"The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds." (Ronald D. Laing)
sábado, fevereiro 26, 2011
deep inside
"Ondanks alles, geloof ik dat de mensen een goed hart hebben." ("Apesar detudo,acreditoque as pessoastêmbom coração"; Anne Frank, 15 Julho, 1944)
nem eu, jamil, nessa coisa de sermos bons à partida. somos animais, feitos para sobreviver. a sociedade é uma selva, ainda que lhe vistamos vestes bonitas e doces. mas continuamos cruéis.
a bondade é algo que se cultiva, e é um milagre, quase, eclodir em terreno tão agreste. mas se chega a nascer, quando chega a nascer, é porque se criaram condições para isso. e é porque algo em nós existe que o permite.(ufa.)
"[...] Outro evolucionista, John Maynard Smith, é também essencial. No livro «The Major Transitions in Evolution», o autor defende que “todas as transições maiores da evolução, como a passagem de um organismo unicelular para multicelular, foram de natureza cooperativa e não competitiva”. E uma dessas grandes transições “foi a invenção da linguagem e, mais ainda, a invenção do alfabeto”. [...]
in http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=47891&op=all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtXYzkiBnM&t=25m2s <- R. Jeremy marvels at the genius of selling "Hogan's Heroes" to jewish executives and his mother not letting him watch it because it made light of Nazis and concentration camps in the 1950s...
Comentário:
25:55 Robert Clary, who played Corporal Louis LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes was a concentration camp survivor. Also, Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Klink, fled Nazi Germany in 1935. transtremm
Robert Clary summing up his Holocaust experiences: "The whole experience was a complete nightmare, the way they treated us, what we had to do to survive. We were less than animals. Sometimes I dream about those days. I wake up in a sweat terrified for fear I'm about to be sent away to a concentration camp. But I don't hold a grudge because that's a great waste of time. Yes, there's something dark in the human soul. For the most part human beings are not very nice. That's why when you find those who are, you cherish them." in http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165145/bio
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6z3LsUp35Y&list=PLEDACC0353715E483&t=33m13s <- "[...] Actually the greatest crime that we were subjected to was that they eliminated any capacity for pity. We were to be capable of thinking but not able to feel pity. I would say they succeeded in that. [...]" Hitler's Children - Education (Season 1 Episode 3) - (Harald Grundmann's testimony)
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/yh1It5Hjt4E?t=1h7m37s <- [1978] Jan Karski oral testimony for Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah (Hitlerjugend boys behavior in Warsaw Ghetto).
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ef91ATQHLc4?t=23m6s <- [Mar. 4, 1998] _, Auschwitz prisoner oral testimony for Guido Knopp's TV Episode Baldur von Schirach - Der Hitler-Junge (Hitler's Generals: Season 2, Episode 4) - (Hitlerjugend boys behavior on transport to Auschwitz). Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/BMOgVxLU2nQ?t=23m6s <- Baldur von Schirach
VIDEO(5 episodes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2O9WB8MRMc&list=PLEDACC0353715E483 <- Hitler's Chidren(Channel 4, ano 2004)
Never has a generation been so completely taken over by a totalitarian state as was the case in Hitler’s Third Reich: at the age of 10 children joined the Jungvolk movement, at 14 they joined the Hitler Youth, and at 18 they joined the party, the Wehrmacht, the SA, or the SS.
This 5-part documentary by Guido Knopp and the ZDF Contemporary History Department is the first comprehensive film portrayal of the young people in the Third Reich.
Mais informação em http://www.tvguide.co.uk/episodeguide.asp?title=Hitler%27s+Children
feliz 2014, amiga querida d'os muros! obs. recebo notificações de comentários ao seu post, daí sempre é bom recordar passagens memoráveis ilustradas por luminosos comentários daí e daqui, suponho. beijos!
"[...] ”Phoenix Program Details ‘Sterile, Depersonalized Murder’ Plan, by Mary McGrory. The Washington Post, August 3, 1971. The article reports on the testimony two veteran witnesses, Bart Osborne and I [Michael J. Uhl], presented under oath before by House Government Operations Subcommittee, which had taken upon itself an investigation of the U.S. Phoenix assassination program. My testimony was analytical and dry; Bart’s was sensational and got all the press. Both can be seen here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/phoenix-hcgo-19710802.html [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://www.inthemindfield.com/2013/01/22/deja-vu-all-over-again-notes-on-jonathan-schells-review-of-kill-anything-that-moves/
Talk with Douglas Valentine about Scahill’s documentary and the real history of the Dirty Wars that Scahill’s movie fails to mention: PODCAST: http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2013-06-13%20Douglas%20Valentine.mp3 [Total running time: 37m 11s]
Author and researcher Douglas Valentine of DouglasValentine.com joins us today to discuss his latest article, “Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence,” a critique of Jeremy Scahill’s latest documentary. We talk about the history that Scahill leaves out of his film and why he is being promoted so heavily as a type of celebrity by the pseudo-alternative (and even the mainstream) media.
Background information:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/06/dirty-wars-as-self-indulgence/ <- Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence (by Douglas Valentine / June 7th, 2013)
http://www.american-buddha.com/phoenixprogtoc.htm <- The Phoenix Program, by Douglas Valentine
O nome que faltava é VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ef91ATQHLc4?t=23m6s <- [Mar. 4, 1998] Imo Moszkowicz, Auschwitz prisoner oral testimony for Guido Knopp's TV Episode Baldur von Schirach - Der Hitler-Junge (Hitler's Generals: Season 2, Episode 4) - (Hitlerjugend boys behavior on transport to Auschwitz). Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/BMOgVxLU2nQ?t=23m6s <- Baldur von Schirach
Imo Moszkowicz - Life without hate (2008 documentary)
DVD
Leben ohne Hass – Imo Moszkowicz, ein Regisseur aus Deutschland, Dokumentarfilm über Imo Moszkowicz, 55 Minuten, Tacker Film, 2008
in http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imo_Moszkowicz#DVD
DVD
Life without hate - Imo Moszkowicz , a director from Germany, documentary about Imo Moszkowicz, 55 minutes, Tacker Film, 2008
Imo Moszkowicz (born July 27, 1925 in Ahlen, Münster; † January 11, 2011 in Munich) was a German actor, director and writer.
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.
"[...] "In the final version, you don't see the Wehrmacht rushing east, you don't see the Holocaust, which I regret. But that knowledge is assumed. We're focusing on something that hasn't been seen before; from our perspective, the darker side of the war, where troops of our allies were not heroic. Of course there is truth in the idea the Russians committed atrocities in revenge. But there's also a dark side to human nature. And if you're mobilising an army over someone's border, and there's no defence, just women and kids, then that army's dark side may come too. I don't think all those civilians could be held accountable for the Third Reich's crimes. The teenage characters especially had just been born when Hitler came to power. They're innocent." [...]" FULL TEXT in http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/a-subject-for-sympathy-germanys-rehabilitation-424531.html
"[...] The narrow group identification where we weep far more for our own than for "the other" is hardly unique to Muslim societies. To the extent that attempts to portray others as morally inferior provides a pretext to act morally inferior ourselves, I think it is an extremely dangerous tactic and certainly unworthy of our own lofty self-image. [...]" FULL TEXT in http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/09/27/perfect-weapons-and-the-ethics-of-collat/
"[...] Terrorism has always been what we in the intelligence world would call a "cover for action." Terrorism is something that provokes an emotional response, that allows people to rationalize powers and programs that they wouldn't otherwise [authorize]. [...]" - in http://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY?t=22m4s "[...] Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. [...]" - in http://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY?t=13m50s
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY <- [Mar 18, 2014] Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/zLNXIXingyU <- [Mar 20, 2014] Richard Ledgett: The NSA [deputy director] responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
Estimado Jamil, apesar de já irmos em Abril, espero ainda ir a tempo de desejar um bom ano! :) tenho andado um piouco distante do blogue (neste momento o update de comentários é mais frequente que o de novos posts! ;) ), mas já sinto a fervilhar na veia a vontade de recomeçar os escritos.
