The Best Things to Do in Seattle This Week: August 17-20, 2020 – TheStranger.com
Posted: August 17, 2020 at 4:56 pm
A new week in Phase 2 means a mixed bag of events happening virtually, in-person (modified to accommodate physical distancing, of course), and, sometimes, a combination of both. We're here to guide you through our top picks in every genrefrom the Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour to a Naked Giants Album Release Party, and from a Town Hall talk with wildlife biologist Jonathan Slaght to the release of Chuck's Hop Shop's new Pay the Fee IPA benefiting King County Equity Now. In addition, check out our guides to supporting black-owned businesses and artists in Seattle, educating yourself through anti-racism resources, and donating to social justice causes. Find even more events on our complete streaming events calendar and our resistance & solidarity calendar, and check back on Friday for a roundup of the best local virtual events this weekend.
Mushroom Foraging for Beginners PNW fungi resource organizationSalish Mushrooms will lead a "fast-paced introduction" into mushroom-foraging. You'll learn about 10 types of mushrooms for beginners and where to find them, key characteristics to help with identification, and common poisonous mushrooms.
Auction of Washington Wines Online Auction & Virtual Gala Bid on a variety of wine-themed events and experiences through this live virtual auction and gala, whose proceeds will benefitSeattle Children's and Washington State University's Wine Science Research (who knew!).
POP+ Punk Book Club: 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' Join an online discussion of Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, the wonderful memoir by living Pacific Northwest punk legend Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, as part of MoPOP's Pop+ Punk series.
Spirits of Latin America Book Talk With Ivy Mix Bartender Ivy Mix will discuss her new book about her travels through Latin America to research the histories and cultures of agave, cane, and grape spirits, and will teach you how to make aNovo Fogo Organic Cachaa- based cocktail from the book. For the Seattle edition, cocktail bar Navy Strength will have cocktail kits inspired by the book available for pickup, and the first 30 people who register will get a free copy of the book.
Climate Change Impacts on PNW Trees Symposium ThePacific Northwest International Society of ArboricultureandUW Botanic Gardens will co-host this virtualsymposium on the myriad ways in which climate change is affecting trees in our region. Professional arborists and those interested in environmental activism are encouraged to attend and ask questions.
The Science Inside Climate Pledge Arena You may have read about Amazon's plan for the former Key Arena, which will be home to the newly monikered local NHL team the Seattle Kraken, when they announced it back in Junethe company's "zero-carbon certified" stadium will feature 100% renewable electricity, "the greenest ice in the NHL," locally sourced food, solar panels, andon-site stormwater retention for landscaping. But how?! The Pacific Science Center will break down how all of these environmentally conscious amenities will work.
The True Story of Tommy Tucker The Museum of Flight, in partnership with the Smithsonians National Museum of American History, interrupts your Tuesday-night routine to tell you about a very important celebrity squirrel namedTommyTucker,who not only traveled the country performing tricks but also helped sell war bonds while sporting the latest women's fashion accessories.
Live on KEXP at Home: serpentwithfeet "The Pentecostal-forged queerness of Sylvester meets the gossamer harmonies of P.M. Dawns Prince Be and the sexualized spirituality of Prince," wrote former Stranger contributor KathyFennessy ofJosiah Wise's (aka serpentwithfeet) debut album. "It's rich and full, yet as intimate as a prayer." TheBaltimore-born artist will perform live on KEXP's YouTube channel.
George Dyson with Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Technology Beyond Programmable Control Author and historian George Dyson traces the history of humans' relationship to machines inAnalogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control. He'll join Town Hall in conversation with software engineerBlaise Aguera y Arcas.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom with Keenan Norris After being deported from the US, an undocumented college student travels back toCalifornia from Guatemala with a group of other migrants fleeing violence in their home country in Micheline Marcom's The New American. The Saudi Arabia-born, LA-bred author will discuss her latest novel withKeenan Norris (Brother and the Dancer).
Suffrage Special Whistle Stop Tour Thiseight-episode video series explores Washington State's role in the national women's suffrage movement, highlighting the local changemakers who led the way. Why a whistle-stop tour? The theme is based on the 1909 "Suffrage Special" train, which toted local and national suffragists across the country.
Virtual Silent Reading Party Thefirst worldwide silent-reading partywas such a huge success that we're making it weekly. Every Wednesday at 6 pm we're going to throw these parties, at least until stay-at-home is over.Attendees at the first Zoom silent-reading party included famous actors, writers, composers, artists, families, teenagers doing their homework, people staring into space listening to the music because it was just so beautiful, cats, and even one household on Orcas Island that was eating dinner and decided to broadcast the reading party as their background music. (What a brilliant idea!)It wasn't just a great party to be at. Behind the scenes, this was a roaring success as well.The Strangerbrought in revenue from the reading party for the first time ever, our musicianPaul Matthew Mooremadeten timesmore on Venmo tips than he's ever made in the tip jar at the Sorrento (thank you for your generosityhedeservesit!), and hundreds of people at the party have written us emails, clamoring for more. CHRISTOPHER FRIZZELLE
Jack's Prime Rib Dinner Tuck into a juicy slab of smoky prime rib cooked low and slow by Jack's BBQ, along with sides. Reserve a table for dine-in at either the Sodo or South Lake Union location, or place an order for takeout.
Jonathan Slaght: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl The rare Blakiston's fish owl, the largest living species of owl, coexists withbrown bears, tigers, and leopards in a remote forest in Eastern Russia. Unsurprisingly, it's in danger of extinction. Wildlife biologist Jonathan Slaght is rightfully obsessed with them, as he'll prove in this Town Hall talk concerning his bookA Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl.
Kevin OBrien with Laurie Frankel "Summer means breezing through thrillers, and you can't really go wrong with a new one fromKevin O'Brien, aNew York Timesbest-selling author and a member of the Seattle7Writers collective," Rich Smith wrote last year, adding that the author "is good about providing some substance with his confectionary stuff, so expect to tear through this gossipy, creepy book in a couple of days without feeling too empty inside." This year, the "Capitol Hill flaneur" (per Elliott Bay) will discuss his new book, The Bad Sister, about "two half-sisters who learn that theyre at the center of a copycat killers obsession with the brutal murders on a college campus fifty years earlier." He'll appear in conversation with Laurie Frankel (This Is How It Always Is) in this livestreamed event.
Kiku Hughes A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japanese internment camps in Kiku Hughes's new historical graphic novel Displacement. Hear the local author/cartoonist talk about her work with Third Place Books.
Pay the Fee IPA Proceeds fromChuck's latest beer, an IPA made in collaboration with Seapine Brewing (and named after the call to "pay the fee" to Black and brown communities who have suffered most under the actions of SPD), will benefitKing County Equity Now, which is led by and champions Black-led and organizations and communities.
Burke From Home Trivia Night Test your knowledge of natural history and culture for a virtual trivia night hosted by theHolocaust Center for Humanity and the beloved Burke Museum. Once you register, they'll send you a Zoom link with the info to play along on a trivia platform called Crowdpurr.
Grounded - Weep Wave & Antonioni BIG BLDG's cozy weekly music series will welcome psych rockers Weep Wave and the grungy alt-rock band about whom Jasmyne Keimig once wrote: "Antonioni is what I imagined, as a millennial, the great local Seattle bands of the '90s sounded like, back when Seattle was Amazon-free and you could rent a room on the Hill for, like, $200 and a bag of magic beans or whatever. It's easy to picture the characters from10 Things I Hate About Youlistening to them."
HDLSC Presents: Peyote Ugly Space out to synth-psych trio Peyote Ugly's trippy jams on High Dive's virtual stage.
NVCS Presents: Naked Giants Album Release Party Local rock trio Naked Giants will give you a sneak peek into their sophomore album, The Shadow, with this virtual Nectar performance. You can also see the band perform on-demand here.
SAMA Sounds: Carmen Rizzo, Meriem Ben Amor, Kiran Ahluwalia Join Seattle Sacred Music & Art and Seattle Theatre Group for an exploration of sacred sounds from around the globe, featuring live music every Thursday evening.
BJ Cummings with James Rasmussen & Paulina Lopez: The River That Made Seattle Author BJ Cummings will read excerpts from The River That Made Seattle: A Natural and Human History of the Duwamishonline and show new and old photographs highlighting the river's Native, immigrant, and industrialist histories. He'll be joined by theDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition's James Rasmussen and Paulina Lopez.
