It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency & bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis
On this day in 1951, Iran nationalized its oil industry, triggering a US-backed coup.
"Abandon him here in Troy to wallow in all his prizes..."
“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
"War alters political psychology in ways that are rarely linear ... What in peacetime appears as irreconcilable fracture can, under bombardment, assume the form of brittle solidarity."
They are the way they are because we are the way we are.
Board of Peace - Season 1
The Palestine hunger strikers have been on hunger strike for over 60 days and are close to death.
They have not even been convicted of a crime - they are being held on remand (pre-trial) for more than twice the max time allowed, and counting…🧵
Thinking of a phrase of Tacitus's today, in the Annals, when speaking of political inventions and fake news: fingebant simul credebantque. That they believed what they had just made up.
A growing number of psychiatrists and psychologists are emerging with urgent warnings about a therapy known as Internal Family Systems, casting it as a simplistic allegory, and, at the worst, a dangerous pseudoscience.
Not bad Bafana Bafana. Not bad.
That’s one of the striking differences you notice as soon as you get out of the First World into the Third World. Minds are much more open. We live in a highly indoctrinated society. (1/2)
Congrats, Simon.
Never forget "the countless small actions of unknown people" (Howard Zinn), especially now, when evil seems to have the upper hand; do not overlook the salt-of-the-earth who are trying by way of money, prayer, protest—to name but a few expressions—to tend to the near impossible.
About suffering they were never wrong, / The Old Masters: how well they understood / It's human position; how it takes place ...
"They stood beneath statutes of the great leaders of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi & the suffragette Millicent Fawcett. The symbolism was clear."
"Religion is no substitute, but is the ultimate accomplishment to every other activity of the soul." This profound statement, which the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli recorded in a report of a dream, is found in Jung's CW11, ¶ 58. I quoted it here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
How are we to read this canine element and its progressive disappearance over time? What does the dearth of animals in mainstream Christian representations signify? In my latest post, I discuss Saint Christopher the Cynocephalus—an idiosyncratic image that was once a living part of Orthodoxy.
Ah, "Mourning and Melancholia"!
Any idea of who wrote the text?
Where is this from?
Teresa Präauer: "What lies beyond experience but not beyond the imagination marks the edge of the world."
This is what the Interweb is for.
Israeli human rights organisations B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights: Israel is committing genocide.
The siege has to end. There must be an unconditional and unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid. Anything less is genocide-washing.
The echoes of the past are not lost on us. The haunting images of desperate and starving Palestinians fleeing gunfire and forced to crowd into metal cages for hours on end as they await aid invoke the suffering to which many of our own families were subjected during the Nazi Holocaust.
We are not only reflected in the pathological "memory of states" (Henry Kissinger), we are also so much better than our ruling classes.
Never forget "the countless small actions of unknown people" (Howard Zinn), especially now, when evil seems to have the upper hand; do not overlook the salt-of-the-earth who are trying by way of money, prayer, protest—to name but a few expressions—to tend to the near impossible.
