Fuashizumu jidai no shionizumu
Fuashizumu jidai no shionizumu is the title of the Japanese translation of Lenni Brenner's book, Zionism in the Age of the Dictators.
Came across Brenner on some vaguely anti-semitic site while looking for statistics on Jewish assimilation.
While reading some of his stuff I started to despair that there is any hope of finding any writing that is not biased and idealogical in nature. I feel like I am walking through a Turkish bazaar and everyone is shoving their wares in my face. "Buy my apples, they are the juciest!".
The term ideology, btw, was coined by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, whom Karl Marx called a "fischblütige Bourgeoisdoktrinär" -- a "fish-blooded bourgeois doctrinaire."
How ironic.
Came across Brenner on some vaguely anti-semitic site while looking for statistics on Jewish assimilation.
While reading some of his stuff I started to despair that there is any hope of finding any writing that is not biased and idealogical in nature. I feel like I am walking through a Turkish bazaar and everyone is shoving their wares in my face. "Buy my apples, they are the juciest!".
The term ideology, btw, was coined by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt, whom Karl Marx called a "fischblütige Bourgeoisdoktrinär" -- a "fish-blooded bourgeois doctrinaire."
How ironic.
posted by e-kvetcher at 9:37 AM
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I don't think there is any such thing as a neutral POV. It is made rather impossible by any given commented being a unique individual occupying a unique point in space and time not the same obviously as another given observer. The very act of existence is itself to essentially cause restriction of possibilities of POV.
Also, humans are emotional creatures and nothing is not going to prick some part of them. Even bland things cause a response, in the case of easy listening, sleepiness and sometimes minor irritability.
Zionism. Wow. That's a huge expectation to find a POV that isn't going to be ideological. This would be like trying to find straight leg pants during the late 70s.
Lastly, with regard to the truth, whatever that actually is, and Jews and their responses to the Holocaust as it happened, nothing there is going to be not painful. Humans are imperfect. One of our responses to impending eradication is begging and dealing.
Shock, anger, denial, acceptance. Natural course of human reaction to anything actually. Some of what is in that article you linked to is true, some is not. Both ways, it is going to stir your own emotions.
This is the sort of reason I prefer not to delve into trying to find out the "real story" about a lot of things because the answer will not be what you wanted. Like finding out that the light at the end of the tunnel was Jersey.
While reading some of his stuff I started to despair that there is any hope of finding any writing that is not biased and idealogical in nature.
Try science. A good place to start is one of Natalie Angier's books, like The Canon or Natural Obsessions.
This is the sort of reason I prefer not to delve into trying to find out the "real story" about a lot of things because the answer will not be what you wanted. Like finding out that the light at the end of the tunnel was Jersey.
Yes, this is how I've been feeling lately, but something bothers me about sticking my head in the sand...
Try science.
I am not sure that I agree that scientific writing is not biased or ideological.
I am not sure that I agree that scientific writing is not biased or ideological.
Yeah, but at least it has some basis in reality. Data grounds it. As time goes on, the truth comes out. Less so in other fields.
As time goes on, the truth comes out.
That is true.
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