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Culture Unplugged

by Pier Marton | Jan 18, 2012 | Afri, Art, Asia, Care, Dance, Doc, Eco, Film, Food, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Media, Middle-East, Music, Mystery, Native, Now, Poet, Politics, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Site, Travel, Women

Watching certain films… Culture Unplugged Philosophy: What we do matters, but why we do matters more. Individuality matters, but universality matters more. Idealism matters, but humanity matters more. Past & post matters, but present matters more. Product matters,...

Yip Harburg: 1896-1981 – “I think therefore I am… in jail”

by Pier Marton | Dec 29, 2011 | Books, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Music, Poet, Politics, Popular, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater, Time, Travel

Somewhere over the rainbow, Way up high There’s a land that I heard of Once in a lullaby. This page provides updates. And this one, tons of ressources. With an UPDATED version HERE. Lives of great men all remind us, Greatness takes no easy way. All the heroes of...

Being Pro-Israel can be Progressive!

by Pier Marton | Dec 25, 2011 | Antisemitism, Cam, Death, Ego, France, Highlights, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, KeyText, Middle-East, Native, Now, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Recently an apparently well-known British blogger featured on Democracy Now! was denouncing some British politicians for being “Pro-Israel” and from my progressive perspective I was shocked. I shouldn’t have been… Too many times I have been involved in discussions...

“We Are All Icelandic Jews!” (after the 1968 “Nous Sommes Tous des Juifs Allemands!”)

by Pier Marton | Dec 24, 2011 | Antisemitism, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics, Women

Iceland Jews are left out in the cold by Judy Maltz Though it numbers under 100 members, Iceland does have a Jewish community, and even a Jewish first lady. Some of them, however, say they’re afraid to identify themselves publicly as such. REYKJAVIK – Even in this...

How I became a ‘terrorist’ by Abdelrahman Al Ahmar

by Pier Marton | Dec 24, 2011 | Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Middle-East, Politics

How I became a ‘terrorist’ by Abdelrahman Al Ahmar in Haaretz. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

The Courage of Rosa Parks in Israel

by Pier Marton | Dec 24, 2011 | Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Politics, Women

Israel’s real Rosa Parks takes to the buses by Tamar Rotem in Haaretz Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit TweetShare on...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus