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Tag Archives: Peter Bergson
nature over intellect
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect. The human comedy where hedonism replaces heroism. Tragic heroes die for what is nobler in the mind, comic heroes live for what is livelier in the flesh. The tragic … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Boccaccio Decameron, Charles Dibdin, Christopher Fry, G. Wappers paintings, Gaius Petronius, henri Bergson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Bergson, Petronius Satyricon, Roberto Benigni, Saint Thomas Aquinas, To Rome With Love 2012, Woody Allen
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everything must go
That entire cultures could be formed on the basis of hated, or villainization seems almost too absurd to be possible. As the Arab Spring revealed, the whole phony nature of restricting civil rights, outright repression was based on the phony … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged art chantry, Danny Simon Knesset, Francis Galton, Golda Meir, Israel Shamir, john carpenter director, Kach Party, kahanism, Martin Heidegger, Mk Anastassia Michaeli, MK Danny Danon, Nissim Zeev, Norman Finkelstein, Nuremberg Laws, Peter Bergson, Rabbi Meir Kahane, Richard Millett, Social Darwinism, Stanley Fischer, Stanley Milgram, Thorstein Veblen
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they want the whole enchilda
Kahanism. Its an ideology that won’t go away. Part of the reason is the complicity of the far left, the establishment song and dance men like Gideon Levy promote a brand of Israeli jew at odds with what has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Isaac Kook, David Rubinger, Gideon Levy Haaretz, gilad shalit, Hana Shalbi, Hans Memling, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meir Indor, meir kahane, MK Benny Alon, MK Danny Danon, MK Michael Ben Ari, Noam Federman, Peter Bergson, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Yariv Oppenheimer
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momentary improvisation
What strikes you is how competitive they were. The bravado and the macho. The guy to nail the cover photo. Which meant a willingness to take risks. That which is nominally referred to as courage, was really pushing the boundaries … Continue reading
the banality of engagement: blame the victims
There is something about Hannah. For some reason Hannah Arendt has been a post-modern magnet for for ant-Jewism, anti-Semitism, and anti-Israel sentiments all nicely couched in the language of human rights, respect, and all manner of motherhood statements that masks … Continue reading
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Tagged Amos Elon, avigail sperber, Ben Hecht, bernard saffran, Deborah Lipstadt, Edouard Manet, eichmann trial, Gideon Hausner, Hannah Arendt, hollerith machine nazis, jabotinsky, karl jaspers, leo baeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Heidegger, Max Horkheimer, Max Lerner, netalie braun, Peter Bergson, Raul Hilberg, tony judt, Walter Benjamin
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