Apartheid - Murtadd to Human

Apartheid

A collection of 3 posts

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

Anatomy of a madness, Part 3

I read The Satanic Verses in the winter of 1996-97, unemployed and frozen, and again in the winter of 2014-15, Charlie Hebdo on TV 24/7. The third time was in that magical realist summer of 2020, with a fresh-ish MFA to my name, to study the work as art. 12 August 2022: the author survived.

The double death of "the Palestinians" - Part 2

The double death of "the Palestinians" - Part 2

We need to understand the Palestinians' initial refusal to acknowledge that they were henceforth Palestinians. Yesterday they were the mighty Arab nation fighting to drive the Jews from a part of that Arab nation’s vast land; today they are nothing but Palestinians, an Arab people without land.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 9

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 9

Newspeak, propagandistic language characterised by euphemism, circumlocution, and the inversion of customary meanings. Coined by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-four. Newspeak, “designed to diminish the range of thought,” the language of Big Brother’s enforcers. —Britannica (excerpt).