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Thinking is indeed dangerous, and lonely

Toulouse/Palestine (Mohamed Merah)

by Pier Marton | Mar 21, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Health, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Middle-East, Spectacle, Theater, Wars, Women

Nous étions profondément choqués d’entendre dire que cet homme fou, ce criminel, prétend qu’il l’avait fait pour venger les enfants… prétendre qu’assassiner des enfants, n’importe quels enfants, des enfants français, des enfants israéliens, serait une vengeance pour...

(some of) the Baron Cohen Gene(ous)

by Pier Marton | Mar 10, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Dance, Health, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Jewish, Judaism, Media, Politics, Racism, Roma, Shoah, Wars

“Zero Degrees of Empathy” by Dr. Simon Bar Cohen, professor of Developmental Psychopathology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Experimental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. He is the Director of the University’s Autism Research Centre....

Joe Pollack, 81, dies today.

by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2012 | Books, Death, Film, Food, Jewish, Review, STL

Joe Pollack, beloved writer/critic, has died today. It is a sad day for St. Louis. His last film review posted by his wife Ann, after his death this morning. An earlier review of Food, Inc. – the movie. Harper Barnes on Joe Pollack. EmailMoreRedditTweetShare on...

To Forget Is To Kill Twice. Pier Marton

by Pier Marton | Mar 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Art, Death, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Magyar, Photo, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

Pier Marton on the Resistance & the Shoah “My parents’ generation will slowly disappear,” says Marton, “but the energy that created the Holocaust is still there. To forget is to kill twice.” Pier Marton in Savannah Morning News....

Alter Goldman Interview (Le Père de Pierre & Jean-Jacques’s Father)

by Pier Marton | Mar 6, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Ego, France, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Wars

English Below Entretien avec Alter Goldman (L’homme qui est entré dans la loi : Pierre Goldman) Wladimir Rabi (Editions La Pensée Sauvage, supplément à la revue “les temps modernes” numéro 353, décembre 76) Voici comment le père s’exprime...

Polanski – His Experience/His Films & the SS in Macbeth, Sharon Tate…

by Pier Marton | Mar 5, 2012 | Antisemitism, Death, Film, History, Jewish, Racism, Shoah, Wars, Women

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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