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maybe something good will come of them
And now we approach the jewish holiday of Hannukah, the Festival of Lights which recalls the victory more than 2000 years ago, of a militarily weak but spiritually strong people over the mighty forces of a ruthless foe that had … Continue reading
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Tagged Amona expulsion, anti semitism, Babylonian Exile, Bernhard Blechmann, Charls Darwin, Destruction First Temple, Ehud Olmert Israel, Festival of Lights, Francis Galton, Hieronymous Bosch, Immanuel Kant, Klaus Hoedl, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, prime minister olmert
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Tille, Alfred Russell Wallace, Benjamin Kidd, Charles White, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, Edith Birkin, Eufrosinia Kernovskaya, Felix Nussbaum, Francis Galton, Frederick Farrar, Friedrich Ratzel, Herbert Spencer, kahanism, Kikuyu detention camps, Lenin Gulag Solovetsky, Martin Heidegger, Max Hastings, Nikolai Getman, robert knox, Sven Lindqvist, The Boer War, W. Winwood Reade
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the height report: length anxiety
The long and the short of it. Theoretically, the importance of height is based on evolutionary origins, the ideas of genetic mutation and since animals use height as an index for power and force, humans assume the same traits to … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred adler, Charles Darwin, Charlie Chaplin, Dennis Wise, Dmitry Medvedev height, Dr. Mike Eslea, Francis Galton, francis galton eugenics, James Gillray, Joseph Goebbels, Malcolm Gladwell Blink, Napoleon Complex, Nicolas Sarkozy height, people obsession height, Robbie Savage, Social anxiety height, social inferiority height, Stephen S. Hall, Wilt Chamberlain advertisements, Yao Ming
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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
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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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omar the tent faker
How to escape the classic and enduring, reinforced Orientalist trappings, the colonialist “other” that keeps resurfacing in reinforced, ingenious and more invigorated fashion. Is this part of the running of the gauntlet, the typical immigrant cycle as invoked by Canadian … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged craig thompson habibi, Francis Galton, Harold Bloom, henry goddard psychologist, john frederick lewis, julius grey lawyer, Maxfield Parrish, Rick Salutin, Sam Huntington, stieg larsson, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, William Beckford, William Beckford Vathek
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124…surely you must be joking mr. feynman
One of the most divisive issues in Western society today are IQ tests. Hundreds of IQ societies exist which appear to be nothing more than serve a palliative function, enhance intellectual masturbation and serve as dating sites.Call it the IQ … Continue reading
wild things: the kids are alright
Songs from the wood….Forest Boy. The unusual but not unique story of the teenager who ambled out of a German forest speaking broken English and going by the name of Ray seemed to appeal and capture the imagination of Germans … Continue reading
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Tagged andreas grassl, claudia elitok, forest boy, Francis Galton, gersholm scholem, Gershom Scholem, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jean Jacques Rousseau, jean-claude auger, john ssebunya, kaspar hauser, nancy shevell, Paul McCartney, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, romulus and remus legend, roxy music, russell peters, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Werner Herzog
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history undone:android basterds
A vision of the primeval past wandering out of an imaginary forest of pre-historic times, lost in quirk of time. Yes, its the same notorious auroch found in the cave of Lascaux in southern France. The ferocious wild ancestor of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alex Constantine, allan hall, auroch cattle, bobby sands, Charles Darwin, Emile Durkheim, eric vogelin, ernst haekl, fountain of life program, Francis Galton, Friedrich Nietzsche, joel whitebook, katie drummond, Lascaux Cave, lutz and heinz heck, Max Horkheimer, Michel Foucault, Michel Houlebecq, Oswald Spengler, paul theroux, Sigmund Freud, simon de bruxelles, the island of lost souls movie, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Hobbes
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Dix & threepenny opera: an explicit body politic
The classic Bertolt Brecht question was an examination of the inconceivable; two forces in which it was not possible to reconcile: how can people be dignified and ethical under capitalism? The stock market as a Three-Penny Opera. The petty thieving, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, David Hare, Edwin Black, Fassbinder, Francis Galton, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Jack Morgan, James Watson, John Carney, Kurt Weill, Lloyd Blankfein, Lloyd Blankfein Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Craig Blankfein, Matt Taibbi, Michel Foucault, Otto Dix, Pecora Commission, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Randy Newman, T.S. Eliot, Toulouse-Lautrec
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST DEPENDING ON THE PHYSIQUE
”Every human face is a hieroglyph which can be deciphered, indeed whose key we bear ready-made within us” ( Schopenhauer ) From the ancients onward, Europeans in particular have puzzled over the face, devising methods for interpreting its secret language. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Antoine Coysevox, Aristotle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Charles Le Brun, Charles White, Francis Galton, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Haeckel, Lucy Hartley, Michael Foster, Monsieur Nivelon, Nick Hopwood, Patricia Magli, Physiognomy, The Kinks, Therese Davis, Thierry Poncelet
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