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Think Turkey Think

by Pier Marton | Nov 22, 2012 | Care, Eco, Food, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Sci/Nat

Previously posted a year ago… This is the time again for “My Life as a Turkey.” Excerpts: More: The full episode on the web. Can be viewed also on the mobile app “PBS.” Joe Hutto’s book Larry David’s Memories of Thanksgiving Maybe time to revisit also such as previous...

On the BBC: The BBC, Hungary’s Jews & Guilt

by Pier Marton | Nov 12, 2012 | Jewish, Magyar, Media, Politics, Shoah

The BBC cannot acknowledge their guilt. This is as close as they can go. The BBC and the Hungarian Holocaust on BBC 4 “Hindsight… It was not the job of the BBC to warn the Jews… startling… fatigue… (had they known) those Jews who died would have died fighting, and...

The Other Son – Le Fils de l’Autre

by Pier Marton | Nov 7, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, France, Human Rights, Ideas, Idées, Jewish, Middle-East, Review

Lorraine Lévy: I wanted to make a film about openings and hope/Je voulais faire un film d’ouverture, un film d’espoir. My review: I too could say “provocative and moving” as other critics have said, but I would rather not. Sometimes life takes a shape that does not...

(Amos) Oz v’ Shalom – Strength and Peace (in Hebrew): Against the Fanatics

by Pier Marton | Nov 5, 2012 | Health, Human Rights, Humor, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Quotes

Amos Oz is visiting England… 1. From his talk on the Middle East and the prospect of future co-existence between Israel and Palestine on BBC’s Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival (45 min.) – available for one more year: – We have to reach a livable compromise between...

The European Left and Its Trouble With Jews

by Pier Marton | Oct 29, 2012 | Antisemitism, France, History, Jewish, Middle-East, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Wars

… a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism… Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the militant group Hezbollah, famously commented: “If we searched the entire world for a person more...

Primo Levi on Truth(s) & Leadership

by Pier Marton | Oct 1, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Highlights, History, Ideas, Jewish, Politics, Quotes, Shoah

(from “Why Auschwitz” – in an “auto-interview”) It is the duty of everyone to meditate on what happened. Everybody must know or remember that Hitler and Mussolini, when they spoke in public, were believed, admired, adored like gods. They were “charismatic leaders”;...

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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