Viola Tricolor

It might be the combination of jab and gym, at least that's what a pharmacist told me regarding the Covid-shot: Physical activity could make it worse. I was so exhausted that I didn't need to be told that twice.

I don't have children but I thought the same: Would that be the pedagogical lesson I'd draw from this?!

Hannah Arendt circa 1930; she is sitting, and looking off into the distance, she is holding a cigarette in her left hand, and her hands are clasped together. The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man. Yet to turn our backs on the destructive forces of the century is of little avail. The trouble is that our period has so strangely intertwined the good with the bad that without the imperialists' ‘expansion for expansion's sake,’ the world might never have become one; without the bourgeoisie's political device of ‘power for power's sake,’ the extent of human strength might never have been discovered; without the fictitious world of totalitarian movements, in which with unparalleled clarity the essential uncertainties of our time have been spelled out, we might have been driven to our doom without ever becoming aware of what has been happening. And if it is true that in the final stages of totalitarianism an absolute evil appears (absolute because it can no longer be deduced from humanly comprehensible motives), it is also true that without it we might never have known the truly radical nature of Evil. Hannah Arendt, (1906-1975) The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).

This is chilling...

The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.
(Excerpt)

~ Hannah Arendt ~

Isn't that the casus belli?

I've no idea which one this is, these fights occurred more than once, often in the context of someone making a remark on the freshness of fish.

Plus these ghastly long-term ramifications like increased risk for cancer, diabetes, dementia and more but I'd be glad already if we could acknowledge the present and obvious desaster that's right in front of our eyes.

Image from an Asterix and Obelix comic in which the men of the village fight with each other, looks chaotic.

I have no idea what the current political set-up is in France but I learn so much new vocabulary by reading French accounts I follow, so many useful swearwords 🤗

I know nobody wants to hear it but I don’t think you can make meaningful sense of how insane everything is now without accounting for the obscene burden of illness we’ve been forced to bear, the social prohibition on acknowledging it, and the attendant post-viral sequelae like brain fog and fatigue

I'd love to switch it off entirely, too!

The result is stunning! I can almost feel the silky chocolate mousse on my tongue! Don't worry about your pictures, if someone asked me I would have guessed they were made by a professional photographer. (I maybe underestimate people because my own skillset is rather limited.)

Zweig in "Die Welt von Gestern" writes about something similar, poets, writers, scholars stopped talking about the subjects they were interested in because the introduction of passports (and more) meant problems and paperwork. Let's drown people in admin. so they cannot think anymore, it seems.

Wow, this looks really great! The images capture the cake so well!

Thank you for sharing your recipe! I love baking, it's one of the things that don't turn out well always but I have a lot of energy for this activity, regardless of the outcome.

I always stumble when I read "perished" in these posts. Creating circumstances that were unsurvivable is murder, too.

... to Germany: p. 54 😬

" (...) news about the domain where history and human rights intersect, in particular about the censorship of history and
the persecution of historians, archivists, and archaeologists around the globe, as reported by various human rights organizations and other sources."

Scrolled immediately ...

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In Our Time - Hannah Arendt (Archive Episode) - BBC Sounds Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas and life of Hannah Arendt, political philosopher

Why the past matters. Chilling testimony from Hannah Arendt writing in the middle of the last century on how darkness thrives when we stop listening to each other’s stories

I enjoyed zooming in on these gorgeous flowers and fruits here: www.mauritshuis.nl/en/our-colle...

Look at these berries!

How gorgeous are these flowers! Thank you for sharing it!

The photos you post look like paradise - and then you write about eagles and chickens and generators and it becomes clear how hard this paradise is won.

Your food often has a sculptural quality, like little artworks!

Aufarbeitung? Skepsis zur Waffenruhe im West-Eastern-Divan-Orchestra

Interview at @deutschlandfunk.de.web.brid.gy Kultur.

There is no possibility to even imagine reconciliation or peace without accountability and justice

www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/aufarbeitung...

But that's not unhinged!

(Or is it?)

Ha, "grim slog" - but you're right, it's definitely not a book for a big audience.

“The same people who did the killing and financed the killing and justified the killing and turned away from the killing will congratulate themselves on doing the right thing.”

- Omar El Akkad

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: If Democrats can't draw the Line at Genocide, they can't Draw the Line at Democracy Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) - Ta-Nehisi Coates and Angela Davis spoke at the University of Michigan's Rackham Auditorium on February 19, 2025, interviewed by my colleague Angela Dillard, the vice pro...

Summary with links to the orignal sources:

Democracy & genocide:

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates