"We have shown what sort of brotherhood free trade begets between the different classes of one and the same nation. The brotherhood which free trade would...
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster and if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you." Sick of...
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In an essay titled "Alchemy" <snip> I don't know why, but the rules of market-oriented literary culture remind me of good old socialist realism. I admit that...
For Carl Solomon I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn...
Blunt and honest, I can respect that. It seems mroe and more normal for people to just say what the truth of a matter is, and not just cover the world with...
Thu Oct 11, 2007 1:41pm EDT By Sylvia Westall FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Warty noses, saggy skin and meaty thighs can be beautiful and fascinating, according to...
New York Times - October 13, 2007 <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/13/world/europe/13hamid.html?_r=1> By JANE PERLEZ LONDON WHEN Mohsin Hamid embarked on an...
This is a land tailor-made for conspiracy theories and strange beliefs. These serve as a a substitute for thinking clearly, yet give their adherents the...
I can see how this would be true. ... From: Mike Ballard To: philosophicalcreativity@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 9:43 PM Subject:...
”At the centres of public decision there are powerful men who do not themselves suffer the violent results of their own decisions… Their public views and...
Anyone who read Marjane Satrapi's simple and evocative graphic novel, Persepolis, felt the sting of its final page. In Satrapi's first installment of her...
He met everyone from Martin Luther King to Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams to Bob Dylan. He survived the McCarthy era to record a unique oral history of his...
Whenever A and B are in opposition to one another, anyone who attacks or criticizes A is accused of aiding and abetting B. And it is often true, objectively...
I think I'm white ... -- "..freedom has a twofold meaning for modern man: that he has been freed from traditional authorities and has become an 'individual,'...
Sound familiar? Mike B) &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism: For the Fascist,...
Ah the call to arms. Thank the fish there is a little hope - at least for my outward appendages. Although, by Baldwin's reckoning its what I think I am that...
hahahahaha, sorry but I can't help. I know this is not a joke, but hahahaha... you see, I feel rascism for the first time when I was in US, because I'm a...
Sounds dire - must depend on which third is which. Optimism of the heart and pessimism of the mind sound ok but the other way around ...? ... -- "..freedom has...
Most anthropologists today subscribe to the theory that the human race first came into being in Africa and then spread across the rest of the world where they...
There's an Elvis Costello song about "poor fractured Atlas" who "threw himself across the mattress"; I always wondered if it was about the same character. ... ...
"The bourgeois want art voluptuous and life ascetic; the reverse would be better." -- "It was a woman who drove me to drink...and I never had the decency to...
Hard one to call I reckon. There are of course four permutations: Life voluptuous - Art ascetic Life voluptuous - Art voluptuous Life ascetic - Art voluptuous ...