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"All the names I know from nurse:
Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,
Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,
And the Lady Hollyhock.

Fairy places, Fairy things,
Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,
Tiny trees for tiny dames.
- These must all be Fairy names !"

(from Child's Garden of Verses
by R.L. Stevenson)


"Anyone can write a short-story.
A bad one, I mean."

(R.L. Stevenson)
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"Science without conscience is the Soul's perdition."
- Francois Rabelais, Pantagruel
- Acc to/above is citated from: Medical Apartheid. The dark history of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, by Harriet A. Washington (Doubleday ; 2006 ; p. 1.)

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"In the high society of the first half of the century, marriage, despite it's bestowal status upon the wife, was the most absurdity. Marriage, conferring instanteous rank or money, ... lost most of its prestige and moment right after the wedding. ...By the end of the century, spurred by Rousseau's moralistic Nouvelle Hèloíse, a contrary cult, that of virtue, arose. After 1770 conjugal and maternal love became not merely admissible, but, for some, moral imperatives. ...

[...]
...Rousseau, who sought for himself the crown of morality in ostensibly defending marriage, presents in his Nouvelle Hèloíse the most enticing and extended defense of illicit love ever penned. The root of the problem is that as the century progressed sensibility became confused with morality: passionate feeling, if expressed in a highly civilized mode with grace and nuance, makes us forgive the Rousseau of The Confessions, for example, his pettiness, his jealousies, his betrayals. This moral-amoral byplay, present already in the novels of Richardson, was to be more intense as the century unfolded."
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Madelyn Gutwirth : Madame De Staèl, Novelist. The emergence of the Artist as Woman (10,15.)

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"...As the social contract seems tame in comparison with war, so fucking and sucking come to seem merely nice, and therefore unexciting. ... To be 'nice', as to be civilized, means being alienated from this savage experience - which is entirely staged. [...] The rituals of domination and enslavement being more and more practiced, the art that is more and more devoted to rendering their themes, are perhaps only a logical extension of an affluent society's tendency to turn every part of people's lives into a taste, a choice; to invite them to regard their very lives as a (life) style." - Susan Sontag , on 'Fascinating Fascism' (-74; p 103;104-5 at Under the sign of Saturn)
; "Anyone who cannot give an account to oneself of the past three thousand years remains in darkness, without experience, living from day to day." (Goethe) - as cited by Sontag (on same compile; p. 137.)

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"It is widely accepted that we are now living in the 'Anthropocene', a new geological epoch in which the Earth's ecosystems and climate are being fundamentally altered by the activities of humans. I loathe the term, but I can't deny that it's appropriate."
; (Goulson), Silent Earth : Averting the Insect Apocalypse (2021; p 47.)
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"It is sometimes said that humanity is at war with nature, but the word 'war' implies a two-way conflict. Our chemical onslaught on nature is more akin to genocide. It is small wonder that our wildlife is in decline."
; (Goulson, 2021 ; 118.)
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"If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities." (Voltaire)
- Citated from; (Joy, Melanie), Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows : An Introduction to Carnism(2010; p. 95.)
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"In the presence of the monster, you have eyes and ears for nothing else."
; (Flora Tristan) : London Journal of Flora Tristan: the Aristocracy and the Working Class of England ; 1842-edit. (tr: 1982. ; p. 71.)

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"Every minority invokes justice, and justice is liberty.
A party can be judged of only by the doctrine which
it professes when it is the strongest."
Mdme de Staêl
(on) 'Consideration sur le Révolution de la Francaise' [1818]


7/27/08

Newspost#270708

This weeks a bit more coherent than usually for we´ve not so much concerned on technological frontline (of the net), topics being merely from environmental and foodstuff issues...


