Tag Archives: Theodor Adorno

hannah : bagful of banals

We are told (Isaiah 12:1): “And you shall say on that day [of the Messianic redemption], ‘I thank You, O L-rd, for You were wrathful with me!’” A polarizing figure. The godmother for anti-Zionist far lefties who can crank up … Continue reading

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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

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none was too many

So it goes, that many assert that if man is to be truly free,then he must be free to make his own moral decisions, accepting or rejecting a given absolute moral standard, or else he is neither free nor even … Continue reading

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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

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A is for ….

Is every man a free agent whose moral decisions are autonomous? Historically, we’ve been on shaky ground, more of a landslide really when our eggs have been in the humanism basket, a faith in an innate quality that would ensure … Continue reading

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fanon:betrayal of the masses

Frantz Fanon. The prophet scorned. Fifty years after his death, this theorist of revolution still echoes sentiments pertinent today but whether they are relevant in an era of post-modernism is open to question… …Fanon’s third theme is the betrayal of … Continue reading

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fanon: grasping the hoax

Frantz Fanon. A Prophet scorned… … It was while a medical student that Frantz Fanon began to grasp the hoax of his upbringing. The Martinican, he realized, was a Frenchman as long as he was underpaid or unemployed, as long … Continue reading

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fanon: learning that praise was suspect

Frantz Fanon: the prophet scorned. Belonging in neither of his adopted countries, this theorist of revolution- dead for the past fifty years, ended up finding audiences in unexpected quarters… The two elder brothers followed their father into the French civil … Continue reading

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very dark: obscure pure bees

Equal right to die…. Hannah Arendt termed it an “overpowering reality” that seems to be inherent in totalitarian systems in which the problem of evil could be analyzed but would remain elusive, a fugitive that escaped the most ardent manhunt … Continue reading

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a cow still had to die

A cow still had to to be sacrificed to make that leather car seat that adds such prestige to the automobile…. But young people, more than ever are less interested in cars, and more concerned about cleaner, safer and quieter … Continue reading

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