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On ideologies (2)

“Four main classes of explanation have been most frequently employed: the cathartic, the morale, the solidarity, and the advocatory. By the “cathartic explanation” is meant the venerable safety-valve or scapegoat theory. Emotional tension is drained off by being displaced onto symbolic enemies (“The Jews,” “Big Business,” “The Reds,” and so forth). The explanation is as…
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On ideologies

“It is when neither a society’s most general cultural orientations nor its most down-to-earth, “pragmatic” ones suffice any longer to provide an adequate image of political process that ideologies begin to become crucial as sources of sociopolitical meanings and attitudes. In one sense, this statement is but another way of saying that ideology is a…
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Quote of the day

“It is thus very naive to look for ethnology in the Savages or in some Third World – it is here, everywhere, in the metropolises, in the White community, in a world completely cataloged and analyzed, then artificially resurrected under the auspices of the real, in a world of simulation, of the hallucination of truth,…
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Quote of the day

“I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast. I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatize, and deny. (…) I believe that…
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Quotes of the day

“Words! Words! The Way is beyond language, for in it there is no yesterday no tomorrow no today! “Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.” “Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand.” “The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not…
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Quotes of the day

“Politics and religion are both expressions of our underlying moral psychology, and an understanding of that psychology can help to bring people together.” “(…) when a group of people make something sacred, the members of the cult lose the ability to think clearly about it. Morality binds and blinds. The true believers produce pious fantasies…
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Quote of the day

“The way we use language to describe the Other is a large part of what gives that Other their humanity.” Toward Eternity – Anton Hur
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New month, new book

This coming Thursday, 19.12. at 19:00 EET, join me and other authors in my hometown of Timisoara, Romania to launch a book that talks about the city’s hidden spots and secret moments. UndergroundTM – Orasul care nu se vede, now in its third edition. My short prose, A Tramcar Called December (Un tramvai numit decembrie)…
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Feminist Haiku

when you cannot choose, so you strive to be chosen: your name is woman.
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Election Haiku

seduced by fiction, we end up devoured by the dry, bitter truth.
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Quote of the day

“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved. I have shirked the duty of coming to a conclusion upon these two questions –…
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Quote of the day

“Fiction is strongest when it launches a moral question. When it goes out and seeks to answer. The questions that we couldn’t ask in life because the costs would be too much. Fiction and narrative art give us a vicarious opportunity to see these questions play out, at no true cost to our own.” –…
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