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Travel, once thought to be enlightening, broadening and educational, has become nothing more than an experience of shopping, restaurants and hotels.
Monday, March 28, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Notes to be developed:
perceived difference. otherness--difference
"Jewface" as in "Blackface" the face Jews put on when they went on stage...a shallow appearance of Jewishness
Conflicted Jewishness--were the original deniers the second generation Jews of America?
Sense of denying, the actuality of the holocaust, we were unwilling or unable to express/accept our Jewishness,
the showbusiness term, "too Jewish." The second generation actively rejected the foriegnness of their parents.
Hansens Thesis: "The third generation remembers what the second generation forgets."
Notes to be developed:
perceived difference. otherness--difference
"Jewface" as in "Blackface" the face Jews put on when they went on stage...a shallow appearance of Jewishness
Conflicted Jewishness--were the original deniers the second generation Jews of America?
Sense of denying, the actuality of the holocaust, we were unwilling or unable to express/accept our Jewishness,
the showbusiness term, "too Jewish." The second generation actively rejected the foriegnness of their parents.
Hansens Thesis: "The third generation remembers what the second generation forgets."
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
Notes to be developed:
perceived difference. otherness--difference
"Jewface" as in "Blackface" the face Jews put on when they went on stage...a shallow appearance of Jewishness
Conflicted Jewishness--were the original deniers the second generation Jews of America?
Sense of denying, the actuality of the holocaust, we were unwilling or unable to express/accept our Jewishness,
the showbusiness term, "too Jewish." The second generation actively rejected the foriegnness of their parents.
Hansens Thesis: "The third generation remembers what the second generation forgets."
Notes to be developed:
perceived difference. otherness--difference
"Jewface" as in "Blackface" the face Jews put on when they went on stage...a shallow appearance of Jewishness
Conflicted Jewishness--were the original deniers the second generation Jews of America?
Sense of denying, the actuality of the holocaust, we were unwilling or unable to express/accept our Jewishness,
the showbusiness term, "too Jewish." The second generation actively rejected the foriegnness of their parents.
Hansens Thesis: "The third generation remembers what the second generation forgets."
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
"If a lion could talk we could not understand him." Wittgenstein
Maybe this is why liberals and conservative don't seem to understand each other.
"If a lion could talk we could not understand him." Wittgenstein
Maybe this is why liberals and conservative don't seem to understand each other.
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
Hanson's Thesis on immigration: "the third generation remembers what the second forgot."
Hanson's Thesis on immigration: "the third generation remembers what the second forgot."
Saturday, March 12, 2005
BusterStronghart@Gmail.com
These are further thoughts on the posting dated Feb 25.
Death’s dark exile from life and family.
Love’s bright journey
Exiles rooted in sand
Held up in fair air only by a few dry tendrils.
Dada grounded in the joy of doubt.
**
How did we divide away from them? Ambitious to become part of the “other” how did they fail on the one hand to assimilate, while, on the other hand, becoming so much an influence on American-European culture. Where would the twentieth century have gone were it not for Freud, Einstein and Marx? If you think about it there is only one other transforming catalyst of the twentieth century and that would be Darwin, whose work was done in the 19th Century but whose effect, like Marx was felt mainly in the twentieth century.
By the end of the second world war Jews were among the major novelists in America, The film world,as well as the theater were also filled with Jews, and their influence on what became of America should not be underestimated. In medicine and music, in all of the modern media Jews played a major part. The civil rights movement was reinforced (at the least) by Jews, both practicing and secular—and by many who had consciously forgotten their Jewish heritage.
But while ambitious to become part of this culture, we never grafted on to it. The graft remains unhealed and very visible whether we call ourselves Greenberg or Green.
We are the perpetual Dadaists, grounded in the joy of doubt, exiles rooted in sand, held up, only in fair weather, by a few dry tendrils.
Our past has suffered a slow, stoic death. It has been inescapable. There has been the loss, the destruction or dissipation of what once was valued and loved. Now reduced detritus cast on the wind. Everything we love is an unendurably fragile. The personal is always lost.
My veins flow with a ghostly blood that calls their names. But I know nothing of them. I am full of an inaccessible history of everything that happened but it is utterly lost and wasted except for a few mysterious spiritual, unconscious strains of a music barely heard, yet, somehow I still march to it.
These are further thoughts on the posting dated Feb 25.
Death’s dark exile from life and family.
Love’s bright journey
Exiles rooted in sand
Held up in fair air only by a few dry tendrils.
Dada grounded in the joy of doubt.
**
How did we divide away from them? Ambitious to become part of the “other” how did they fail on the one hand to assimilate, while, on the other hand, becoming so much an influence on American-European culture. Where would the twentieth century have gone were it not for Freud, Einstein and Marx? If you think about it there is only one other transforming catalyst of the twentieth century and that would be Darwin, whose work was done in the 19th Century but whose effect, like Marx was felt mainly in the twentieth century.
By the end of the second world war Jews were among the major novelists in America, The film world,as well as the theater were also filled with Jews, and their influence on what became of America should not be underestimated. In medicine and music, in all of the modern media Jews played a major part. The civil rights movement was reinforced (at the least) by Jews, both practicing and secular—and by many who had consciously forgotten their Jewish heritage.
But while ambitious to become part of this culture, we never grafted on to it. The graft remains unhealed and very visible whether we call ourselves Greenberg or Green.
We are the perpetual Dadaists, grounded in the joy of doubt, exiles rooted in sand, held up, only in fair weather, by a few dry tendrils.
Our past has suffered a slow, stoic death. It has been inescapable. There has been the loss, the destruction or dissipation of what once was valued and loved. Now reduced detritus cast on the wind. Everything we love is an unendurably fragile. The personal is always lost.
My veins flow with a ghostly blood that calls their names. But I know nothing of them. I am full of an inaccessible history of everything that happened but it is utterly lost and wasted except for a few mysterious spiritual, unconscious strains of a music barely heard, yet, somehow I still march to it.
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