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The council and it's predecessors have been a corrupt monsters since at least the 1950s if not since the metropolitan boroughs of Chelsea and Kensington were created in 1900, if not the vestries before that...
Being a Jew is not intrinsically an homogenising force. It's the opposite. There're Jews that produced their own faith and then there're those, that rebelled against it ...and produced Christianity. ( Maybe even that other one? ) Then those in opposition to both, who invented modern Socialism. In contrast to those... that became industrialists, lenders and overt Capitalists. And again... to those that advocate atheism and secular societies. Or those that try to socialise Capitalism on a cultural level through social justice. You would be hard pressed to find any Jew in agreement about anything. Survival in groups, is telling people what they want to hear, but more importantly, what they need to hear. The Jews unique ability is to tell convincing stories, people are not only willing to blindly follow, but to lose themselves within. To confuse fiction with reality. A story becoming a protective fabric, in order to ward off reality. And if you're not a Jew... you will own at least one of their stories close to your heart. You are in fact, near meaningless without Jews and all of their very tall tales.
You know it's funny all these hard left marxists seem to really live living in western countries. Id have at least a little respect for someone if they went and lived under communism, instead of living comfortably in the free and west. F Hobsbawm and his nonsense.
Great translation BUT still cannot pronounce Greek words and names correctly sorry, but it will NOT do, for 50 years I have been listening to wrongly pronounced Greek. People only now are beggining to pronounce my name almost correctly. Achilles Pelias? Please....
I notice that several people in the comments mention that they have a hard time understanding Spinoza. No shame in that, because Spinoza is not easy. This video is very nice and it's done very well. If anyone wants to discuss Spinoza with someone in order to learn more, feel free to contact me. I am deeply into Spinoza and I gladly help those who want to learn.
What a bunch of (semiotically and, more generally, culturally) anachronistic, incongruous, conformist, ideologized, and prejudiced stereotypes one happens to find in a prestigious journal like the London Review of Books… 🤔🙋🏻♂
I absolutely love 'The Uncommon Reader' - recommending it, re-reading it and now, unable to read, listening to the matchless Bennett's audio version. Like Gallico's 'Snow Goose' a book giving endless pleasure. Thank you Alan Bennett for your readings.
_Trinidad Village_ by H & F Herskovits, 1947. _Behold the West Indies_ Amy Oakley, 1941. _A Brighter Sun_ by Samuel Selvon, 1952 (a novel set in 1940).
listen closely-- it's fast and complicated, but hear it like some combination of philosophy and poetry-- or better, just listen the playfulness in the ideas. And for all the ideas too difficult, or given too fast, to comprehend, just enjoy the voice, the words, the sounds. Like all of Phillip's talks, there is so much to learn, if given the chance.
