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’11 SLIFF BUZZ: To Be Heard

by Pier Marton | Aug 30, 2011 | Afri, Death, Doc, Eco, Film, Future Tech, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Music, Poet, Racism, Review, STL

Short review: Power Writing to create that safe place to be in/out of the hood. A student shouts “Poetry is rehab!” – a teacher inspires students to “pass the test of life… at a very special level, far beyond their subsistence” and hopes “to produce literate, ethical,...

’11 SLIFF BUZZ: The Hammer/Hamill – the movie

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Care, Film, Health, Human Rights, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Sound, Sounds, STL

A short review: Based on real events (Matt Hamill a.k.a. The Hammer)… An irresistible grandfather guides his grandson – you’ve got to wrestle with life (à la Jacob?): “If you don’t believe in yourself, I am not going to… Why do you think you have the right to feel...

Delusional and Misguided Clergy

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Antisemitism, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Mystery, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time

Protestant church officials in Austria and Germany lobbied the West German government to try to help Adolf Eichmann after his 1960 arrest. In a letter to the foreign affairs department of the Evangelical Church in Germany, Eichmann was described as “fundamentally...

Criminal Language: “Roadkill/Collateral Damage/Trash”

by Pier Marton | Aug 25, 2011 | Afri, Antisemitism, Art, Asia, Care, Death, Doc, Eco, Ego, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Media, Middle-East, Now, Objects, Politics, Quotes, Roma, Shoah, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

For more about escaping language/words: the Dictionary of Imploded Meanings. If you think the system is working, ask someone who isn’t or who was stopped “dead in his tracks.” An excerpt from Beyond Belief (Against the Weapons of Mass Distraction): (YOU WILL) KNOW...

George Carlin: 1937-2008

by Pier Marton | Aug 21, 2011 | Death, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater, Wars

http://youtu.be/UzmD9GEpdTw http://youtu.be/SurCWa8B8YU And some previous highlights on powerful figures. 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...

JEWish IDentity (whispered)

by Pier Marton | Aug 20, 2011 | Antisemitism, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Juif, Middle-East, Racism, Shoah, Sounds, Wars

by Roger Cohen in the New York Times “The lesson is clear: Jews, with their history, cannot become the systematic oppressors of another people. They must be vociferous in their insistence that continued colonization of Palestinians in the West Bank will increase...

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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