Goethe Pop Up Book Klub: Yoko Tawada's Memoirs of a Polar Bear Yoko Tawanda's dreamy novel Memoirs of a Polar Bearcenters three German polar bears who write books, perform at the circus, and find peace at a Berlin zoo. Read it and discuss your thoughts at this online book club with German cultural center Goethe Pop Up.
Maaza Mengiste & Salar Abdoh Maaza Mengiste, the author ofBeneath the Lions Gaze and the Man Booker Prize-longlistedThe Shadow King, will discussAddis Ababa Noir, an anthology she helped edit featuringEthiopias capital city from various perspectives.
MarginShift Presents: Barton Cardenas Harrison Roth and Wright Soothe your weary soul with poetry from Ebo Barton, Brenda Cardenas, Roberto Harrison, Dia Roth, and Carolyne Wright.
Molly Wizenberg Wizenberg is the co-host of the local comedy/food podcast Spilled Milkand the author of Delancey: A Man, a Woman, a Restaurant, a Marriage, about the experience of opening Delancey, the acclaimed pizza restaurant in Ballard, with her ex-husband. She'll offer her life story as an insight into the changing nature of sexuality and the unexpected turns of life that can disrupt even the most seemingly stable families: At the age of 36, married to a man, she unexpectedly found herself attracted to a woman.
Strange Storytelling Hour Outside Worlds w/ Emmett Montgomery Storytellers recount peculiar tales and bizarre happenings based on their own experiences in this multi-episode series co-presented by the North Bend Film Festival. For this round, local comic and wizardly ex-Mormon Emmett Montgomery will tell tales revolving around "how to exist safely beyond our front doors."
Re/frame: Still Life Join Ann Poulson, the Henrys Associate Curator of Collections, for an interactive online tour of the gallery's collection.
Steven Holl: Making Architecture Renowned American architect Steven Holl will talk about his exhibitMaking Architecture, currently on view virtually at the Bellevue Arts Museum as part of the Seattle Design Festival.
Welcome to El: An Intimate Night of Comedy with El Sanchez Beloved local comedian El Sanchez recorded an intimate, hilarious show at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center just before the quarantine took effect. For those who missed it, the show is now on demand!
2020 Democratic National Convention Normally the DNC looks like a bunch of people milling about and giving each other standing ovations and waving signs. It's kind of like a concert festival, but for politicians who are just there to play the hits and get offstage. Maybe it'ssupposedto mean more than that, and maybe the 2020 version of the DNC, being held as a series of livestreamed, socially-distant events and speaking engagements when the country is literally on the verge of implosion, will live up to that. Watch live as Joe Biden and Kamala Harris officially accept their nominations, as other prominent Democrats like the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders deliver speeches, and even as pop stars like Billie Eilish and the Chicks perform.
Pike-Pine Summer United Get 10% off your bill at local bars and eateries like Amandine Bakeshop, A Pizza Mart, Bateau, and tons of other places on Capitol Hill moving into Phase 2 of reopening by mentioning The Stranger's Pike-Pine promotion. Various locations (Capitol Hill)
Doe Bay Fest Artist Residency Local artists have been invited to post up in the Orcas Island-adjacent Doe Bay resort (which is currently operating at 50% capacity) to bring live music to the people throughout the summer. Catch sets in-person from performers like Anna Tivel and Ok Sweetheart this week. Doe Bay Resort (Olga)
Saint Joan Despite George Bernard Shaw's trenchant atheism, his classic depiction of the Maid of Orleans stresses her strength, bravery, faith, and humanity in the face of political and religious oppression. The original date of this production, staged by Mathew Wright, was canceled due to COVID-19. This is a digital rendition.
Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair The Seattle Art Fair was canceled, but a bunch of local galleriesmany of which are in Pioneer Squareare taking it upon themselves to keep the tradition alive while abiding by social distancing guidelines with a DIY, self-guided version featuring exciting new pieces by artists like Anthony White.