"sempre é bom recordar passagens memoráveis ilustradas por luminosos comentários" - subscrevo e agradeço à comentadora! ;)
VIDEO: http://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=4686 <- Liberated Czechoslovakia; wounded and dead Germans; POWs
Event Date: April 8 - May 8 1945
Place: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 00:25:21
Description: A makeshift slate reads: "Haglund, P 21, May 7." German troops, including Hitler Youth, receive food from an outdoor stove set up in a field. Close-up of a young boy who smiles at the camera. Panning shot of the line of men waiting to receive food. More shots of the men receiving hot soup or cereal of some kind. Men in Luftwaffe uniforms lie on the grass and eat soup. One leafs through a binder or pile of papers. They are smiling and aware of the camera. One man sleeps on the ground. Truckloads of men in military vehicles drive past a border checkpoint. The barrier is raised and a white flag and a Czech flag hang from it. The scene changes to a city in Czechoslovakia, where crowds of people smile and wave handkerchiefs and flags, greeting the American troops. There are Czech and American flags among them. Military vehicles pass slowly through the crowds. This appears to be the same location as the footage found in Story
01:07:28: Slate reading: " Haglund, P 27, May 8." A long line of POWs walks down a street. According to the original shot sheet, these may be "white Russians who fought for Germany" but it is not entirely clear that this is the scene referenced on the sheet. Many of the men look into the camera. Some of them are quite young. The vantage point changes to the back of the line of prisoners. A group of civilians follows behind them. Some of them run to catch up with the prisoners. Close-up of a Russian soldier on horseback. Another (longer) view of a column of prisoners walking along a two lane road in the countryside with fields on either side of the road (Germans or "white Russians who fought for Germany"). The camera moves closer to the prisoners, then follows them from behind. Back in town, another group of prisoners, in horse-drawn wagons, then trucks, pass the camera. More prisoners, on foot and horseback, who may be "Poles who were forced to fight for Nazis." Shots of individual dead SS men, killed by the Czechs, lying on the grass. Some of the men are badly wounded but not yet dead. A group of people stands around a wounded man who raises his head briefly. A dead body with blood on his face lies with Haglund's identifying slate beside his head. Several more shots of dead and severely wounded Germans. A woman described in the shot sheet as an "SS girl" walks down the road. She has been beaten and one eye is swollen shut. Several shots of her as she walks toward the camera. She clasps her hands (she appears to be holding a deck of playing cards) and looks down. The camera pans down her body. A half-naked man with blood on his face lies on the grass and looks at the camera. Another shot of the same woman. She sits on the grass with two men and another man stands in front of them. A group of American soldiers stand and look down at the corpse of a young boy in a German military coat. A white handkerchief is placed over the face of another dead man. Various scenes with smiling Czech civilians. Two young girls, surrounded by German POWs are filmed close-up. They look nervously at the camera (accused collaborators?).
01:21:51: New slate reading "P 80 4/8/45 Haglund." A column of German POWs, some wounded, walk down a road. The camera pans down to the bare feet of one man. Americans drive tanks down the road behind the prisoners. More prisoners; this time the camera follows their legs and feet. Several of the men wear no shoes. Tanks, shot from below, with smiling American soldiers.
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/3PiBTF8lhcY?t=3m4s <- (2000 TV Movie documentary) Hitlers Krieg im Osten (Hitler's War in the East) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844305/ - "[...] The leadership of the German army was complicit in the criminal policies of the Nazis. Question: - What sort of morality is this ignoring the rules of war and issuing such orders? Answer: - If I believed there is a threat to the western world, if the Soviet Union is a threat to civilization, then, look at from that point of view. If I believe this I take a moral stance, I am morally obligated to prevent this and my morals allow me to use means which I would not otherwise use. [...] At the time victory was still certain and if we had won, everything would have been right. If we had won the war against Soviet Union none of this, not even the crimes, would have mattered. [...]" More information in http://ww2history.com/experts/Sir_Ian_Kershaw/Hitler_s_war_in_the_East
"[...] The narrow group identification where we weep far more for our own than for "the other" is hardly unique to Muslim societies. To the extent that attempts to portray others as morally inferior provides a pretext to act morally inferior ourselves, I think it is an extremely dangerous tactic and certainly unworthy of our own lofty self-image. [...]" FULL TEXT in http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/09/27/perfect-weapons-and-the-ethics-of-collat/
"[...] as Finkel does describe in the book, that we were under pretty constant threat, and what he leaves out is the response to that threat. But the philosophy was that if each time one of these roadside bombs went off where you don’t know who set it, and you don’t know how it got there, and you’re just left with, you know, injured soldiers or dead soldiers, then people don’t know how to respond, so the way we were told to respond was to open fire on anyone in the area, with the philosophy that that would intimidate them, to be proactive in stopping people from making these bombs [...] [...]" MP3: http://dissentradio.com/radio/10_08_16_stieber_donate.mp3 (18:52) FULL TEXT in http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/17/josh-stieber-2/ [Scott Horton interviews Josh Stieber, August 16, 2010]
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/RR5PZ54Mews?t=48m15s <- [June 17, 2008] Philip Gourevitch talks about Hanns Scharff (German soft spoken interrogator in WWII), Stew Harrington (veteran of The Phoenix Program in Vietnam), etc etc.
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=21m2s <- [June 3, 2008] Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
Acerca da importância do contexto (sentido de normalidade):
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=30m44s <- [June 3, 2008] Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=32m29s <- [June 3, 2008] May 1st, 2003 speeches by George W. Bush & Donald Rumsfeld about the war on terror and POW versus security detainees (loop-hole on the Geneva Convention) - Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
"[...] “There are various other tricks of the trade. I’ve learned when to be more suspicious of people…. I think there’s a tendency to believe victims, for example. And I think that’s wrong, that in fact victims can lie as much as other people.”
