Theatrum Mundi
Lumea-ntreaga e o scena si toti oamenii-s actori…
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Mi-a fost dat să o văd și pe asta: la cursul de Academic Writing, o profesoară, cam prea alienată de studenții săi, ne-a exemplificat tema alienării și a deportării/expulzării de sine prin tot felul de orizonturi, oferindu-ne ca suport vizual Gogol Bordello cu două piese: Immigrant Punk și My Strange Uncles From Abroad Parcă e…
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No one who has a taste for literature has the right to be happy because the only men entitled to happiness are those who are useful (industrialist Richard Teller Crane) The actual economical crisis was indirectly caused by the institutions that produce and sustain the educated elite of our times. The greed of the bankers…
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Cu adevărat că a murit multiculturalismul în Germania! Acum nu se merită cheltuite nici măcar cele câteva secunde de verificare a unor date despre o altă cultură/limbă/identitate. În publicația germană Badishe Zeitung, odată cu recenzia unui volum de eseuri din tinerețea lui Cioran, printre care se regăsesc admirații explicite față de vitalitatea lui Hitler, autorii…
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We had the experience, but missed the meaning. (T. S. Eliot) The old production-oriented culture demanded what the historian Warren Susman termed character. The new consumption-oriented culture demands what he called personality. The shift in values is a shift from a fixed morality to the artifice of presentation. The old cultural values of thrift and…
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If people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will then believe in nothing, it’s that they’ll believe anything.(C. S. Lewis) What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive…
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