Yes, Ernst Jandl: Humanityyyyyy, we certainly could use a little bit of it. Since the attack of Hamas, I no longer know what this is supposed to be. It becomes a piece of paper on which many beautiful things have been written and then set on fire. And then the ashes, as perhaps in the case of Arthur Schnitzler’s divorce from his wife Olga before a Munich Rabbinic Court, the ashes were ground above the heads of the participants.
Day: 21 November 2023
Georges Bensoussan: “Let’s stop seeing the Arab-Israeli conflict through the Western prism of victimhood
(…) To everyone’s misfortune, this conflict is mired in what Wilhelm Reich called the “emotional plague”, the reign of labile emotion which, with no regard for truth, opens the way to passion, entirely devoted to the affirmation of convictions where Nietzsche saw the opposite of truth. When, in our ‘society of the spectacle’, emotion becomes spectacle, tears blur the issues and make the origins of chaos disappear.