SUEÑO O REALIDAD (III) ("AULD LANG SYNE"; SORIA (1-01-2014)
There is a remarkable picture by the painter Kramskoy, called Contemplation.
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have mercy upon all of them,
have all those unhappy and turbulents souls in Thy keeping,
and set them in the right path.
All ways are Thine
Save them according to Thy wisdom
Thou art love
Jonas Mekas - Walden (Excerpt) from Re:Voir Video on Vimeo.
"Y ella , testaruda, repetía:
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No tengo ningún linaje
Sólo el del sol y la fábula"
("Poema sin héroe")
@GRDecter pic.twitter.com/LrZBp0w1xt
— Guillermo Ruiz Zapatero (@ruiz_zapatero) December 22, 2022
"SOVEREIGN IS HE WHO DECIDES ON THE EXCEPTION"
CARL SCHMITT (POLITICAL THEOLOGY)
SOBERANO ES EL QUE DECIDE SOBRE LA EXCEPCIÓN. LA EXCEPCIÓN ES UNA ACELERACIÓN. SOBERANO ES EL QUE DECIDE SOBRE LA ACELERACIÓN MEDIANTE LA EXCEPCIÓN
Bertrand Russell, who was beyond the age of liability for military service but an ardent pacifist (a rare combination), turned sharply on me one afternoon and said " Tell me, if a company of men of yor regiment were brought along to break a strike of munition makers and the munition makers refused to submitt, would you order the men to fire?" I said: " Yes, if everything else failed. It would be no worse than shooting Germans, really." He was surprised and asked. " Would your men obey you?" "Of course they would", I said; "they loathe munition makers and would be only too glad of a chance to shoot a few. They think that they're all skrim-shankers"."But they realize that the war's all wicked nonsense?" "Yes, as well as I do". He could not undersad my attitude.
(Robert Graves, Goodbye to all that, page 309)
The first world war was a kind of cultural suicide that destroyed Europe’s eminence. Europe’s leaders sleepwalked – in the phrase of historian Christopher Clark – into a conflict which none of them would have entered had they foreseen the world at war’s end in 1918. In the previous decades, they had expressed their rivalries by creating two sets of alliances whose strategies had become linked by their respective schedules for mobilisation. As a result, in 1914, the murder of the Austrian Crown Prince in Sarajevo, Bosnia by a Serb nationalist was allowed to escalate into a general war that began when Germany executed its all-purpose plan to defeat France by attacking neutral Belgium at the other end of Europe.
The nations of Europe, insufficiently familiar with how technology had enhanced their respective military forces, proceeded to inflict unprecedented devastation on one another. In August 1916, after two years of war and millions in casualties, the principal combatants in the West (Britain, France and Germany) began to explore prospects for ending the carnage. In the East, rivals Austria and Russia had extended comparable feelers. Because no conceivable compromise could justify the sacrifices already incurred and because no one wanted to convey an impression of weakness, the various leaders hesitated to initiate a formal peace process. Hence they sought American mediation. Explorations by Colonel Edward House, President Woodrow Wilson’s personal emissary, revealed that a peace based on the modified status quo ante was within reach. However, Wilson, while willing and eventually eager to undertake mediation, delayed until after the presidential election in November. By then the British Somme offensive and the German Verdun offensive had added another two million casualties.
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The Great War went on for two more years and claimed millions more victims, irretrievably damaging Europe’s established equilibrium. Germany and Russia were rent by revolution; the Austro-Hungarian state disappeared from the map. France had been bled white. Britain had sacrificed a significant share of its young generation and of its economic capacities to the requirements of victory. The punitive Treaty of Versailles that ended the war proved far more fragile than the structure it replaced.
Does the world today find itself at a comparable turning point in Ukraine as winter imposes a pause on large-scale military operations there?
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The preferred outcome for some is a Russia rendered impotent by the war. I disagree. For all its propensity to violence, Russia has made decisive contributions to the global equilibrium and to the balance of power for over half a millennium. Its historical role should not be degraded. Russia’s military setbacks have not eliminated its global nuclear reach, enabling it to threaten escalation in Ukraine. Even if this capability is diminished, the dissolution of Russia or destroying its ability for strategic policy could turn its territory encompassing 11 time zones into a contested vacuum. Its competing societies might decide to settle their disputes by violence. Other countries might seek to expand their claims by force. All these dangers would be compounded by the presence of thousands of nuclear weapons which make Russia one of the world’s two largest nuclear powers.
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“At the end was the european who lost the last two worldwide wars. Should her bear the inverse fate of a mythic character: Saturn devoured by their sons?”
