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Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 4

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Orwell, Jabotinsky, Fascism and Islam - Part 4

The Arab Riots focussed Jabotinsky's attention on the practical urgency of saving European Jews from being murdered and securing for them their national home. The Helsingfors Programme was immediately to hand. If it was good enough to understand Russia, it was good enough to understand Palestine

Anatomy of a madness, Part 2

Anatomy of a madness, Part 2

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.

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 6

Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism: we have become comfortably numb - Part 6

You cannot get rid of them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern. You cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behaviour. In these people the process of demoralization is complete and irreversible.