning we don’t need the state, the government, the judiciary, the police, and the military. Its a … Continue reading

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no redemption left behind

It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. And if I can add to Dickens, it was the end of times. The end of all times. The Peace Train is coming. Even Dickens was not immune … Continue reading

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