Seattle Design Festival Now in its 10th year, Design in Public's Seattle Design Festival will switch over their programming to the internet to continue to explore how urbanism, architecture, and design can further justice, ecology, and community. Look forward to livestreamed webinars and discussions, a weekly "Thinkercyze" virtual challenge, and even in-person displays throughout the city that you can visit while social distancing.
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That Hideous Strength CS Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75 – Discovery Institute
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Image: C. S. Lewis, by Anca Budisan.
Editors note: Published on August 16, 1945,C. S. LewissThat Hideous Strengthis a dystopian novel that eerily reflects the realities of 2020. This week and next, to mark the books three-quarter century anniversary,Evolution News presents a series of essays, reflections, and videos about its themes and legacy.
M.D. AeschlimansThe Restoration of Man: C.S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientismhas recently been republished in an updated new edition by Discovery Institute Press and in French translation by Pierre Tqui in France.
Seventy-five years ago today, in that momentous year 1945, C. S. Lewis published the third and final volume in his series of three space-fiction, mythopoeic, dystopian novels,That Hideous Strength.The novels are hard to categorize and have never reached the levels of popularity of his Narnia chronicles and satirical and apologetic works, but their over-arching philosophical project entails a profound meditation on thecharacter of Western and world history over the previous 150 years but especially during the catastrophic, apocalyptic period 1914-1945. The novel deserves comparison with the more famous dystopias such as the Russian Evgeny ZamyatinsWe(1924), Aldous HuxleysBrave New World(1932) and George Orwells1984(1949), and also the English Catholic-convert Msgr. R.H. Bensons apocalyptic fantasyLord of the World(1907); but it even merits comparisons with first-order philosophical-historical writing in the tradition of Thomas CarlylesThe French Revolution(1839) and Alexander SolzhenitsynsGulag Archipelago(1974) and with the history and philosophy of science as conveyed by Alfred North Whitehead, Pierre Duhem, and the great Hungarian refugee scholars Michael Polanyi and Stanley L. Jaki. The very width of its inter-disciplinary scope and depth of its philosophical-ethical penetration make it a hard book to categorize but are also characteristics of itsimportance and power as a work of metaphysical fiction.
Himself a wounded veteran of World War I, Lewis delivered in 1943, in the middle of a second, even vaster and more destructive world war, a series of invited university lectures in the north of England that were published by Oxford University Press later that year asThe Abolition of Man, a dystopian title with an innocuous-sounding, specialist subtitle,Reflections on Education with Special Reference to the Teaching of English in the Upper Forms of Schools. High claims continue to be made for this short, dense, lucid expository essay; the outstanding Oxford literary scholar A. D. Nuttall (1937-2007), author of one of the finest books of the last fifty years on Shakespeare, wrote of it: The argument as it unfolds is dazzling. It is in a way odd that a work which so thoroughly routs whole volumes of Nietzsche and Sartre is not more widely admired, especially as the style in which it is presented is brilliantly lucid. In Lewiss own Preface toThat Hideous Strength, he tells us that the novel is a tall story about devilry, though it has behind it a serious point which I have tried to make in myAbolition of Man. It is also a uniquely revealing ghost story and can be profitably read alongside the science journalist Deborah Blums excellentGhost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death(2006).
The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards, which Lewis himself had lived through, viscerally as a soldier, intellectually as a scholar, and vicariously as a spectator of world events and as a novelist. But unlikeBrave New World,1984,We,orLord of the World, it also contains a benign vision of human possibility and glimpses of beatitude. It reminds one of the clairvoyant, apocalyptic psychological and metaphysical insights of Dostoevsky but also contains visions of cosmic, human, and even animal and vegetable harmony that are reminiscent of St. Francis of Assisi, Dante, Spenser, Shakespeares late romances, Blake, Tolstoy, and G. K. ChestertonsThe Man Who Was Thursday. Albert Schweitzers reverence for life and the pious, imaginative ecology of Wendell Berry are more recent examples.
