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hessel: stuck down gideon’s well
Peculiar man this Stephane Hessel. The man of no fixed address in the spiritual sphere, floating vaguely between strains of Jewish thought and Christianity who grounded himself by welding his soul onto onto the deck of likely the ship of … Continue reading
karl marx: school yard bully
Karl Marx in London: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …The official name of KarlMarx’s circle was the German Workers’ Educational Society, and the educational aspect was taken seriously even when it had nothing … Continue reading
stern warnings
Freedom fighter or destructive nihilist who ultimately betrayed the cause of national right of self-determination through misguided, unrealistic and perhaps even self-centered interests that undermined nationhood? Like all the early Zionists, spirituality and religious values were indeterminant and largely non-existent. … Continue reading
cannabis: our reefer sadness
Life with a spliff more surreal, exciting, profound? Recapturing the moment before the soul came into the world when it was sky-high. Maybe cannabis and other psychotropics open doors as Aldous Huxley asserted or Carlos Castaneda, but its a high … Continue reading
muggeridge…punch for compass
Its always fascinating how people can make surprising unexpected transformations in their lives that leave one reaching for a guide for the perplexed. A classic case was Malcolm Muggeridge the fiesty agnostic editor of Punch, the irreverent British magazine, who … Continue reading
cain and not fable….
Gresham’s Law: the bad tends to drive out the good… …The Holocaust and Auschwitz. The question continues to haunt us, and the answers still elude us. We will never be able to justify the Holocaust, to rationalize it, to explain … Continue reading
fanon: still finding edge
…Fanon died of double pneumonia on December 6, 1961, six months before the liberation of Algeria. He was thirty-six years old. His body was flown back to Tunis with Ollie Iselin, the CIA operative, who attended his funeral. He was … Continue reading
fanon: enjoying the duel
Frantz Fanon. The theorist of revolution and a prophet scorned. An angry Isiah preaching to the choir? … …The repetitions, ambiguities, and facile rhetoric that mar certain chapters of The Wretched of the Earth are due largely to the circumstances … Continue reading
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