That’s New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaking in the 2009 documentary Reporter to the lucky winners of the second annual “Win a Trip with Nick Kristof” contest. The famous scribe was holding forth about the need for every writer to develop what Ernest Hemingway famously called a “built-in, shock-proof shit detector.” It was a point the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner later re-emphasized in an online discussion of journalistic ethics with students who had watched the film. “The challenge is to feel passion and outrage without losing your skepticism,” Kristof said. “Over the years, for example, I’ve learned that victims of human rights abuses lie and exaggerate as much as perpetrators do. It’s very easy if you’re passionate and outraged to listen to victims and not double-check and triple-check and listen to the other side—or to get defensive when you’ve taken the victims’ side and not investigate charges that you’ve gone too far.” [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/somaly-mam-scandal-victims-can-lie/372188/
"MAYBUG, FLY I have previously remarked on the lack of melodic complexity of German children’s song. But sometimes those simple-minded melodies create ironies that are powerful in their brutality. A short and popular children’s song – a nursery rhyme really – has the following lyrics “Maybug, fly. Father’s in the war. Mother’s in Pomerania. Pomerania burned down. Maybug, fly.” One brutal reality, written for the voices of little children." in https://unquantifiedself.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/maybug-fly/
Art of the Third Reich (BBC, 1989) - (ISBN 0-8109-1912-5) Narrated by Paul Vaughan Written and Produced by Peter Adam Graphic Design: Peter Wane Film Editor: Julian Miller Art of the Third Reich: Winner of the 1989 British Academy Award in 1989 for Best Arts Documentary of the Year Nominated for the British Film Institute Award Nominated for an Ace Award in Los Angeles
Art of the Third Reich – Google Books: http://books.google.pt/books?id=C9xPAAAAMAAJ&dq=isbn:0810919125&cd=1&redir_esc=y
"[...] There as one event that I will never forget. She was a lieutenant for the NVA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Army_of_Vietnam] and she... 1st ... division in Quảng Trị capture her and we went to pick her up. After three months that she was in the compound - she was very quiet, she never talked to nobody - but it was her turn to go into the intelligence office so, I remember, I was on duty and they call me. 'Bring her on...', I don't remember her name. And I took her over there. And there were two officers from the South of Vietnam and two Americans, Navy guys, from intelligence and I had to stay there, me and another friend of mine, until they finish the interrogation, the questions. Like I said, she didn't wanna talk, and I knew when we took her over there that she was not gonna say anything because she didn't even talk to the other prisoners. We used to go feed her a breakfast, give her a breakfast, give her a lunch, and that lady wouldn't eat! That lady wouldn't even talk to nobody there. So I knew she wasn't gonna talk. So, we took her there about an hour, they got tired asking her questions... I took her to the back of the building. They had a big power booster and they had two plugs in each of the end of the power booster. They took that lady's cloths off. Once they did that I thought, I ask them what the hell were they were gonna do. I thought they were gonna rape her or something like that. But if they were gonna do that I was ready to tell them let me go... I am not gonna stay here, 'cause I am not gonna watch you doing this. You know, that was against my principles, you know. So ready I had to shoot somebody because they were gonna shoot me. But me stand there and watch them do that, I don't think so. So they called the company commander, my company commander. So I got on the phone and the company commander told me 'No, you got to stay there.' But they didn't rape her. You know what they did? They put a cable to her mouth and another cable through there [genitalia] and when they plugged that, all that electricity, that lady was bleeding through her eyes, through her nose, through her mouth... Every little hole she had in her body was bleeding through. They took those two cables out and they kept asking questions and when they put that thing again that lady was dead. I never forget the way the look that lady was giving me live 'Help me', like 'Please, help me.', you know. And ever since, even when I was in Vietnam, I used to think about that lady, you know. What a waste of life, you know. [...]" (Hector Vareda testimony)
in VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=42m58s <- First Kill (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312693/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380282/ <- Michael Herr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Herr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatches_%28book%29 <- Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that allowed Americans to understand the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War. At a time when many veterans would say little about their experiences during the war, Dispatches allowed for an experience and understanding of the war like no other source to date. The book is noted for a visceral, literary style which distinguishes it from more mundane and chronological historical accounts. Featured in the book are fellow war correspondents Sean Flynn and Dana Stone and Dale Dye and the photojournalist Tim Page. Dispatches was reprinted in 2009 by Everyman's Library as a contemporary classic.
ERRATA (https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=42m58s <- First Kill (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312693/):
"[...] So ready I had to kill somebody because they were gonna shoot me. [...] They took those two cables out and they kept asking questions and then when they put that thing again that lady was dead. I never forget the way, the look that lady was giving me like 'Help me', like 'Please, help me.', you know. [...]"
a) George Washington's treatment of prisoners in the American Revolution (http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/prisoners-of-war/) b) Abraham Lincoln: military imperative never means cruelty
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=54m42s <- [June 2, 2008] Revelle Forum: Philip Gourevitch Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
At 55m:31s: "[...] These are traditions deep deep in us. John McCain said when he was under torture in Hanoi during the Vietnam war, what kept him going was the knowledge that we don't do this to our prisoners and now he sign on for waterboarding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Historical_uses] because the political vote was going that way at that moment. [...]"
FULL FILM ONLINE: https://vimeo.com/49976137 [from time 9:30 to 13:35 and from 17:45 to the end]
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075404/
FULL FILM ONLINE: Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzltaq_the-ascent-1977-pt-1_creation Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzm84l_the-ascent-1977-pt-2_creation
Father (David Emerson) and mother (Mary Cochran Emerson) of dead pilot (William "Bing" Emerson) (in Hearts and Minds (1974)). Concord, Massachusetts. Filmed Early in 1973.
Any modern audience whether academic or political always asks, "Where is Russia going?" We simultaneously ask, "Where is Europe going?" We notice some alarming trends in which the classical traditional values which have made European culture great are now being erased. They are being replaced by clichés and by the almost totalitarian imposition of them. For me who was educated in Soviet times, when we had to repeat, "Marxism is omnipresent and therefore correct," I am struck by the similarity with some libertarian clichés for instance in the Council of Europe (where I was a member of the Russian parliamentary delegation). The fight for freedom of expression will have been in vain if another type of totalitarianism is on the horizon. We former Soviet citizens are very sensitive to these sorts of developments, exemplified as they were by the Rocco Buttiglione affair in 2004. We should recall the first generation of human rights and reflect seriously on the libertarian "third generation" which is actually threatening people's liberties of belief. It is high time for us to research into the philosophical foundation of the concept of human rights and how it has developed. We should explore how different the religious, philosophical and cultural conditions of a nation regulate or change the interpretation of the same principles.
There are democratic constitutions almost everywhere. But we discuss the dilemma Russia-Europe and not Europe-China or Russia-China. Why? Because we feel that there is something more that unites us than an American-style constitution which can be found all over the world. What makes us close and members of one civilisation is our Christian heritage. It is the Pater Noster and Thou shall not kill [VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=1h18s & https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=1h1m30s <- First Kill (2001)]. This may have produced different practices but we have the same interpretation of the importance of human life. A human being is an incarnated duty. Honour, faith, motherland - the idea that spiritual values are higher than physical life - this is what unites us! To say that only physical life matters is the end of human culture. Self-sacrifice for the highest values, such as that practised by Our Saviour, is the very foundation of our civilisation. It is what human history is based on. Without it, there would be no nation-states, no family, and so on.
I wanted with this introduction to show you the philosophical context within which we tackle the very acute problems of the modern political agenda. Of course we accept modern perceptions as mainstream but we try to widen the view with our research. I can only conclude now by saying that I am absolutely convinced that in the future geopolitical configuration to come, it is the cooperation between Europe and Russia alone which can maintain our common Europe as one side of the triangle Europe - China - America. Otherwise we will lose the importance and the role of principal actor on the international stage. [...]"
FULL TEXT: http://www.idc-europe.org/en/Natalia-Narochnitskaya-speaks-in-Rome-on-the-unity-of-Europe-s-Christian-civilisation (Natalya Narochnitskaya)
"[...] Mas Force Majeure (2014) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3630276/ - é também uma varanda panorâmica para o silêncio imponente da neve: a natureza a mostrar que é possível sempre apagar esta família, este modelo, da imagem. [...]" FULL TEXT: http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/o-espectaculo-da-natureza-humana-1694617
O que se passa no interior recôndito de um homem e o silêncio imponente da neve - a natureza a mostrar que é possível sempre fazer aparecer estas pessoas e depois apagá-las da imagem:
The Ascent (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075404/
FULL FILM ONLINE: Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzltaq_the-ascent-1977-pt-1_creation Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzm84l_the-ascent-1977-pt-2_creation
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/36939216#t=17m47s <- Larisa (1980) Alternative VIDEO source: https://youtu.be/jQFwojOks94?t=17m47s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Ascent_poster.jpg in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent
Turn on the Closed Captions (CC) to know the countries where the images were filmed and the first name of the interviewees. VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ShttAt5xtto?t=1h20m1s <- HUMAN, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (What makes us Human?) Alternative VIDEO source: https://youtu.be/ZoHWcpz5oZM?t=1h20m1s <-
"[...] He had a puckish streak. Once a woman invited him and Mr. Higginbotham to a party at her parents’ house. Her father kept tropical fish. She showed George Bell the tank. When he admired a distinctive fish, she said, “Oh, that’s an expensive one.” He picked up a net, caught the fish and swallowed it.
One day the friends were moving a financial firm. After they had fitted the desks into the new offices, George Bell slid notes into the drawers, writing things like: “I’m madly in love with you. Meet me at the water cooler.” Or: “There’s a bomb under your chair. Your next move might be your last.”
Dumb pranks. Big George being Big George. [...]"
FULL TEXT: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-new-york-city.html?_r=1
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2YNqmrvdmO8?t=6m2s <- Stanford Psychologist Dr. Phil Zimbardo and Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez visit Google to talk about their new film, "The Stanford Prison Experiment" (2015)
(Philip Zimbardo) - Don't be stupid. It could never happen here... (Stanley Milgram) - I bet they said the exact same thing before it happened...
Philip Zimbardo summarizes this experiment in one decisive statement: "Most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves."
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6z3LsUp35Y&list=PLEDACC0353715E483&t=28m28s <- Hitler's Children - Education [S1 Ep3] - "[...] It didn't fit the Picture at all. [...]" (Joachim Baumann's oral testimony)
Hitlers Kinder (TV Mini-Series 2000)- Education [S1,Ep3] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3593178/
(utilitarianism and the role of the innocent) - Quando é que já somos considerados humanos? Há vários graus de "humanidade"?
disse...
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cfPEyJ5KoBU?t=38m20s <- The World at War (TV Mini-Series 1973) - (ep. 18: Occupation: Holland - 1940-1944) - R.M. van der Veen testimony
Ser humano tem também é inerentemente uma potencialidade [que os animais (ainda?) não atingiram] ou tem de haver concretização?
Um extraterrestre com idênticas capacidades cognitivas (basta para se ser considerado de "nível humano"? Segundo este critério haveria humanos genéticos que seriam não-humanos...) não seria geneticamente humano... mas também não está no "nível animal" de "humanidade"...
Os humanos são o referencial com o qual todos os outros seres são comparados? Relativamente a que características?
...
"[...] seminários de Derrida publicados em L’animal donc que je suis (2006), uma das estações obrigatórias no acesso à questão da política e do direito do animal e à política da relação entre o homem e o animal. Derrida pensa aí toda a questão animal enquanto questão também política e revê o tradicional “limite abissal” entre o homem e o animal, partindo de um episódio pessoal, da experiência de um olhar do qual se sentiu objecto: ao sair do banho, nu, e no quarto, um pudor fê-lo prestar atenção ao facto de estar a ser observado pelo seu gato. A experiência de Derrida foi a de ver que aquele gato o via, o olhava, e por esse olhar ele sentiu-se exposto na sua nudez. [...]" TEXTO INTGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/homens-e-animais-1672985
"[...] tensão humanidade/animalidade que as fotografias expõem, isto é, aquela que nos leva a uma possível política da animalidade e a uma política animal. E essa política começa pela contestação de um “traço distintivo” do homem. Derrida “desconstruiu” essa especificidade partindo de um episódio pessoal: ao sair do banho, nu, sentiu que estava a ser olhado pelo seu gato e experimentou o sentimento de pudor. Nesse olhar, ele viu que o homem não tem a exclusividade do olhar sobre as outras espécies (e aqui o fotógrafo João Tabarra tem que se confrontar com este desafio: haverá algo mais antropocêntrico que o olhar fotográfico?). [...]"
Ser humano é inerentemente uma potencialidade [que os animais (ainda?) não atingiram] ou tem de haver concretização? Potencialidade de quê, concretização de quê?
"[...] Até aos cinco anos, não. Depois pus-me a fazer perguntas muito irritantes para a minha mãe, as minhas irmãs mais velhas. "Porque é que a colher se chama colher?" Não encontrava que entre a palavra "colher" e a colher houvesse uma relação evidente. Claro que esta pergunta não tem resposta imediata, a não ser dizer que é uma convenção - o que não chega para nada. A vida humana é toda convenção. [...] Tenho um grande defeito: não quero aprender através de alguém que me diga: "Faz-se assim." Queria descobrir. Por isso é que posso esperar 20 anos. Não quero que me digam: "Não percebes, mas é isto." É uma machadada em mim... Não tem nada que ver com orgulho. Nada, nada, nada. Tem que ver com uma autodescoberta que acabava de perder. [...]"
O seguinte episódio seria menos aceitável se se tratasse de um membro humano da família? Os membros animais da família são comummente (desejavelmente?) mais dispensáveis?
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/d_ffla6X4Ps?list=PLDF7B08FF8564D1FE&t=9m14s <- PowerPoint acerca da qualidade dos prazeres (versus quantidade) - in 8. Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand
O professor Iván Szelényi comenta o texto do PowerPoint: "[...] All right, and then a bit on quality of pleasures. Right? Really the question is what kind of pleasure satisfies us, rather than just the quantity. And I think this is a very powerful point. Well few humans would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals. Right? No intelligent being would consent to be a fool, even though they should be persuaded that a fool is better satisfied than a lot of man; it's easier to satisfy occasionally a fool. And this is really beautiful: "It's better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." Right? "Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Bingo, right? He got it. I think that's very beautifully done, powerfully done. Think about it. Very hard to disagree with this. Right? You want to be Socrates and dissatisfied, rather than just being satisfied by your needs. [...]"
FULL TRANSCRIPT (no final da página): http://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151/lecture-8#transcript
"[...] uma menina inteligente de apenas 4 anos. Se a ajudarmos e educarmos, no futuro ela pode ser médica, professora, cientista. Em vez disso, ela continua naquele campo” [...]" TEXTO INTEGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/quis-salvar-bahar-da-selva-de-calais-e-acabou-acusado-de-apoio-a-imigracao-ilegal-1720242?page=-1
43 comentários:
pois é, nunca acreditei na bondade natural do ser humano; as crianças, por exemplo, são super egoístas, já nascem assim.
a língua holandesa é curiosa, parece um alemão meio bêbado, falando arrastado e pastoso.
nem eu, jamil, nessa coisa de sermos bons à partida. somos animais, feitos para sobreviver. a sociedade é uma selva, ainda que lhe vistamos vestes bonitas e doces. mas continuamos cruéis.
a bondade é algo que se cultiva, e é um milagre, quase, eclodir em terreno tão agreste. mas se chega a nascer, quando chega a nascer, é porque se criaram condições para isso. e é porque algo em nós existe que o permite.(ufa.)
mas é uma luta, ser "bom".
engraçado como essas teses rousseaunianas tinham crédito no século 19.
ah, você sempre a dizer coisas verdadeiras da forma mais bonita; eu subscrevo tudo, até as vírgulas.
["Onde há vida, há esperança."]
"[...] Outro evolucionista, John Maynard Smith, é também essencial. No livro «The Major Transitions in Evolution», o autor defende que “todas as transições maiores da evolução, como a passagem de um organismo unicelular para multicelular, foram de natureza cooperativa e não competitiva”. E uma dessas grandes transições “foi a invenção da linguagem e, mais ainda, a invenção do alfabeto”. [...]
in http://www.cienciahoje.pt/index.php?oid=47891&op=all
Acerca de humor negro:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROtXYzkiBnM&t=25m2s <- R. Jeremy marvels at the genius of selling "Hogan's Heroes" to jewish executives and his mother not letting him watch it because it made light of Nazis and concentration camps in the 1950s...
Comentário:
25:55 Robert Clary, who played Corporal Louis LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes was a concentration camp survivor. Also, Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Klink, fled Nazi Germany in 1935.
transtremm
Robert Clary summing up his Holocaust experiences: "The whole experience was a complete nightmare, the way they treated us, what we had to do to survive. We were less than animals. Sometimes I dream about those days. I wake up in a sweat terrified for fear I'm about to be sent away to a concentration camp. But I don't hold a grudge because that's a great waste of time. Yes, there's something dark in the human soul. For the most part human beings are not very nice. That's why when you find those who are, you cherish them."
in http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165145/bio
BOM ANO NOVO!
:)
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6z3LsUp35Y&list=PLEDACC0353715E483&t=33m13s <- "[...] Actually the greatest crime that we were subjected to was that they eliminated any capacity for pity. We were to be capable of thinking but not able to feel pity. I would say they succeeded in that. [...]" Hitler's Children - Education (Season 1 Episode 3) - (Harald Grundmann's testimony)
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/yh1It5Hjt4E?t=1h7m37s <- [1978] Jan Karski oral testimony for Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah (Hitlerjugend boys behavior in Warsaw Ghetto).
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ef91ATQHLc4?t=23m6s <- [Mar. 4, 1998] _, Auschwitz prisoner oral testimony for Guido Knopp's TV Episode Baldur von Schirach - Der Hitler-Junge (Hitler's Generals: Season 2, Episode 4) - (Hitlerjugend boys behavior on transport to Auschwitz).
Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/BMOgVxLU2nQ?t=23m6s <- Baldur von Schirach
VIDEO(5 episodes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2O9WB8MRMc&list=PLEDACC0353715E483 <- Hitler's Chidren(Channel 4, ano 2004)
Never has a generation been so completely taken over by a totalitarian state as was the case in Hitler’s Third Reich: at the age of 10 children joined the Jungvolk movement, at 14 they joined the Hitler Youth, and at 18 they joined the party, the Wehrmacht, the SA, or the SS.
This 5-part documentary by Guido Knopp and the ZDF Contemporary History Department is the first comprehensive film portrayal of the young people in the Third Reich.
Mais informação em http://www.tvguide.co.uk/episodeguide.asp?title=Hitler%27s+Children
feliz 2014, amiga querida d'os muros! obs. recebo notificações de comentários ao seu post, daí sempre é bom recordar passagens memoráveis ilustradas por luminosos comentários daí e daqui, suponho. beijos!
"[...] ”Phoenix Program Details ‘Sterile, Depersonalized Murder’ Plan, by Mary McGrory. The Washington Post, August 3, 1971. The article reports on the testimony two veteran witnesses, Bart Osborne and I [Michael J. Uhl], presented under oath before by House Government Operations Subcommittee, which had taken upon itself an investigation of the U.S. Phoenix assassination program. My testimony was analytical and dry; Bart’s was sensational and got all the press. Both can be seen here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/phoenix-hcgo-19710802.html [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://www.inthemindfield.com/2013/01/22/deja-vu-all-over-again-notes-on-jonathan-schells-review-of-kill-anything-that-moves/
Talk with Douglas Valentine about Scahill’s documentary and the real history of the Dirty Wars that Scahill’s movie fails to mention:
PODCAST: http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2013-06-13%20Douglas%20Valentine.mp3 [Total running time: 37m 11s]
Author and researcher Douglas Valentine of DouglasValentine.com joins us today to discuss his latest article, “Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence,” a critique of Jeremy Scahill’s latest documentary. We talk about the history that Scahill leaves out of his film and why he is being promoted so heavily as a type of celebrity by the pseudo-alternative (and even the mainstream) media.
Background information:
http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/06/dirty-wars-as-self-indulgence/ <- Dirty Wars and Self-indulgence (by Douglas Valentine / June 7th, 2013)
http://www.american-buddha.com/phoenixprogtoc.htm <- The Phoenix Program, by Douglas Valentine
ERRATA:
O nome que faltava é
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/ef91ATQHLc4?t=23m6s <- [Mar. 4, 1998] Imo Moszkowicz, Auschwitz prisoner oral testimony for Guido Knopp's TV Episode Baldur von Schirach - Der Hitler-Junge (Hitler's Generals: Season 2, Episode 4) - (Hitlerjugend boys behavior on transport to Auschwitz).
Alternative video source: http://youtu.be/BMOgVxLU2nQ?t=23m6s <- Baldur von Schirach
Imo Moszkowicz - Life without hate (2008 documentary)
DVD
Leben ohne Hass – Imo Moszkowicz, ein Regisseur aus Deutschland, Dokumentarfilm über Imo Moszkowicz, 55 Minuten, Tacker Film, 2008
in http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imo_Moszkowicz#DVD
DVD
Life without hate - Imo Moszkowicz , a director from Germany, documentary about Imo Moszkowicz, 55 minutes, Tacker Film, 2008
Imo Moszkowicz (born July 27, 1925 in Ahlen, Münster; † January 11, 2011 in Munich) was a German actor, director and writer.
Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them.
"[...] "In the final version, you don't see the Wehrmacht rushing east, you don't see the Holocaust, which I regret. But that knowledge is assumed. We're focusing on something that hasn't been seen before; from our perspective, the darker side of the war, where troops of our allies were not heroic. Of course there is truth in the idea the Russians committed atrocities in revenge. But there's also a dark side to human nature. And if you're mobilising an army over someone's border, and there's no defence, just women and kids, then that army's dark side may come too. I don't think all those civilians could be held accountable for the Third Reich's crimes. The teenage characters especially had just been born when Hitler came to power. They're innocent." [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/a-subject-for-sympathy-germanys-rehabilitation-424531.html
"[...] The narrow group identification where we weep far more for our own than for "the other" is hardly unique to Muslim societies. To the extent that attempts to portray others as morally inferior provides a pretext to act morally inferior ourselves, I think it is an extremely dangerous tactic and certainly unworthy of our own lofty self-image. [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/09/27/perfect-weapons-and-the-ethics-of-collat/
"[...] Terrorism has always been what we in the intelligence world would call a "cover for action." Terrorism is something that provokes an emotional response, that allows people to rationalize powers and programs that they wouldn't otherwise [authorize]. [...]" - in http://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY?t=22m4s
"[...] Your rights matter, because you never know when you're going to need them. [...]" - in http://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY?t=13m50s
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/yVwAodrjZMY <- [Mar 18, 2014] Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/zLNXIXingyU <- [Mar 20, 2014] Richard Ledgett: The NSA [deputy director] responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
Documentário sobre propaganda Nazi: http://www.lexpress.fr/culture/tele/propaganda-kompanien-reportage-sur-la-propagande-nazie_1211816.html
"Vamos bricar à guerra?"
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/0Q5iSa4t2ns?t=1h10m42s <- Propagandia Kompanien, Reporters du IIIème Reich (Véronique Lhorme) - crianças / adolescentes na guerra (como soldados)
ERRATA:
*brincar (não bricar)
Ups. :)
Estimado Jamil, apesar de já irmos em Abril, espero ainda ir a tempo de desejar um bom ano! :)
tenho andado um piouco distante do blogue (neste momento o update de comentários é mais frequente que o de novos posts! ;) ), mas já sinto a fervilhar na veia a vontade de recomeçar os escritos.
"sempre é bom recordar passagens memoráveis ilustradas por luminosos comentários" - subscrevo e agradeço à comentadora! ;)
abraço aos dois!
VIDEO: http://www.ushmm.org/online/film/display/detail.php?file_num=4686 <- Liberated Czechoslovakia; wounded and dead Germans; POWs
Event Date:
April 8 - May 8 1945
Place:
Czechoslovakia
Duration:
00:25:21
Description:
A makeshift slate reads: "Haglund, P 21, May 7." German troops, including Hitler Youth, receive food from an outdoor stove set up in a field. Close-up of a young boy who smiles at the camera. Panning shot of the line of men waiting to receive food. More shots of the men receiving hot soup or cereal of some kind. Men in Luftwaffe uniforms lie on the grass and eat soup. One leafs through a binder or pile of papers. They are smiling and aware of the camera. One man sleeps on the ground. Truckloads of men in military vehicles drive past a border checkpoint. The barrier is raised and a white flag and a Czech flag hang from it. The scene changes to a city in Czechoslovakia, where crowds of people smile and wave handkerchiefs and flags, greeting the American troops. There are Czech and American flags among them. Military vehicles pass slowly through the crowds. This appears to be the same location as the footage found in Story
01:07:28: Slate reading: " Haglund, P 27, May 8." A long line of POWs walks down a street. According to the original shot sheet, these may be "white Russians who fought for Germany" but it is not entirely clear that this is the scene referenced on the sheet. Many of the men look into the camera. Some of them are quite young. The vantage point changes to the back of the line of prisoners. A group of civilians follows behind them. Some of them run to catch up with the prisoners. Close-up of a Russian soldier on horseback. Another (longer) view of a column of prisoners walking along a two lane road in the countryside with fields on either side of the road (Germans or "white Russians who fought for Germany"). The camera moves closer to the prisoners, then follows them from behind. Back in town, another group of prisoners, in horse-drawn wagons, then trucks, pass the camera. More prisoners, on foot and horseback, who may be "Poles who were forced to fight for Nazis." Shots of individual dead SS men, killed by the Czechs, lying on the grass. Some of the men are badly wounded but not yet dead. A group of people stands around a wounded man who raises his head briefly. A dead body with blood on his face lies with Haglund's identifying slate beside his head. Several more shots of dead and severely wounded Germans. A woman described in the shot sheet as an "SS girl" walks down the road. She has been beaten and one eye is swollen shut. Several shots of her as she walks toward the camera. She clasps her hands (she appears to be holding a deck of playing cards) and looks down. The camera pans down her body. A half-naked man with blood on his face lies on the grass and looks at the camera. Another shot of the same woman. She sits on the grass with two men and another man stands in front of them. A group of American soldiers stand and look down at the corpse of a young boy in a German military coat. A white handkerchief is placed over the face of another dead man. Various scenes with smiling Czech civilians. Two young girls, surrounded by German POWs are filmed close-up. They look nervously at the camera (accused collaborators?).
01:21:51: New slate reading "P 80 4/8/45 Haglund." A column of German POWs, some wounded, walk down a road. The camera pans down to the bare feet of one man. Americans drive tanks down the road behind the prisoners. More prisoners; this time the camera follows their legs and feet. Several of the men wear no shoes. Tanks, shot from below, with smiling American soldiers.
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/3PiBTF8lhcY?t=3m4s <- (2000 TV Movie documentary) Hitlers Krieg im Osten (Hitler's War in the East)
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0844305/ - "[...] The leadership of the German army was complicit in the criminal policies of the Nazis.
Question: - What sort of morality is this ignoring the rules of war and issuing such orders?
Answer: - If I believed there is a threat to the western world, if the Soviet Union is a threat to civilization, then, look at from that point of view. If I believe this I take a moral stance, I am morally obligated to prevent this and my morals allow me to use means which I would not otherwise use. [...] At the time victory was still certain and if we had won, everything would have been right. If we had won the war against Soviet Union none of this, not even the crimes, would have mattered. [...]"
More information in http://ww2history.com/experts/Sir_Ian_Kershaw/Hitler_s_war_in_the_East
"[...] The narrow group identification where we weep far more for our own than for "the other" is hardly unique to Muslim societies. To the extent that attempts to portray others as morally inferior provides a pretext to act morally inferior ourselves, I think it is an extremely dangerous tactic and certainly unworthy of our own lofty self-image. [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://invisiblecollege.weblog.leidenuniv.nl/2007/09/27/perfect-weapons-and-the-ethics-of-collat/
"[...] as Finkel does describe in the book, that we were under pretty constant threat, and what he leaves out is the response to that threat. But the philosophy was that if each time one of these roadside bombs went off where you don’t know who set it, and you don’t know how it got there, and you’re just left with, you know, injured soldiers or dead soldiers, then people don’t know how to respond, so the way we were told to respond was to open fire on anyone in the area, with the philosophy that that would intimidate them, to be proactive in stopping people from making these bombs [...] [...]"
MP3: http://dissentradio.com/radio/10_08_16_stieber_donate.mp3 (18:52)
FULL TEXT in http://antiwar.com/radio/2010/08/17/josh-stieber-2/ [Scott Horton interviews Josh Stieber, August 16, 2010]
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/RR5PZ54Mews?t=48m15s <- [June 17, 2008] Philip Gourevitch talks about Hanns Scharff (German soft spoken interrogator in WWII), Stew Harrington (veteran of The Phoenix Program in Vietnam), etc etc.
Curioso...
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=21m2s <- [June 3, 2008] Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
Acerca da importância do contexto (sentido de normalidade):
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=30m44s <- [June 3, 2008] Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
VIDEO: http://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=32m29s <- [June 3, 2008] May 1st, 2003 speeches by George W. Bush & Donald Rumsfeld about the war on terror and POW versus security detainees (loop-hole on the Geneva Convention) - Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
"[...] “There are various other tricks of the trade. I’ve learned when to be more suspicious of people…. I think there’s a tendency to believe victims, for example. And I think that’s wrong, that in fact victims can lie as much as other people.”
That’s New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof speaking in the 2009 documentary Reporter to the lucky winners of the second annual “Win a Trip with Nick Kristof” contest. The famous scribe was holding forth about the need for every writer to develop what Ernest Hemingway famously called a “built-in, shock-proof shit detector.” It was a point the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner later re-emphasized in an online discussion of journalistic ethics with students who had watched the film. “The challenge is to feel passion and outrage without losing your skepticism,” Kristof said. “Over the years, for example, I’ve learned that victims of human rights abuses lie and exaggerate as much as perpetrators do. It’s very easy if you’re passionate and outraged to listen to victims and not double-check and triple-check and listen to the other side—or to get defensive when you’ve taken the victims’ side and not investigate charges that you’ve gone too far.” [...]"
