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‘Destructive madness’ – SWISSINFO on 01/06/2021

January 8, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Over at SWISSINFO is a telling summary of the Swiss newspaper editorials concerning the mob at the US Capitol on 01/06/2021: Swiss Perspectives The Tages-Anzeiger said: “If there’s one positive aspect to the storming of Congress, it’s that whoever still goes along with Trump’s insanity will now go down with him. In that respect, the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Blick, democracy, Donald Trump, Le Temps, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, NZZ, Swiss papers, Tages-Anzeiger, US Capitol riot

John Berger strikes again …

April 7, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I was reading an excerpt from John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, he writes about advertising here, (where you can read the whole excerpt) and below is the paragraph on glamour evolving to realized man overthrowing capitalism. Quite the leap! Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society … [Read more…]

Posted in: Thinking about Tagged: capitalism, democracy, envy, Glamour, John Berger, powerlessness

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