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In the Name of Anti-fascism | Clarissa's Blog
In the Name of Anti-fascism | Clarissa's Blog
It’s like the tribal wars that are permitted to take place in the name of “anti-colonialism”. The words and the concepts dominate, but the realities do not matter and neither does death. We are living in a world of abundant stupidity where people think they know what things are, but assuredly do not, no matter how much evidence is presented to them. Mugabe learned this trick. Just start killing and call it “anti-colonialism”. Everyone then goes along with it like docile sheep.
As I keep pointing out, the wounding at the base of the Western psyche is its fear of being identified as “colonial” and from this comes the whole distortion of the Western psyche and its capacity to take in reality. He gets stuck on words and attributes too much meaning to them because he is afraid to take in political and historical meaning
In the Name of Anti-fascism | Clarissa's Blog
In the Name of Anti-fascism | Clarissa's Blog
Postmodernism comes back to bite people on the butt. You can’t talk about real things anymore because the words themselves dominate and people don’t have the wherewithal or courage to be able to separate the phenomena from the label.
Postmodernism comes back to bite people on the butt. You can’t talk about real things anymore because the words themselves dominate and people don’t have the wherewithal or courage to be able to separate the phenomena from the label.
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Women in power stymied by gender bias
Women in power stymied by gender bias
Gillard's reputation as a negotiator, and what she describes as her focus while in office on ''how you get it done, the pragmatic things, even the compromises, the things that are necessary to achieve change'', made it hard to for the electorate to understand the matters on which she would stand and fight. While a male leader might have been praised for passing more than 570 pieces of legislation and his pragmatic capacity to get things done, Gillard may have been punished for violating the stereotype of female politicians as a moral cut above the rest because of the perception she lacked moral bottom lines.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/comment/women-in-power-stymied-by-gender-bias-20140124-31ehh.html#ixzz2vo2GHQ5E
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Chris Hedges | Suffering? Well, You Deserve It
Chris Hedges | Suffering? Well, You Deserve It
“The basic conventions of public discourse are those of the Enlightenment, in which the use of reason [enabled] us to achieve human objectives,” Offer said as we sat amid piles of books in his cluttered office. “Reason should be tempered by reality, by the facts. So underlining this is a notion of science that confronts reality and is revised by reference to reality. This is the model for how we talk. It is the model for the things we assume. But the reality that has emerged around us has not come out of this process. So our basic conventions only serve to justify existing relationships, structures and hierarchies. Plausible arguments are made for principles that are incompatible with each other.”
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The current state of university campuses is another example. There's debate about whether or not Greek dramas and other works of classical literature should be given trigger warnings, which is very much in-line with the whole demand to be "babied" or shielded from the unpleasant reality.
On the other side, it's obvious that the Right suffers from the same thing. In the US at least, the Right goes on and on about how much "better" things were during the 1950s, where you (allegedly) had a culture that embodied innocence. Today they target anyone who makes social contradictions more visible under the guise that they contaminate society.