Caveat Lector

18/10/2024

Bibi

What I will never forgive
this pathetic
excuse for a man,
is that he has made
being anti-Semitic
chic
for the next ten generations.

17/10/2024

https://www.alandforall.org/english/?d=ltr

אנו נמצאים ברגע מלא כאב, אך טמונה בו גם הזדמנות לשינוי. אסור לנו לפספס אותה, זה הרגע להרחיב את ההשפעה שלנו כדי שנוכל לזעוק, לדרוש ולקדם פתרון מדיני שיביא לחיים בטוחים, ...

17/10/2024

It is, for me at least, extremely sobering to see a scholar of the Holocaust come to a conclusion I am sure I not the only person to have reached: that today's Israel has terrifying parallels to Germany in the early 1930s:

Israel is guilty of "genocide, ethnic-cleansing & annexation" in Gaza; the US is "totally complicit"; Israel faces "a terrible future" & could "implode": Pro...

15/10/2024

The Final Solution of Gaza?

Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-desc-ytWe speak with the reporter who revealed the Israeli plan to displace or kill the entire Palestini...

14/10/2024

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/report-of-the-independent-international-commission-of-inquiry-on-the-occupied-palestinian-territory-including-east-jerusalem-and-israel-11sep24/

  11 September 2024 Seventy-ninth session Item 71 of the provisional agenda* Promotion and protection of human rights   Report of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel Note by the Secretary-General The Secret...

13/10/2024

I voted, this afternoon over coffee and two election booklets the size of phone directories for a small city, at a museum cafe overlooking Kara E-Walker's timely "Fortuna and the Immortality Garden (Machine). A Respite for the Weary Time-Traveler. Featuring a Rite of Ancient Intelligence Carried out by The Gardeners Toward the Continued Improvement of the Human Specious."

Yes, I voted for Kamala.

Though I wanted to vote for Jill Stein - despite issues I have with some Green Party policies - but then, I long ago gave up seeking perfection of any kind in any political party; I just don't want to vote for one that supports mass slaughter of women and children by an ethnically supremacist state - Nancy? Joe? Kamala? Are you listening?

But when choosing between a party with a history of at least sometimes changing its policies toward greater decency, and a party that seeks to subjugate the entire country to a quasi-medieval theocracy, the choice is really not all that difficult.

I think.

Of course, we'll see. If we're lucky.

12/10/2024

"They [that is, neoliberals] are in favor of private tyranny."

This sums up neoliberalism as a political philosophy remarkably well.

It is also why I may not be voting for Kamala ("I am a capitalist") Harris (aside from her weak stance on Israel's predation on Palestinians).

©2014 Leigha Cohen Video Production http://www.leighacohenvideo.com/ https://www.youtube.com/user/LeighaCohenDuring the Q&A period after Noam Chomsky gave ...

05/10/2024

For those who are too ready to trash Megalopolis. Bravo, Coppola!

Review and analysis of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis, as well as examining the backlash and attacks against the movie.https://x.com/bloodofthelandhttps:...

03/10/2024

My poem, "A Day in October," has just been published in Synchronized Chaos Magazine:

Christopher Bernard will be reading at the Poets for Palestine SF Marathon Reading at Bird and Beckett Bookstore. For a donation of any amount to the Middle East Children's Alliance, poets can come and read at any time at the store on October 14th, Indigenous People's Day. Please feel welcome to sig...

29/09/2024

A fascinating essay-review (by David P. Goldman, of Between Heidegger and Novalis, by Peter Hanly):

(Quoted from the review:)

"Secular philosophers cannot easily dispense with Heidegger because they want the same thing that he wanted, namely “to make Man the ‘Master of Being,’” as Arendt noted. That is also what Arendt wanted, and she helped de-Nazify Heidegger in full knowledge of what he was. Arguably, Heidegger’s influence now is greater than ever; through his doctoral student Herbert Marcuse and Jean-Paul Sartre, Heidegger is the inspiration for today’s endemic belief that identity is a matter of self-invention. Heidegger is the grandfather of identity politics, of radical subjectivism, and rampant irrationality. As in Unreason now runs amok. This is Heidegger’s inheritance."

Martin Heidegger promised to make man the Master of Being. Perhaps we should blame Heidegger, not Marx, for putting our culture on the path to decline.

28/09/2024

Is there such a thing as Absolute Evil? What do you do when you are faced with it? What do you do when your government is its engine? What do you do when you discover that you, through your tax dollars, are funding it, feeding it, empowering it, making it triumph?

And where does it end?

Please remember to like, subscribe, and click the notification bell to stay up to date on all of our new videos.In this video, Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, the renow...

28/09/2024

I don't recall any mention of this in the U.S. media. I am shocked . . . shocked . . .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of_the_State_of_Palestine #:~:text=As%20of%20June%202024%2C%20the,General%20Assembly%20since%20November%202012.

28/09/2024

Has anyone seen this?

I think it's really quite interesting.

We might be able to cure ourselves of rabid capitalism (or is that "capitalist rabies"? But I digress) if we present it as an international health crisis that makes Covid look, by contrast, like nothing more than a bad case of the sniffles?

Despite a well-established social gradient for many mental disorders, there is evidence that individuals near the middle of the social hierarchy suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than those at the top or bottom. Although prevailing indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) cannot detect o...

26/09/2024

Thank you, sir.

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19/09/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pioMQNGisk8&t=501s

Yep, Classical is the best there is. No doubt about it.

19/09/2024

Elitists I Love:

(Critics Are Elitists by Definition):

I said it once and I'll say it again, Western musical culture is the greatest the world has ever seen. Deal with it.

19/09/2024

Erich Fromm, anti-modernist par excellence (see, for example, 42:27 onward):

Your support helps us continue creating online content for our community. Donate now: http://www.92NY.org/DonateAggression as a Specifically Human Phenomenon...

19/09/2024

Biden could stop this with a single phone call.

My contempt for the drivers of our foreign policy knows no bounds.