About each culture/civilisation has been pretending to be better than all others for the last 10.000 years at least… Many in America
Many Americans select "freedom" as the only criterion that is supposed to make their culture "better" than any other one. The freedom they refer to is called “formal” freedom and it’s used to conceal many other forms of alienation. They may say they’re satisfied with this form of freedom simply because they’re the products of a given set of values.
Billions of people around the earth are the products of other sets of values which they think are "better" and "superior" to the values of their neighbours.
Billions of people around the earth are the products of other sets of values which they think are "better" and "superior" to the values of their neighbours.
Little circles think they’re better than little squares like little red dots believe they're better than small green points…
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That's about the shortest post I can write Ned...
I can't help piling up words and nouns and adjectives and verbs and on and on and on...
N'empêche, ça me sabote un sujet cette concision. Ggrrrr...
I didn't want a short post to go unanswered. To me it looks like you have been reading Herbert Marcuse "One Dimensional Man" and "Eros and Civilization.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5311625903124176509&hl=en#
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/marcuse/index.htm
In the video, you can see about my youth and university days. I know many of the people interviewed
Now, talk of a résumé!
Herbert Marcuse in 7 sentences! ;-D
Angela Davis seems to be a good example of what formal democracy is.
I didn't know Angel Davis was a student by Herbert Marcuse.
Well, the more I learn the less I know...
I guess you know this.
About your video, I'm in for 56'49 helping me forget my tinnitus. Hopefully...
May we catch a glimpse of you?
I had Marcuse as a prof for one or two semesters and I met Davis at his house, and at demonstrations.
I have looked at the film several times but haven't seen myself anywhere in the background, though I was at some of those demonstrations, but not the one with the recruiter.
My group of friends considered ourselves Yippies and did street theater. A couple of our heros were Abbie Hoffman, "Revolution for the Hell of it" and Jerry Rubin, "Do it".
Merci pour le lien vers Marcuse et pour m'en faire souvenir.
Je n'ai lu aucun titre de Marcuse mais je vais imprimer les articles de Wiki sur lui et les résumés de ses ouvrages sur Wiki anglais.
For a starter there's this.
Flocon
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