FULL TEXT in http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/06/somaly-mam-scandal-victims-can-lie/372188/
"MAYBUG, FLY
I have previously remarked on the lack of melodic complexity of German children’s song. But sometimes those simple-minded melodies create ironies that are powerful in their brutality. A short and popular children’s song – a nursery rhyme really – has the following lyrics “Maybug, fly. Father’s in the war. Mother’s in Pomerania. Pomerania burned down. Maybug, fly.” One brutal reality, written for the voices of little children."
in https://unquantifiedself.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/maybug-fly/
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL4e2NvrTFs&index=3&list=PLoOs2BXV28kt-WxQgNiloKPInccSNwoJU&t=9m42s
Art of the Third Reich (BBC, 1989) - (ISBN 0-8109-1912-5)
Narrated by Paul Vaughan
Written and Produced by Peter Adam
Graphic Design: Peter Wane
Film Editor: Julian Miller
Art of the Third Reich: Winner of the 1989 British Academy Award in 1989 for Best Arts Documentary of the Year
Nominated for the British Film Institute Award
Nominated for an Ace Award in Los Angeles
Art of the Third Reich – Google Books: http://books.google.pt/books?id=C9xPAAAAMAAJ&dq=isbn:0810919125&cd=1&redir_esc=y
"[...] There as one event that I will never forget. She was a lieutenant for the NVA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Army_of_Vietnam] and she... 1st ... division in Quảng Trị capture her and we went to pick her up. After three months that she was in the compound - she was very quiet, she never talked to nobody - but it was her turn to go into the intelligence office so, I remember, I was on duty and they call me. 'Bring her on...', I don't remember her name. And I took her over there. And there were two officers from the South of Vietnam and two Americans, Navy guys, from intelligence and I had to stay there, me and another friend of mine, until they finish the interrogation, the questions. Like I said, she didn't wanna talk, and I knew when we took her over there that she was not gonna say anything because she didn't even talk to the other prisoners. We used to go feed her a breakfast, give her a breakfast, give her a lunch, and that lady wouldn't eat! That lady wouldn't even talk to nobody there. So I knew she wasn't gonna talk. So, we took her there about an hour, they got tired asking her questions... I took her to the back of the building. They had a big power booster and they had two plugs in each of the end of the power booster. They took that lady's cloths off. Once they did that I thought, I ask them what the hell were they were gonna do. I thought they were gonna rape her or something like that. But if they were gonna do that I was ready to tell them let me go... I am not gonna stay here, 'cause I am not gonna watch you doing this. You know, that was against my principles, you know. So ready I had to shoot somebody because they were gonna shoot me. But me stand there and watch them do that, I don't think so. So they called the company commander, my company commander. So I got on the phone and the company commander told me 'No, you got to stay there.' But they didn't rape her. You know what they did? They put a cable to her mouth and another cable through there [genitalia] and when they plugged that, all that electricity, that lady was bleeding through her eyes, through her nose, through her mouth... Every little hole she had in her body was bleeding through. They took those two cables out and they kept asking questions and when they put that thing again that lady was dead. I never forget the way the look that lady was giving me live 'Help me', like 'Please, help me.', you know. And ever since, even when I was in Vietnam, I used to think about that lady, you know. What a waste of life, you know. [...]" (Hector Vareda testimony)
in VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=42m58s <- First Kill (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312693/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0380282/ <- Michael Herr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Herr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispatches_%28book%29 <- Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that allowed Americans to understand the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War. At a time when many veterans would say little about their experiences during the war, Dispatches allowed for an experience and understanding of the war like no other source to date. The book is noted for a visceral, literary style which distinguishes it from more mundane and chronological historical accounts. Featured in the book are fellow war correspondents Sean Flynn and Dana Stone and Dale Dye and the photojournalist Tim Page. Dispatches was reprinted in 2009 by Everyman's Library as a contemporary classic.
ERRATA (https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=42m58s <- First Kill (2001) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312693/):
"[...] So ready I had to kill somebody because they were gonna shoot me. [...] They took those two cables out and they kept asking questions and then when they put that thing again that lady was dead. I never forget the way, the look that lady was giving me like 'Help me', like 'Please, help me.', you know. [...]"
a) George Washington's treatment of prisoners in the American Revolution (http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/prisoners-of-war/)
b) Abraham Lincoln: military imperative never means cruelty
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/AL7ORVKS84g?t=54m42s <- [June 2, 2008] Revelle Forum: Philip Gourevitch
Longtime New Yorker writer and now editor of The Paris Review, journalist Philip Gourevitch provides a searing account of how American soldiers -- turned Abu Ghraib jaiiers -- became both instruments and victims of great injustice as they dehumanized their prisoners and themselves. Series: Revelle Forum at the Neurosciences Institute [7/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 14695]
At 55m:31s: "[...] These are traditions deep deep in us. John McCain said when he was under torture in Hanoi during the Vietnam war, what kept him going was the knowledge that we don't do this to our prisoners and now he sign on for waterboarding [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterboarding#Historical_uses] because the political vote was going that way at that moment. [...]"
"War happens to people, one by one."
Larisa (Elem Klimov, 1980)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081030/
FULL FILM ONLINE:
https://vimeo.com/49976137 [from time 9:30 to 13:35 and from 17:45 to the end]
The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075404/
FULL FILM ONLINE:
Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzltaq_the-ascent-1977-pt-1_creation
Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzm84l_the-ascent-1977-pt-2_creation
Hearts and Minds (1974)
Father (David Emerson) and mother (Mary Cochran Emerson) of dead pilot (William "Bing" Emerson) (in Hearts and Minds (1974)). Concord, Massachusetts. Filmed Early in 1973.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1d2ml82lc7s?t=31m19s
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/1d2ml82lc7s?t=1h32m58s
William ("Bing") died in 1968 in Vietnam.
"[...]
Any modern audience whether academic or political always asks, "Where is Russia going?" We simultaneously ask, "Where is Europe going?" We notice some alarming trends in which the classical traditional values which have made European culture great are now being erased. They are being replaced by clichés and by the almost totalitarian imposition of them. For me who was educated in Soviet times, when we had to repeat, "Marxism is omnipresent and therefore correct," I am struck by the similarity with some libertarian clichés for instance in the Council of Europe (where I was a member of the Russian parliamentary delegation). The fight for freedom of expression will have been in vain if another type of totalitarianism is on the horizon. We former Soviet citizens are very sensitive to these sorts of developments, exemplified as they were by the Rocco Buttiglione affair in 2004. We should recall the first generation of human rights and reflect seriously on the libertarian "third generation" which is actually threatening people's liberties of belief. It is high time for us to research into the philosophical foundation of the concept of human rights and how it has developed. We should explore how different the religious, philosophical and cultural conditions of a nation regulate or change the interpretation of the same principles.
There are democratic constitutions almost everywhere. But we discuss the dilemma Russia-Europe and not Europe-China or Russia-China. Why? Because we feel that there is something more that unites us than an American-style constitution which can be found all over the world. What makes us close and members of one civilisation is our Christian heritage. It is the Pater Noster and Thou shall not kill [VIDEO: https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=1h18s & https://youtu.be/m0m573MxXXw?t=1h1m30s <- First Kill (2001)]. This may have produced different practices but we have the same interpretation of the importance of human life. A human being is an incarnated duty. Honour, faith, motherland - the idea that spiritual values are higher than physical life - this is what unites us! To say that only physical life matters is the end of human culture. Self-sacrifice for the highest values, such as that practised by Our Saviour, is the very foundation of our civilisation. It is what human history is based on. Without it, there would be no nation-states, no family, and so on.
I wanted with this introduction to show you the philosophical context within which we tackle the very acute problems of the modern political agenda. Of course we accept modern perceptions as mainstream but we try to widen the view with our research. I can only conclude now by saying that I am absolutely convinced that in the future geopolitical configuration to come, it is the cooperation between Europe and Russia alone which can maintain our common Europe as one side of the triangle Europe - China - America. Otherwise we will lose the importance and the role of principal actor on the international stage.
[...]"
FULL TEXT: http://www.idc-europe.org/en/Natalia-Narochnitskaya-speaks-in-Rome-on-the-unity-of-Europe-s-Christian-civilisation (Natalya Narochnitskaya)
"[...] Mas Force Majeure (2014) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3630276/ - é também uma varanda panorâmica para o silêncio imponente da neve: a natureza a mostrar que é possível sempre apagar esta família, este modelo, da imagem. [...]"
