Wednesday, November 30, 2016
halā 'akhadhtu lihadha l-yawmu 'ahbathu
min qabli 'an tusbih l'ashwaqa ashjana
lahafi 'alayka qadaytu l-'umra muqtahiman
fi l-wasli naran wafi l'hijarana mirana.
– 'Ismaiel Sabri
(Would you have taken for this day that you fear/ from before the yearnings became griefs//I lament, for you have spent your lifetime storming/ in connection of fire and in departing fires.)
Monday, November 28, 2016
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Globalization hurt factory workers. Why not doctors? - LA Times
Globalization hurt factory workers. Why not doctors? - LA Times
It's a dirty little secret that while upper middle class professionals are generally quite supportive of free trade and unrestricted immigration they have explicitly been protected from the b#/^?/#! they foist on the rest of us.
It's a dirty little secret that while upper middle class professionals are generally quite supportive of free trade and unrestricted immigration they have explicitly been protected from the b#/^?/#! they foist on the rest of us.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | by James Baldwin | The New York Review of Books
An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis | by James Baldwin | The New York Review of Books
"One way of gauging a nation’s health, or of discerning what it really considers to be its interests—or to what extent it can be considered as a nation as distinguished from a coalition of special interests—is to examine those people it elects to represent or protect it. One glance at the American leaders (or figure-heads) conveys that America is on the edge of absolute chaos, and also suggests the future to which American interests, if not the bulk of the American people, appear willing to consign the blacks. (Indeed, one look at our past conveys that.) It is clear that for the bulk of our (nominal) countrymen, we are all expendable."
"One way of gauging a nation’s health, or of discerning what it really considers to be its interests—or to what extent it can be considered as a nation as distinguished from a coalition of special interests—is to examine those people it elects to represent or protect it. One glance at the American leaders (or figure-heads) conveys that America is on the edge of absolute chaos, and also suggests the future to which American interests, if not the bulk of the American people, appear willing to consign the blacks. (Indeed, one look at our past conveys that.) It is clear that for the bulk of our (nominal) countrymen, we are all expendable."
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Saturday, November 19, 2016
'Are we the Baddies?' Mitchell and Webb Funny Nazi Scetch - YouTube
'Are we the Baddies?' Mitchell and Webb Funny Nazi Scetch - YouTube
(Looks at our Commander-in-Chief/ Leader of the Free World's policy plans....) Wait a minute, are WE the baddies....? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
(Looks at our Commander-in-Chief/ Leader of the Free World's policy plans....) Wait a minute, are WE the baddies....? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Freire on revolutionary's role
“The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and be liberated, with the people—not to win them over.” Paolo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos, Bloomsbury: 2013, p. 95.
Lucien Goldman on socialist literature
“The epochs during which the dominant classes are stable, epochs in which the workers' movement must defend itself against a powerful adversary which is occasionally threatening and is in every case solidly seated in power, produces naturally a socialist literature which emphasizes the 'material' element of reality, the obstacles to be overcome, and the scant efficacy of human awareness and action." Lucien Goldman, The Human Sciences and Philosophy (London, 1969), pp. 80-81.
Monday, November 7, 2016
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Rilke on love
In the seventh letter to his young friend, penned in May of 1904 and translated by M. D. Herter Norton, Rilke contemplates the true meaning of love and the particular blessings and burdens of young love:
To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. For this reason young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it. With their whole being, with all their forces, gathered close about their lonely, timid, upward-beating heart, they must learn to love. But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is — solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves. Love is at first not anything that means merging, giving over, and uniting with another (for what would a union be of something unclarified and unfinished, still subordinate — ?), it is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world, to become world for himself for another’s sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things. Only in this sense, as the task of working at themselves (“to hearken and to hammer day and night”), might young people use the love that is given them. Merging and surrendering and every kind of communion is not for them (who must save and gather for a long, long time still), is the ultimate, is perhaps that for which human lives as yet scarcely suffice.
Thursday, November 3, 2016
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