But if a way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. For Lewis, the great modern apostasy that had led to the 20th-century Armageddons had taken place in the late 19th century with the marriage of Darwinian and Nietzschean thinking that simultaneously produced a calamitous decline in religious-humanist belief in Natural-Law theism and an enormous increase in post-moral cynicism and ruthlessness in the writings of Nietzsche and the emergent ideology of Social Darwinism, whether in its nationalist-fascist-militarist form, a so-called scientific-socialist Communist form, or in the less fully organized competitive-capitalist form. In 1992 the literary critic John Carey publishedThe Intellectuals and the Masses: Pride and Prejudice among the Literary Intelligentsia, 1880-1939, in which he argued that during this whole period in the British Isles only two major writers withstood the glamorous, radically enlightened appeal of Nietzsche: G. K. Chesterton and Arnold Bennett. Lewis may well be seen as a disciple of Chesterton, and like him he felt the seismic shift of consciousness away from the often-contested but durable Judaeo-Christian Natural-Law tradition of figures such as Samuel Johnson, Burke, Jane Austen, Dickens, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Lord Acton, and William Jennings Bryan.
A.D. Nuttall astonishingly argues that Lewiss short philosophical treatiseThe Abolition of Manrouts whole volumes of Nietzsche and Sartre, but that its very lucidity has put modern intellectuals off and led to its undervaluation.That Hideous Strengthattempts to give a vivid narrative picture of how the gigantically potent Darwinian-Nietzschean heresy actually works out in practice, something that Lewis felt was truly evident during the decades of his life up to 1945. In an anti-reductionist 1972 essay on Blake, the combative Cambridge moralist and literary critic F. R. Leavis pointed out that Though we have to recognize that Darwins life testifies to the existence of intelligence and purpose, his theory of evolution offered to dispense with the need for thesewords (emphasis added).
Lewiss novel conveys the idea that the human person is inevitably, almost gravitationally, drawn to some conception of ultimate worth and significance. The difficulty that ensues, G. K. Chesterton epigrammatically put it, when people cease to believe in God is not that they believe in nothing, but that they believe inanything. The clairvoyant Dostoevsky saw that the destruction of the orthodox belief in the God-man Jesus Christ led to new divination and deification, the pursuit and celebration of the man-god, homo deus, foreshadowed by the Marquis de Sade and Max Stirner and Ralph Waldo Emerson, and fully articulate in Nietzsches conception of the post-moral Superman. It could take nationalist, racialist, imperialist, utilitarian, or Promethean-proletarian forms, or eventuate in a simple but thoroughgoing hedonistic egotism as in the Marquis de Sade and Stirner; but some assumption or assertion of ultimate worth or value, for individuals or groups nations, races, classes is inevitable. Language and conceptualization themselves assume or entail it.
In a brilliant pre-World War I essay On Reading, Chesterton had intuitively discerned the depth of the Nietzschean threat (so alluring to his friend George Bernard Shaw) and had compared Nietzsches celebratory, histrionic immoralism to Shakespeares depiction of the iniquity of the usurper Richard III in his play: what the incipiently mad egotist Nietzsche praised and celebrated, the orthodox Christian Shakespeare deplored and condemned. Suffering nightmares about his own murders, Richard tries to steel himself and his followers:
Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls. Conscience is but a word that cowards use, Devised at first to keep the strong in awe. Our strong arms be our conscience; swords, our law.
Souls is of course ironic, as Richard does not believe in the soul at all, but only in the will. Richard is a cynical nominalist Conscience is but aword
The skeptical, nominalist thinking of Hume (a brilliant sophist G. E. M. Anscombe) and the French philosophes in the 18th century stripped the emerging natural sciences of their fiduciary rational core, creating a radically reductionist positivism that, as the distinguished contemporary Polish philosopher Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009) put it, renounces the transcendental meaning of truth and reduces [even] logical values to features of biological behavior. In his history of positivist thought,The Alienation of Reason, Kolakowski entitles one chapter The Destructive Consequences of Humes Work.
The late 19th-century marriage of the sub-rational and sub-moral Darwinian idea of survival of the fittestand Nietzsches idea of the post-moral will to power produced a predatory mindset that had much to do with the sanguinary tragedies of the century to follow and our own time, as a large scholarly literature has shown. (Fine recent examples are Richard WeikartsFrom Darwin to Hitler(2004) and Yvonne SherrattsHitlers Philosophers(2013).)Sherratt notes that Nietzsches infamous workZarathustra, in which he had coined the idea of the Superman, was printed in 150,000 copies during the First World War, and handed out to German soldiers at the front.
LewissAbolition of Manis not a theological work, but a metaphysical argument, a brilliantly lucid philosophical treatise defending the perennial philosophy. ButThat Hideous Strengthis simultaneously a science-fiction, mythopoeic, and theological work, with roots in and affinities to Biblical apocalyptic literature,The Odyssey, DantesComedy, MiltonsParadise Lost, SwiftsGullivers Travels, and the transcendental visions of William Blake, most luminously in his 1803 Auguries of Innocence. A key passage for both Blakes visionary poems and Lewiss visionary novels is St. Pauls assertion in the Epistle to the Ephesians: It is not against flesh and blood that we [fight]; we have to do with princedoms and powers, with those who have mastery of the world in these dark days, with malign influences in an order higher than ours (Eph. 6:12, tr. Ronald Knox). Blakes late visions are often disappointingly intermittent and obscure, but he was clear in believing that The strongest poison ever known comes from Caesars laurel crown. The pursuit of power, without virtue, condemned by Christian thinkers such as St. Paul and St. Augustine as the libido dominandi, becomes the enlightened modern will-to-power of Nietzsche and his legion of admirers and disciples, including H. L. Mencken, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes in the USA. Power without goodness, mental and physical force without ethics or justice, is that hideous strength.
Malign influences in an order higher than ours are depicted inThat Hideous Strength.The force connecting humans with these transcendental influences is ideological or philosophical by voluntarily opening themselves mentally to post-moral idols of power the intellectuals of the new technocracy, nowadays called post-humanists or transhumanists, enter truly trans-human realms of conceptual and existential reality. Less consciously than Marlowes Dr. Faustus, Lewiss new class of scientific-political conditioners collaborate with ferocious, predatory potencies in the universe. Even the popular contemporary futurist Yuval Harari worries today about unleashing new post-humanist technologies (Homo Deus, 2016). Lewis argued the point with particular brilliance in chapter three ofThe Abolition of Manin 1943.
Machiavellis, Marlowes, and Sades immoralist assertions have a gruesome, criminal irony and the first two thinkers are often ambivalent but Nietzsches penetrate higher and deeper in gnomic affirmations of destructive, inhuman effect. In 1884 he wrote of war: one must learn from warto sacrifice many and to take ones cause seriously enough not to spare human lives. With a kind of sick longing, the neurasthenic, intellectual Nietzsche ludicrously celebrates brutal visions of unjust and merciless power. Conscience is but a word that cowards use
Lewiss philosophical project in both the expositoryAbolitionof Manand the imaginativeThat Hideous Strengthis to show that none of the varieties of modern Naturalism can escape self-contradiction and self-refutation because language, rationality, ethics, and human cognition, conceptualization, intentionality, and identity themselves have metaphysical and supernatural dimensions.
Having vigorously argued against the Pharisaical Bertrand Russell in a notorious 1957 BBC television interview with him, the witty, sardonic moralist Malcolm Muggeridge went on to attack the Oxford logical-positivist philosopher Alfred Ayer in another interview for his glib, nihilistic nominalism, the emotivist thesis that ethics is never rational but only subjective: How you ever became Professor of Logic, Freddie, I shall never know. Nor do we now, in retrospect, except as the manipulative machinations of an elite, obscurantist, sophistical inner ring.
Trained himself at the very highest level in philosophy, like his contemporaries T. S. Eliot and Jacques Maritain, Lewis saw the ascendancy of all forms of modern Naturalism as both self-refuting and catastrophic, learnd foolishness often developing into transgressive iniquity. The Logical Positivists, Russell and Ayer, the Marxists and their scientific-intellectual fellow-travelers such as J. D. Bernal, J. B. S. Haldane, and C. P. Snow in Britain, were contemporary with the vastly influential American philosopher John Dewey (1859-1952), whose mind-numbing, tortuously obscure prose style resembles the endless circumlocutions of the depraved inner ring of intellectuals at the National Institute of Coordinated Experiments (N.I.C.E.) at Belbury inThat Hideous Strength: like Miltons fallen angels, by their perverse reasoning and language they are all in wandering mazes lost (Paradise Lost, II:561).
