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U.G. Krishnamurti (not the famous one)

by Pier Marton | Jul 22, 2010 | Asia, Books, Ego, Highlights, Humor, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery, Site, Time, Travel

The two main sites: U.G.Krishnamurti.org & U.G.Krishnamurti.net And books (composed primarily of interviews): The Mystique of Enlightenment Courage to Stand Alone Mind is a myth No Way Out Thought is Your Enemy The Sage and the Housewife Stopped in Our Tracks:...

Don McCullin: “Don’t Forget”

by Pier Marton | Mar 11, 2010 | Art, Books, Care, Human Rights, KeyText, Mystery, Photo, Popular, Wars, Women

An interview with the noted photojournalist and photographer, with a retrospective in Manchester. He describes the solace he finds in the Somerset landscapes where he lives. He is the author of the essential book “Is Anyone Taking Any Notice?”...

Please Call Me by My True Names

by Pier Marton | Mar 11, 2010 | Antisemitism, Books, Care, Ego, Human Rights, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery, Politics, Racism, Wars, Women

by Thich Nhat Hanh Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow –even today I am still arriving.Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a...

Body Ritual Among The Nacirema

by Pier Marton | Mar 3, 2010 | Afri, Asia, Care, Highlights, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, KeyText, Media, Politics, Racism, Spectacle, Travel, Wars

RELATED TO THE SCHOOL OF NO MEDIA Published in American Anthropologist, vol 58, June 1956. pp. 503-507 The anthropologist has become so familiar with the diversity of ways in which different people behave in similar situations that he is not apt to be surprised by...

German Education: StruwwelPeter

by Pier Marton | Feb 18, 2010 | Antisemitism, Eco, Health, Human Rights, KeyText, Middle-East, Politics, Roma, Shoah, Wars, Women

Helps understand the syndrome of being closed to life, one’s emotions, and by extension, those of others. Haneke’s sadistic tendencies as a film director are somewhat easier to understand… The dual language version. The English/German options. In...

The Kernel of Truth

by Pier Marton | Feb 14, 2010 | Ego, Health, Humor, Ideas, KeyText, Mystery

As told by Thich Nhat Hahn, in Touching Peace. There was a patient in the mental hospital in Bien Hoa who seemed to be normal. He ate and talked like other people. But he believed that he was a kernel of corn, and every time he saw a chicken, he ran for his...

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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