Ernst Jünger
They killed him once and they killed him twice
Killed him like a human sacrifice
The day that they killed him, someone said to me, "Son
the age of the Antichrist has just only begun"
Air Force One comin' in through the gate
Johnson sworn in at 2:38
Let me know when you decide to throw in the towel
It is what it is, and it's murder most foul
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Play "Marching Through Georgia" and "Dumbarton's Drums"
Play darkness and death will come when it comes
Play "Love Me or leave Me" by the Great Bud Powell
Play "The Blood-Stained Banner, Play "Murder Most Foul"
Bob Dylan, (Roough and Rowdy ways, Murder Most Foul, Columbia 2020)
TURNING
Going too fast for myself I
missed
more than I think I can remember
almost everything it seems
sometimes
and yet there are chances that come back
that I did not notice when
they stood
where I could have reached out and touched them
this morning the black
Belgian shepherd dog
still young looking up and saying
Are you ready this time
–W. S. Merwin, from his
book The Moon Before Morning
Do not trouble,Make yourself quite at home. And, above all, do not be ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all.
Lo que te parece malo de ti crecerá más puro por el mero hecho de tu observación. Evita el miedo, también, aunque el miedo es solamente la consecuencia de cada clase de falsedad.
POR QUÉ DEBERÍA DUDARSE QUE EL COVID-19 SEA UN SUCESO NATURAL
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microbiome in Ecosystem 2.0)
Y me dormí, orgulloso de no haberle robado el pan a mi compañero.#VarlamShalámov (@Elpanajeno (1967)) https://t.co/mQoYUKrr8Z
— Guillermo Ruiz Zapatero (@ruiz_zapatero) December 11, 2022
"JUEGO DE UNA OCUPACIÓN LIBRE DESPROVISTA DE TODO INTERÉS INMEDIATO Y DE TODA UTILIDAD, ESENCIALMENTE SUPERFICIAL Y QUE SIN EMBARGO POR ESTE MOVIMIENTO DE SUPERFICIE ES CAPAZ DE ABSORBER TODO EL SER"
BLANCHOT (Jose María Ripalda, Filosofía en tiempo de descuento o de Hegel a la velocidad de la luz (2022))
EL LUGAR DE LA FILOSOFÍA EN LA POLIS NO ME PARECE SER EL AYUNTAMIENTO, SINO MÁS BIEN LOS PARQUES Y JARDINES. HACE VIVIBLE LA CIUDAD, PERO NI LA DIRIGE NI LA CONSTITUYE. ESO SÍ, SU AUSENCIA ES UN SIGNO DE DESGRACIA
(José María Ripalda, Ob. cit.)
Obedece, pero piensa, decía Kant. Nos queda la filosofía. Pero. ¿es que obedecer y pensar son posibles a la vez?
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La guerra es el abismo que tira de la Humanidad, la plasmación totalizadora del democrático belli omnium, aunque tratemos de situarla en las anécdotas de los telediarios. Y la ruina montium rd cada vez más nuestro paisaje
(José María Ripalda, Ob. cit.)
#RAUGUERRAGARRIDOhttps://t.co/8dYwDZjH5M
Definición de soledad del libro (página 19):
“pertinaz presencia del carácter”
Tributo al pasado
Leído “La estrategia del outsider o la vuelta al mundo deNaraya Sola” de Raúl Guerra Garrido https://t.co/BEqTHMLSDx— Guillermo Ruiz Zapatero (@ruiz_zapatero) December 3, 2022
Le professeur émérite à l'université de Kyoto dit ses 4 vérités au Ministère de la Santé
"La moitié des décès suite à la vaccination sont dus à des lésions cardiovasculaires et cardiaques"
"Vous ignorez la science, la médecine et laissez les soins s'effondrer! C'est un désastre..."
"Vous dépensez des milliards pour le vaccin et forcez les gens à se l'injecter"
"(Vos scientifiques) ne sont pas des scientifiques, mais des fossoyeurs de la science qui s'arrangent avec la vérité, avec un mépris total pour la science et la médecine!"
Masanori Fukushima, Japanese physician, biochemist, oncologist, medical educator. Named One of Outstanding Young Persons of the World, Junior Chamber Internat, 1986. Member Japanese Cancer Association (Prize award 1985), American Association for Cancer Research, American Society Clinical Oncology.
Fukushima, Masanori was born on November 30, 1948 in Nagoya, Japan. Son of Jiro and Saeko Fukushima.
Doctor of Medicine, Nagoya University, 1973; Doctor of Philosophy, Kyoto University, Japan, 1979.
Assistant professor School Medicine
Hamamatsu (Japan) University, 1976-1978. Section head Aichi Cancer
Center, Nagoya, 1978-2000. Professor Kyoto University Graduate School
Medicine, Japan, since 2000.
Visiting assistant professor Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1980-1981.
Member Japanese Cancer Association (Prize award 1985), American Association for Cancer Research, American Society Clinical Oncology.
