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On Resentment
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Still, it would be a stretch to say that Zama delves into slavery as economic exploitation.Zama (Photo credit: Strand Releasing)
A young Black Frenchman aims a gun at le flic
that gunned down his friend; a Filipino youth stabs his girlfriend’s
pimp to death; an Argentine colonial official has both his hands axed
off. These are just some of the dramatic scenes in the Brooklyn Academy
of Music’s (BAM) new series, On Resentment,
in dialogue with our time’s own resentful, violent zeitgeist, often in
the context of marginalized communities and racism. Emily Wang and
Matthew Shen Goodman, the editors of Triple Canopy magazine, which co-presented the series with BAM curator Ashley Clark, ask in their online essay, “A Note on Resentment”:
What
are the possibilities and limitations of resentment—as a basis for
thinking, speaking, and writing, establishing intimacy and forging
solidarity? How does resentment shape not only how we speak but what we
say? How is resentment stoked, policed, circulated, and mobilized? How
does resentment channel our attentions and efforts, and to what ends?
absolute power depends on absolute control over knowledge, which in turn necessitates absolute corruption
Think about this
“Politicians, Priests, and psychiatrists often face the same problem: how to find the most rapid and permanent means of changing a man’s belief…The problem of the doctor and his nervously ill patient, and that of the religious leader who sets out to gain and hold new converts, has now become the problem of whole groups of nations, who wish not only to confirm certain political beliefs within their boundaries, but to proselytize the outside world.”
– William Sargant “Battle of the Mind”
Here is where you can find us: https://thebigisms.wordpress.com/2020/11/29/my-white-friend-asked-me-on-facebook-to-explain-white-privilege-i-decided-to-be-honest-yes-magazine/ (we will leave this blog up since there is so much history to read and consider.)
The truth about Jackson’s savagery was just as disturbing as the fake news. After a particularly bloody battle in 1814, Andrew Jackson’s men counted the dead Indians by cutting off their noses. They collected 557 noses. and... (this comment) Jackson ran an ad in the Nashville Gazette, in October, 1804, for the capture of a runaway slave, which stated that in addition to the reward, he would pay an extra $10 per 100 lashes (up to 300), to anyone who willing to inflict them upon his miscreant property. He was known to hold a vengeful lifetime grudge against anyone whom he felt had slighted him, regardless of how minor the supposed offense. His betrayal the Choctow tribe, whom he persuaded to become American allies over the British during the war of 1812, culminated in the “Indian Removal Act” (Trail of Tears), of which he took personal responsiblity to see implemented, resulted in the death of thousands of men, women and children. It’s no surprise that the current occupant of the Wh
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