FULL TEXT: http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/o-espectaculo-da-natureza-humana-1694617
O que se passa no interior recôndito de um homem e o silêncio imponente da neve - a natureza a mostrar que é possível sempre fazer aparecer estas pessoas e depois apagá-las da imagem:
The Ascent (1977) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075404/
FULL FILM ONLINE:
Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzltaq_the-ascent-1977-pt-1_creation
Part 2: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xzm84l_the-ascent-1977-pt-2_creation
#WhatMakesUsHUMAN
VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/36939216#t=17m47s <- Larisa (1980)
Alternative VIDEO source: https://youtu.be/jQFwojOks94?t=17m47s
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a4/Ascent_poster.jpg
in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ascent
Turn on the Closed Captions (CC) to know the countries where the images were filmed and the first name of the interviewees.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/ShttAt5xtto?t=1h20m1s <- HUMAN, a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (What makes us Human?)
Alternative VIDEO source: https://youtu.be/ZoHWcpz5oZM?t=1h20m1s <-
"[...] He had a puckish streak. Once a woman invited him and Mr. Higginbotham to a party at her parents’ house. Her father kept tropical fish. She showed George Bell the tank. When he admired a distinctive fish, she said, “Oh, that’s an expensive one.” He picked up a net, caught the fish and swallowed it.
One day the friends were moving a financial firm. After they had fitted the desks into the new offices, George Bell slid notes into the drawers, writing things like: “I’m madly in love with you. Meet me at the water cooler.” Or: “There’s a bomb under your chair. Your next move might be your last.”
Dumb pranks. Big George being Big George. [...]"
FULL TEXT: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/dying-alone-in-new-york-city.html?_r=1
E resto.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/2YNqmrvdmO8?t=6m2s <- Stanford Psychologist Dr. Phil Zimbardo and Director Kyle Patrick Alvarez visit Google to talk about their new film, "The Stanford Prison Experiment" (2015)
(Philip Zimbardo) - Don't be stupid. It could never happen here...
(Stanley Milgram) - I bet they said the exact same thing before it happened...
Philip Zimbardo summarizes this experiment in one decisive statement: "Most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves."
in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420293/reviews
VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6z3LsUp35Y&list=PLEDACC0353715E483&t=28m28s <- Hitler's Children - Education [S1 Ep3] - "[...] It didn't fit the Picture at all. [...]" (Joachim Baumann's oral testimony)
Hitlers Kinder (TV Mini-Series 2000)- Education [S1,Ep3] - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3593178/
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/cfPEyJ5KoBU?t=38m20s <- The World at War (TV Mini-Series 1973) - (ep. 18: Occupation: Holland - 1940-1944) - R.M. van der Veen testimony
Que significa ser humano?
Ser humano tem também é inerentemente uma potencialidade [que os animais (ainda?) não atingiram] ou tem de haver concretização?
Um extraterrestre com idênticas capacidades cognitivas (basta para se ser considerado de "nível humano"? Segundo este critério haveria humanos genéticos que seriam não-humanos...) não seria geneticamente humano... mas também não está no "nível animal" de "humanidade"...
Os humanos são o referencial com o qual todos os outros seres são comparados? Relativamente a que características?
...
"[...] seminários de Derrida publicados em L’animal donc que je suis (2006), uma das estações obrigatórias no acesso à questão da política e do direito do animal e à política da relação entre o homem e o animal. Derrida pensa aí toda a questão animal enquanto questão também política e revê o tradicional “limite abissal” entre o homem e o animal, partindo de um episódio pessoal, da experiência de um olhar do qual se sentiu objecto: ao sair do banho, nu, e no quarto, um pudor fê-lo prestar atenção ao facto de estar a ser observado pelo seu gato. A experiência de Derrida foi a de ver que aquele gato o via, o olhava, e por esse olhar ele sentiu-se exposto na sua nudez. [...]"
TEXTO INTGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/homens-e-animais-1672985
"[...] tensão humanidade/animalidade que as fotografias expõem, isto é, aquela que nos leva a uma possível política da animalidade e a uma política animal. E essa política começa pela contestação de um “traço distintivo” do homem. Derrida “desconstruiu” essa especificidade partindo de um episódio pessoal: ao sair do banho, nu, sentiu que estava a ser olhado pelo seu gato e experimentou o sentimento de pudor. Nesse olhar, ele viu que o homem não tem a exclusividade do olhar sobre as outras espécies (e aqui o fotógrafo João Tabarra tem que se confrontar com este desafio: haverá algo mais antropocêntrico que o olhar fotográfico?). [...]"
TEXTO INTGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/culturaipsilon/noticia/sob-o-signo-da-animalidade-1714645
ERRATA:
Ser humano é inerentemente uma potencialidade [que os animais (ainda?) não atingiram] ou tem de haver concretização? Potencialidade de quê, concretização de quê?
"[...] Até aos cinco anos, não. Depois pus-me a fazer perguntas muito irritantes para a minha mãe, as minhas irmãs mais velhas. "Porque é que a colher se chama colher?" Não encontrava que entre a palavra "colher" e a colher houvesse uma relação evidente. Claro que esta pergunta não tem resposta imediata, a não ser dizer que é uma convenção - o que não chega para nada. A vida humana é toda convenção. [...] Tenho um grande defeito: não quero aprender através de alguém que me diga: "Faz-se assim." Queria descobrir. Por isso é que posso esperar 20 anos. Não quero que me digam: "Não percebes, mas é isto." É uma machadada em mim... Não tem nada que ver com orgulho. Nada, nada, nada. Tem que ver com uma autodescoberta que acabava de perder. [...]"
TEXTO INTEGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/temas/jornal/de-onde-vem-27360016
O seguinte episódio seria menos aceitável se se tratasse de um membro humano da família? Os membros animais da família são comummente (desejavelmente?) mais dispensáveis?
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/NWGs9UM8ynY?t=13m9s <- Ep. FAMINE (starvation)
Author movie: Leningrad Under Siege (Kultura Channel 2003)
Narrator: Daniil Granin
Written by Bella Kurkova
Director: Ludmila Gladkova
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/d_ffla6X4Ps?list=PLDF7B08FF8564D1FE&t=9m14s <- PowerPoint acerca da qualidade dos prazeres (versus quantidade) - in 8. Adam Smith: The Invisible Hand
O professor Iván Szelényi comenta o texto do PowerPoint: "[...] All right, and then a bit on quality of pleasures. Right? Really the question is what kind of pleasure satisfies us, rather than just the quantity. And I think this is a very powerful point. Well few humans would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals. Right? No intelligent being would consent to be a fool, even though they should be persuaded that a fool is better satisfied than a lot of man; it's easier to satisfy occasionally a fool. And this is really beautiful: "It's better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." Right? "Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Bingo, right? He got it. I think that's very beautifully done, powerfully done. Think about it. Very hard to disagree with this. Right? You want to be Socrates and dissatisfied, rather than just being satisfied by your needs. [...]"
FULL TRANSCRIPT (no final da página): http://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151/lecture-8#transcript
"[...] uma menina inteligente de apenas 4 anos. Se a ajudarmos e educarmos, no futuro ela pode ser médica, professora, cientista. Em vez disso, ela continua naquele campo” [...]"
TEXTO INTEGRAL: http://www.publico.pt/mundo/noticia/quis-salvar-bahar-da-selva-de-calais-e-acabou-acusado-de-apoio-a-imigracao-ilegal-1720242?page=-1
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