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janmaru

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October 8, 2020 - 6:16 am

I wonder if any activity in this Forum has been pushed forward in compliance with the freedom of criticism.  

When the narration of facts is taken from news, or better official public sources, or academic papers and is not instrumental to your arguments, or in support of personal evaluations, that’s not criticism. 

In short, criticism is what you see, your point of view.

In 1960, when Eichmann was sedated by an Israeli doctor of the Mossad team and dressed as a flight attendant and smuggled out of Argentina in an airplane that took off for Israel, stopping in Dakar, a fake truth was fabricated to hide a clear violation of Argentina’s sovereign rights.

Israeli representative Golda Meir claimed that the abductors were not Israeli agents but private individuals and so the incident was only an “isolated violation of Argentine law.”

For the occasion, in New York, someone showed up at a party with a pin that said: “I like Eich.” Everybody was thrilled and hilarity exploded. The only one not to laugh was the humorist Jules Feiffer. 

“Come on, Jules, don’t you find it funny?” was asked.

“Only up to the first five million.”

So, what’s the point?

Since the only form of participation is affirmative and denies any answer or contradiction, anyone is left speechless.

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janmaru

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October 10, 2020 - 4:01 pm

The first part defines Criticism. It looks like the Author wants to pick on some Blog’s members and accuse them of being carrying on facts or supposed facts without even tainting them with their feelings.

The fact is that everything is borrowed from somewhere else, nothing is original. Renowned philosopher U.G. (read “iuggi” by his friends) Krishnamurti explains this in clear words: “The knowledge–that is all that is there. The “me”, “psyche”, “mind”, “I”, or whatever you want to call it is nothing else than the totality of the inherited knowledge passed on to us from generation to generation, mostly through education. […] All this is not to say that we can know anything about thought. We can’t. You become conscious of thought only when you make it an object of thought, otherwise, you don’t even know you are thinking. We use thought only to understand something out there, to remember something, or to achieve something. Otherwise, we don’t even know if thought is there or not.”

 

The second part talks about the lies brought up by the Israeli Government in order to cover the Eichmann plot. But the point is about truth. If Argentine and the World Community accepts at the end, the story, who cares how things were really carried on. Along with Reality, a parallel highway is covered by humans, an arbitrary one.

When Jules Feiffer is asked why he does refute to understand the sign “I like Eich.” as an ironical sign, Jules affirms that even a signifier has its moral limits of interpretations. He is covering the same ground as the Israeli Government.

 

So moral necessity becomes the measure of arbitrariness in nature.

And by converse, since arbitrariness is affirmative and denies any answer or contradiction, anyone is left speechless.

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