Tag Archives: Howard Zinn

loose lips sink ships: uncertainty principal

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

As Clausewitz postulated, war is simply a means for a pre-determined purpose. A continuation of policy which implies a rather solid and usually sordid link between politics and war. There have been newer theories, which may actually be clever repackaging … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albert Einstein, Alexander Cockburn, Andres Serrano, Andy Warhol, bill lewis art, Carl von Clausewitz, Howard Zinn, Julian Assange, kirsten cale, martin van creveld, Noam Chomsky, Norman Rockwell, pearl harbor, pearl harbor anniversary, pearl harbor attack, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, thomas lacquer | Leave a comment

narratives of the nameless: remember to forget

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Dave

Constantly changing traditions and a constantly changing confrontation and relationship with death. Does remembrance amount to a merely symbolic gesture of observing a few moments silence,laying a wreath at these tombs of the nameless, which is actually a kind of … Continue reading →

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I’d rather be a weed

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Dave

It can be plausibly argued that violence does cause thinking. If peace was predominant, there would never be much occasion for thoughtful reflection. So, thinking is bound to violence, and violence seems the janus-faced side of civilization. And, the trick … Continue reading →

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getting their hands on the whip

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Art

Dystopia Uber Alles. Newspeak: a perfect language. Its a world where those who wish to retrieve their freedom are subjected to humiliation, loss of identity, and in the last resort, pain. “We shall meet in the place where there is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged c.k. ogden, colin powell, fareed zakaria, George Orwell, George Soros, Herbert Marcuse, Howard Zinn, james burnham, Pablo Picasso | Leave a comment

distorting the tragic flaws

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Dave

Otto Dix has been said to be primarily a critic of capitalism, and secondly an artist who expressed this view through painting. Although its questionable, and even debatable whether the classic capitalism of the industrial era still exists; its underlying … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Barbara Sukowa, Carl Jung, Devin Z. Shaw, Edward Bernays, Edward D. Bernays, Guy Debord, Howard Zinn, Jeff Koons, Josef von Sternberg, Lucy Lippard, Mark Vallen, Martin Knelman, Max Beckmann, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Roger Scruton, Steve Jacobson, Walter Benjamin, Walter Lippmann, Werner Fassbinder | Leave a comment

what is and what it seems may be: manufacturing contentment?

Posted on February 9, 2011 by Dave

Was he really the connoisseur who by accident sleepwalked into history? William James, the nineteenth-century psychologist wrote that “the greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.” In … Continue reading →

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Presidential state of mind: automatic pilot

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Dave

“You Ronald Reagan?” Its an old debate: whether Ronald Reagan’s onset of Alzheimer disease occurred while he was in office. according to son Ron, the President became mentally impaired by the disease and the end of his first term in … Continue reading →

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FOUR INDIAN MAGI: PAINTING THE NOBLE SAVAGE MYTH

Posted on August 6, 2010 by Dave

“You know that these two nations are at war over a few acres of snow near Canada, and that they are spending on this little war more than all of Canada is worth.” ( Voltaire,Candide) “A few acres of snow” … Continue reading →

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BOMB SQUAD: IDEOLOGICAL DETONATION ON A CONVERGING PATH

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Dave

”As anarchist and convicted terrorist Emile Henry put it (quite ironically, in light of the argument of this paper) on the way to the guillotine, Beware of believing anarchy to be a dogma, a doctrine above question or debate, to be venerated by … Continue reading →

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THEATRE OF THE BLACK FARCE: FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Dave

”Are we who live in the present doomed never to experience autonomy, never to stand for one moment on a bit of land ruled only by freedom? Are we reduced either to nostalgia for the past or nostalgia for the … Continue reading →