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the daily grind of small acts

Reconciliation and retribution. The ability to forgive. How should a victim behave when faced with their torturer? And what are the points on intersection between vengeance and justice?… With World Press Freedom Day, it seems to serve as a promotion … Continue reading

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the good angels gulp and groan

In general, the notion that Heinrich Heine represented a “wound” became common currency in Germany after 1945, reflecting the German wound of the war and the country’s subsequent division; all interpretations have transformed themselves into a cultural problem and a … Continue reading

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SAINT SIMON SAYS: FIND THE FEMALE MESSIAH

In the nineteenth century, when the Saint-Simonians took to mysticism under the leadership of Bathelemy Prosper Enfantin, they began to talk up “the rehabilitation of the flesh” , a principle which inderlay the growing advocacy of free-love in the movement. … Continue reading

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THE INVISIBLE HAND:Who is the Third Who Walks Always Beside You?

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, You cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives … Continue reading

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MARCUSE : POURING SALT ONTO SACCHARINE NOTIONS

Some people call a lie told for a great and good purpose a “noble lie.” Our government engages in a noble lie, according to these people, when it lies to us for our own good. Let us suppose, for the … Continue reading

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NOSTALGIA, MISERY & MEMORY

Its a marked an obvious pattern in Dickens;  a depiction of characters who employ nostalgic remembrance in a way that critiques this mode of selective memory, showing it to be harmful to both the self, who desires to remember only … Continue reading

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ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES

… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading

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PINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''

At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of existing, and backlogged promises to spend, these … Continue reading

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FAMOUS & DANDY LIKE AMOS & ANDY, ABDUL & SAMMY

We learn to like to be the heroes We learn to lie to the brand name negroes We learn to laugh to avoid being angry We learn to kill and learn to go hungry We learn not to feel, for … Continue reading

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JUST WINDOW SHOPPING

Liberalism is often thought to be a panacea for righting  historical wrongs, and using condemnations of past behavior as moral leverage to limit current freedoms for the greater good of the society as a whole. Much of our present thinking … Continue reading

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