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complicity in discourtesy
In his seminal work “Obedience to Authority” published in 1974, Stanley Milgram addressed this human capacity to abide passively and without protest in the face of heinous cruelty and blatant deception. Crucially, Milgram wrote: “There is always some element of … Continue reading
vienna: codes unknown
Slavoj Zizek once said the fundamental principle of Freudian psychoanalysis, that of the “discord between the logic of the psychic apparatus and the demands of reality”; Stanley Milgram once termed the area formed between Budapest, Prague and Vienna, the Golden … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Habsburg Empire, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maria Theresa of Austria, Martin van Meytens, Michael Haneke, Slavoj Zizek, Stanley Milgram, Wilhelm Reich
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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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the last train in vain
from Zinn Education Project: On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began when Nazi forces attempted to clear out the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to send them to concentration camps. The Germans were met … Continue reading
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Tagged Amona expulsion, Donald Fagen, Franz Kafka, gush katif, Howard Zinn, John Hersey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, MK Michael Ben Ari, Peter Green blues, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Reverand Martin Niemoller, Stanley Milgram, Zinn Education Project
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the great explainer
How is it possible that a Nobel prize winning physicist Richard Feynman is declared by the American army to be mentally unfit for military duty while an out-and-out mental case like Adolf Eichmann is judged “normal” by six Israeli psychiatrist. … Continue reading
what price freedom?
A holocaust industry. That god works in mysterious ways seems to be a pretty lame excuse. Forget faith. It was always about the covenant. Trust. The special relationship direct to the throne without intermediary. A misplaced belief? Yahweh simply wasn’t … Continue reading
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