The Great White Humpback might have breeded (is speculated), as a new individual albino from is spotted at Great Barrier Reef. It is a common knownledge that whiteness (as lack of pigmentation on skin) is as rare among the animals as human species. However concerning whiteness and large sea habitants(of the Oceans) there seems also to be a some kind of tendency towards fulfilling them with strange requirements of evil and horror... most obvious example being (and perhaps the beginning of this form of horror) Melvilles Moby Dick(p. 1851) , the gigantic white Sperm Whale. Melvilles book carries on with the tension between white whale and whale-hunter captain Ahab, who´s dedicated his remaining three limbs for catching Moby Dick. Book is a symbolical interpretation from struggle of evil and good[as in human and in nature], intensifying to the unavoidable climax(be noted: Spoiler-alert!; if-you-don´t-wish-to-be-told-the-details-skip-over-next-few-sentences :) Most interesting point in Melvilles symbolical tale is that when the Ahabs ship is sunk by the whale, it goes down with its three pagan harpooners in ships mast tops: a caribbean(cannibal), native american and black. So the symbolical horrirying themes in Moby Dick are rising partly from christian - pagan, partly human-nature (mythological) basis. Moby Dick pretty much created the myth of evil and fear connected to the white whale(s), though as the whaling have got banned(for good reason) the book also have got less popular. No reason for that, for also as history fiction it is indeed very worthy reading...And as could be expected, there´s plenty of filmed versions (see IMDB): 1999 flick is best avoided, but 1978, 1956 (Gregory Pecks Ahab) and 1930 versions all seem to be quite appreciated. As a hilarious comparison and in fact a direct loan from Moby Dicks thematics we can take Mickey Mouse comics the Mighty Whale Hunter (1938), though in it whiteness is erranously explained as characteristics typical for female whale. Of course, no mentioning(in the realms of horror) sea animals and whiteness would do without Jaws (1975), deliberously dedicated on Great White sharks. First film in the series it is besides one the most thrilling horror films ever made (the rest are...crap).
The White Humpback has little to fear as to end up in the realm of horrifying stories as Humpbacks are Baleen whales which filter their food from water rather than having any need for frightening tooths. Instead it has more apparently had qualities of becoming a symbol for the preserving of whales. And as such, we can end up this brief glance on whale-fiction and albino whales) - Theres some text about Migaloo, the famous albino Humpback, in Wikipedia under Humpback Whales. Also, the species being most researched of whales, there´s Google maps, statistical data, etc. on OBIS-SEAMAP project, which gathers information ao on humpback whales.


Food...the ever more healthier solutions are found: Beef is acknownledged as most carbon emissions generating manner of food production, energy drinks are a ´risk factor´ for use along with alcoholics, but isn´t it (a bit corny) that Monsanto produced genetically engineered maize (MON 863) contains toxics that are most dangerous for humans - MON 863 was banned by Austria now as well as several other EU-countries earlier. We only wish to remind that when looking back the 1960´s fights against the racism, the New Left and feminists of the 1970s, noted that the biggest mistake was that if they thought they had won, the beast was left alive just to reappear in new more hidden forms later on. Same seems to be true as concerning Monsantos dealings and reappearances on the food production business, which readers can check from the W.Engdahl article in Centre for Research on Globalization.


...transparent society previsited...in close future peole are more and more watched via their phones with bluetooth sensors creating a succesfull net of viewpoints tracking a single phones (and users) movements. But wait! That just already happening according to our newsfeed. And what an individual person can do, surely isn´t impossible for fx governments. While watching the Big Brother watching we lastly have (from external informative sources, not from newsfeed) some key terminology as advisory tips for consumer thinking of obtaining (an environmentally sustainable) new computer: RoHS=(Removal of Hazardous Substances, all the chemicals that companies should remove and substitute to safer alternatives in their production lines in couple years onwards) ; CSR=(Corporate social responsibility, the guideline criteria the companies are to set for themselves to fulfill environmental standars, however all these are voluntarily) ; GSE=(General Specification for the Environment, mainly a HP-brands own test conditioned from third party manufacturers produced parts). Not necessarily the most simple definitions, but at least more understandable than a list of alphabets.


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