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  • #UnderSiege #MahmoudDarwish

    Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens of broken shadows, We do what prisoners do, And what the jobless do: We cultivate hope. *** A country preparing for dawn.… Continue reading

    #UnderSiege #MahmoudDarwish

  • Public memory, propaganda, and ethics

    My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was… Continue reading

  • Hard terror, soft terror

    The acts of radicalized “Jihadists” often hits our front pages and tablet news apps. It is clearly brutal. It is clearly intolerant. It clearly appalling. Yet alongside all of this clear terroristic activity are other forms of violence and inhospitable behavior.… Continue reading

  • Memories without rememberers

    Film by Alba Mora and Anna Sanmartí about the disappearing shamanic rituals of the Lanjia Sora Tribe after the arrival of the Christian missionaries in eastern India.   Continue reading

    Memories without rememberers

  • Trump and American #authoritarianism

    Take activated authoritarians from across the partisan spectrum and the growing cadre of threatened non-authoritarians, then add them to the base of Republican general election voters, and the potential electoral path to a Trump presidency becomes clearer. Source: Donald Trump… Continue reading

  • Artemis and Dark Matter

    Ginette Paris writes of Artemis: “The myth even makes her a Goddess whose beauty should not be exposed to human sight, as if to signify that this beauty exists for itself. The myths associated with Artemis suggest that one may… Continue reading

  • The itch nobody can scratch

    A real indictment of “business as usual” where “business” is the medical industrial complex. via The itch nobody can scratch — Matter — Medium.     Continue reading

    The itch nobody can scratch

  • The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson

    Happy birthday RAW! If you have about 90 minutes to spare, you would learn a great deal from watching this little documentary.   Continue reading

    The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson

  • John Dee in circle of skulls

    Apparently, in the original version of this old masterpiece depicting Queen Elizabeth watching her court magician, John Dee was standing in a circle of the dead conjuring goddess only knows what. Hidden beneath a painting of the enigmatic Tudor polymath John… Continue reading

    John Dee in circle of skulls

  • Loving devotion

    Caring for another, being-open for that other and to that other: these are aspects of our animated existence, of our being-with others. Do not fail to see devotion where it appears nor fail to appreciate how all life teaches us lesson… Continue reading

    Loving devotion