26 May 2016
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Ingmar Bergman
The Body, the Soul and Child amid Collapse of Civilization into Everyday Survival and War Marginalizing and Minimizing Life The silence of human soul as a political problem is the last version of and, at the same time, a radical shift from the issue of the “silence of Godâ€, which Bergman developed earlier in his […]
14 May 2016
Posted by Victor-Katia as “Bless the Beast and Children†by Stanley Kramer (1971), Discussion and Mind-Probing, Reviews of Films
In “Bless…†Kramer takes a very risky stance as a film director (who needs a solid financial backing) – he offers to the viewers a choice – either to identify with the characters who are similar with them – with the adults of this world, or betray themselves and identify with… the children in a […]
07 May 2016
Posted by Victor-Katia as Democracy And Anti-democracy Inside Democracy, Discussion and Mind-Probing, Sociological essays
Notes On Strategies And Tools of Antidemocratic Efforts Amid Democracy Concentrated wealth creates concentrated power, which legislates further concentration of wealth, which then concentrates more power… Noam Chomsky We’ll focus here on two tools/strategies of subverting democracy in US after WWII without using antidemocratic ideology and more – by using pro-democratic phraseology. It’s, as if, […]
01 May 2016
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, paul klee
Death, After Death, After Life – The Artist Belongs to All the Three Domains Paul Klee, “Stern Visageâ€, 1939 Person who has died is crossing the famous river separating the kingdom of the living from that of the dead (separating life from being dead/deadness that is somehow trying to live, separating light from darkness, hope […]