Donald Rumsfeld’s “Imaginary Thinking” – Quotes From Rumsfeld’s Memos “Snowflake” in Harper’s Magazine
14 May 2011
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How to Get Pleasure from Avoiding Reality While Being In the Midst of It “May 29, Subject: Important Countries We ought to give some thought to picking eight or ten important countries, asking ourselves what we think we would like them to look like five or ten years from now, and then fashioning plans to […]
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Letters to Readers
- 1. Obama, Bush and the 'Armoured Self'
- 2. Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism
- 3. Artificially Induced Hunger for Currency and Consumption
- 4. Ideology in SRussia (Soviet Russia) and Bushmerica (America according to Bushmericans)
- 5. To those Who are Trapped into Mass-cultural Satisfactions and Consolations
- 6. Liberal Psyche and the Destiny of Liberalism in U.S.
- 7. The Destruction of the Humane Concept of Human Happiness
- 8. Psychological Roots of Political and Financial Misbehvior
- 9. Psychology of Political, Military and Economic Blunders
Recent Entries
- Artificially Induced Hunger For Currency And Consumption
- Emil Nolde’s “Green Head Above Red Cloak” – Archetypal Image (created by Nolde in this painting) of Father-Nature Differing From And Adding To The Well-known Archetypal Image Of “Mother Nature”
- Emotional Attractiveness of Totalitarianism
- “Muriel, Or The Time Of Return” By Alain Resnais (1964)
- Chaim Soutine’s Two Paintings – “Return from School After The Storm” (1939) And “Children On the Road” (1938) – Soutine – The Unintentional Prophet Of Apocalypse
- Alain Tanner’s “A Flame in My Heart” (1987) – Frustrated and Disoriented Search For Disinterested Existential Togetherness
- “Life and Nothing But/La vie at rien d’autre” (1989) by Bertrand Tavernier
- Wolfgang Paalen’s “Combat Of The Saturnian Princes” (1938) – “Saturnian Princes” As Striking Metaphor Of The “Heads” Of The Social Hierarchy, Making Decisions About Wars, Finances And Societal Life In the Name Of And Instead Of People
- Alan Resnais’ “Muriel, Or the Time of Return/Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour” (1963)* – Ontological Disappearance As A Metaphoric Characterization Of The Loss Of Holistic Personalities/Identities By The Inhabitants Of Today’s Western Post-democracies
- “Baxter, Vera Baxter” by Marguerite Duras (1977)
Recent Comments
- Greg on “The Silence” by Ingmar Bergman (1963)A very enjoyable and enlightening review. I especially appreciate "21st century needs Bergman’s cinema even more than the 20th century did."
- Johan Liebenberg on Semantically sophisticated poster of “Death in Venice”I haven't even read your complete essay, but already I love what I am reading. What a shame that not more people know of your...
- Vanessa on “Confessions of Police Captain to the District Attorney” (1971) by Damiano DamianiIs traini corrupt? Did he have srena dipaluma killed when she called police dept?? Was malta corrupt?
- Justin on Constantin Brancusi’s Sculptural Series “The Kiss” (1907 – 1925): To Be Stuck in Personal relations to the Neglect of Understanding of the Public RealmWell done Victor. Beautifully written. Is it possible for me to know more about you as I would like to reference this in my thesis?
- Gabriele on R. W. Fassbinder’s “The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant” (1972) – The Art And Science Of Amorous Domination (Feminine Touch In A World Of Masculine Competition)I'm always looking for new Petra Von Kant analysis, this is one of the best i've encountered. I was wondering if anyone know where I...
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- Constantin Brancusi’s Sculptural Series “The Kiss” (1907 – 1925): To Be Stuck in Personal relations to the Neglect of Understanding of the Public Realm (21)
- Mary Cassatt‘s Paintings – Mother and Child: The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Mother’s Face (4)
- Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Joseph Stalin (1953) – Stalin As An Object of the Artist’s Contemplation – Simpler than Any Painting, Flatter than Any Sculpture, Ruder Than Any Kitsch – (3)
- Marina Tsvetaeva’s “Ophelia – In Defense of the Queen” (1923) – The Value of Existential Paradox: The Logic of Aesthetic Exception (3)
- Max Ernst’s ‘The Horde’ (1927) provides us with the metaphoric space for better understanding of The Invasion of the Bushmerican Adolfics (2)
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