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sacred stories: niche interests
The sacred and the profane. the eternal tango. …“Monsters exist, but they are too few in numbers to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are…the functionaries ready to believe and act without asking questions.”― Primo Levi….Max Frisch once wrote that “technology … Continue reading
the secret agent: saving us by conspiracy
The cult of the secret agent. In fact as in fiction the spy is the indispensable person of our time. Yet their activity poses a deadly threat to the open society… …One likes to think that the antifascist fanaticism that … Continue reading
looking glass warrior
…In the nether world of espionage, a particular odium- and with it a particular fascination- attaches to that distorted mirror image of the patriotic spy known as the double agent. One notorious exemplar of the breed was Colonel Alfred Redl, … Continue reading
the secret agent: few scruples
…It was Munich that told all Western democrats that espionage was no longer a game. They had previously viewed Hitler’s new Germany as representing a conventional but not-to-be-exaggerated military threat to democracy. Munich declared it a monstrous, worldwide enterprise of … Continue reading
coming to a scream near you
Another critique of this Oscar nominated propaganda films coming out of Israel, the Gatekeepers and Five Broken Cameras. Sarah Honig fires a broadside, in the main, accurate, but not entirely. The part of her article on Jewish appeasement, lack of … Continue reading
the secret agent: the clubby attitude
…The myth of espionage as an essentially patrician sport, like polo, had some slight foundation. In the early twentieth century secret service budgets, except possibly in Russia, were still modest, and to stretch them as far as possible the professionals … Continue reading
secret agent: great game ethos
The cult of the secret agent. Despit the bling and action, the secret agent poses a menace to the open society… …The Great Game ethos of the professionals was reflected in the spy novels and a little later in the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Colonel Alfred Redl, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Erskine Childers, Hannah Adams Summary History of New England, James Fenimore Cooper, John Buchan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rudyard Kipling, The Dreyfus Affair, William Le Queux
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cicero: first he looked at the purse
One for the money and later for the show. We glorify and exalt the spy; from Nathan Hale down to James Bond, yet they pose a danger to the open society…. …A World War II spy, Elyesa Buzna- better known … Continue reading




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