“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
I believe in human agency when a person lives in a free society. In China, Russia or North Korea, or other countries of their ilk, that agency is restricted by threats of State violence. That is not the case here, yet. We should not make excuses for the choices others make. Unless that person is mentally ill, I think we have to respect that person’s capacity to make a […]
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All of these things are true at once: Hamas’s goal is the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Iran’s goal is the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Hezbollah is Iran’s proxy in this. Israel and Iran have been engaged in a low-level war for years. Netanyahu’s government of right-wing racists is allowing their supporters in the settler community to murder Palestinians in the West Bank. […]
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I awoke this morning to the dead in Maine after one more mass shooting, to the dead in Gaza and Israel and Ukraine, to a MAGA anti-democracy fanatic becoming third in line to the Presidency, to a dramatic increase in antisemitism after the worst pogrom since the Holocaust, to an article in the Times about climate destruction , to Trump the destroyer of everything decent and good, always to Trump, since 2015, […]
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Reading Oedipus feels like standing on granite outcroppings on the Maine coast looking seawards. The rock is among the oldest on the planet and the Atlantic was formed about 150 million years old. Birds, sun, clouds, sky, rock, ocean. Oedipus feels as fundamental in its portrayal of human beings – universal in our capacity for blindness, essential and primordial in the rawness of its emotional power. In this time, Kings, […]
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