Tag Archives: Martin Heidegger

napoleon black magic: roads to moscow

The “hidden hand” gesture, international democracy based on property law, and the coming of an age of reason and enlightenment. A golden road leading to the seven pillars of the gates of wisdom?… The promise of the end of serfdom, … Continue reading

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its all relative: shades of grey morality

Moral relativity. Does it reinforce the racism and stereotypes that so called progressives seek to eradicate; or is a self-defeating loop where groups are defended as pretext within a struggle within more dominant social classes. The idea of accepting racism … Continue reading

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holocaust: shredding the heavenly decree

Was Mahmoud Abbas right in saying the Zionist movement had links with the Nazis before World War II? That is not in question, but the assertion that the Nazis were dancing with joy with the fiddler on the roof over … Continue reading

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holocaust: keep the analysis to yourself

When the Redemption comes and the Messiah arrives, we are supposed to know all the answers. Until then, the where was god debate has no point. There are no theological explanations for what happened, and is practically a disgrace to … 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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rebel yells

The problem with evil, with villainy, is that the subject stretches toward the boundaries of infinity. Our planet may be short of many things but the supply of evil-doers is endless. They are everywhere: from office towers, to government, at … Continue reading

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sleeping in comfort: gracious living

Such a disconnect between the bright, optimistic and shiny marketing image of Ikea and the reality of slave labor production; all those earnest and evolved Swedes, post-Bergman’s, meticulously laying the framework for a do-it-yourself assembly post modern aesthetic of cheap … Continue reading

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the state has no business in the bedrooms

of the nation’s  citizens, unless of course its to go bottom feeding for the lowest common denominator among first time voters. This is a new elan in presidential politics, but whatever the value it demonstrates how the institution of government … Continue reading

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learning from the best

Just to advise that the Nazi version of the death camp, the forced labor camp, did not insidiously arise out of thin air, out of a vacuum. The precedent had already been well established; the mold in large measure a … Continue reading

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IKEA deep ecology….

Coincidence with IKEA in Saudi Arabia? This oh so politically correct company that embraces such a high minded, secular view of nature. The whole corporate projected image seems much like a Heidegger model of hiding the fascism and the pure … Continue reading

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