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call of the wild: frozen delirium
Delirium. Soviet Union. It’s what is not us, not only separate from us but alien,and so different that to confuse with us is to flirt with madness, like a visceral fear of mad love, a temporary insanity that may have … Continue reading
return on investment: kabul estates
The problem with the concept of the word evil, is that it resembles a black hole, a field that stretches toward infinity. The world is short of many things, but the supply of evil-doers and their willingness to act is … Continue reading
the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh
The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading
citizen’s arrest
Monday is apparently make a citizen’s arrest day. That is, when a crime is committed and no police officer is in the area, there is both right and responsibility to make an arrest. If we avoided all the major crimes … 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
when the saints come marching in
Friends of poverty. Suffering as a gift of god? The context for Hitchens attack on Mother Teresa was certainly sensational, down the sexual innuendo of the title Missionary Position. But, the broader context of Mother Teresa and the role charity … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, Andrew Potter, arthur c. brooks, charles keating, Christopher Hitchens, Jean Baudrillard, jerry sandusky, joseph heath, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Malcolm Muggeridge, martin drolling, pierre bourdieu, Thorstein Veblen, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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2+2 =5 the arithmatic of rational liberalism
Certainly, George Orwell’s 1984 struck a responsive chord among natural enemies- the left and right- that it said a great deal about the world in which they lived. Both factions draw what they please from it, but they usually miss … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Carl Jung, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Kellner, Franz Kafka, George Orwell, George Woodcock, Malcolm Muggeridge, Michel Foucault, Scott Lucas, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Roszak, Walter Benjamin
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