The only way to avoid metaphysics is to say nothing, the American philosopher E. A. Burtt argued in 1924 inThe Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, producing a classic epigram of the perennial philosophy. Voluble, moralistic Naturalists such as Russell, Dewey, C. P. Snow, and C. H. Waddington, whom Lewis critiques inThe Abolition of Man, carried forward the destructive project of Hume and the French philosophes and had no grounds for opposing the Nietzschean-Social Darwinist program that laid waste so much of the 20th century and whose confusions are still with us.
These concurrent influences make much more of a reality Petrarchs famous poetic lament of 700 hundred years ago about the occlusion of the light and life of reason: Ed si spento ogni benigno lume/Del ciel, per cui sinforma umana vita And all the kindly lights, by which human life is guided, are extinguished in Heaven Povera e nuda vai, Filosofia,/Dice la turba al vil guadagno intesa. You go poor and naked, Philosophy, says the crowd, bent on selfish gain. (Sonnet 7)
Yet it is the very luminosity of Lewiss argument inThe Abolition of Manand of his brilliant mythopoeic fable inThat Hideous Strength a fantasia of consciousness and conscience, not of the unconscious and dark will that continues to give intellectual, moral, and imaginative sustenance 75 years after their first publication. Philosophy is here properly clothed in her radiant garments, and the kindly lights of Heaven are not extinguished.
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AMAZON to premiere Welcome to the Blumhouse movie series for Halloween – TV Blackbox
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Sharing the spine-tingling suspense thats a Blumhouse signature, each film presents a distinctive vision and unique perspective on common themes centered around family and love as redemptive or destructive forces.
This slate marks the first-ever program of Amazon Original movies on Prime Video that are thematically connected.
The films showcase exciting up-and-coming talent, alongside established actors in exceptional and shocking new roles. Welcome to the Blumhouse will launch in October, timed for the Halloween season, on Prime Video in over 240 countries and territories worldwide.
Amazon Prime Video will launch the initial slate of four films as double features starting with The Lie directed by acclaimed writer/director Veena Sud (The Killing, 7 Seconds) and Black Box directed by up-and-coming writer/director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. (Born with It), both premiering on October 6.
Launching the following week on October 13 is Evil Eye, from talented young directors Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani (A Days Work, Jinn) and executive produced by Priyanka Chopra Jonas (Quantico, White Tiger), and Nocturne written and directed by filmmaker Zu Quirke (Zugzwang, Ghosting), making her feature film debut. The latter four films will launch in 2021.
said Julie Rapaport, Co-Head of Movies for Amazon Studios.
The Lie is written and directed by Veena Sud, and stars Mireille Enos (The Killing), Peter Sarsgaard (An Education) and Joey King (The Kissing Booth 2, The Act). When their teenaged daughter confesses to impulsively killing her best friend, two desperate parents attempt to cover up the horrific crime, leading them into a complicated web of lies and deception. Produced by Alix Madigan-Yorkin, Christopher Tricarico, and Jason Blum. Executive produced by Howard Green, Kim Hodgert, Jeanette Volturno, Couper Samuelson and Aaron Barnett.
Directed by Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. (Born With It) and script by Osei-Kuffour Jr. and Stephen Herman, Black Box stars Mamoudou Athie (Jurassic World 3, The Circle), Phylicia Rashad (Creed), Amanda Christine (Colony), Tosin Morohunfola (The Chi, The 24th), Charmaine Bingwa (Trees of Peace, Little Sista), and Troy James (The Flash, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark). After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonising experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is. Executive produced by Jason Blum, Jay Ellis, Aaron Bergman, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Mynette Louie and William Marks.
Based off the award-winning, best-selling Audible Original production from writer Madhuri Shekar, Evil Eye is directed by Elan Dassani and Rajeev Dassani, and stars Sarita Choudhury (Mississippi Masala, Lady in the Water), Sunita Mani (GLOW), Omar Maskati (Unbelievable), and Bernard White (Silicon Valley). A seemingly perfect romance turns into a nightmare when a mother becomes convinced her daughters new boyfriend has a dark connection to her own past. Executive produced by Jason Blum, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Guy Stodel, Anjula Acharia, Emilia Lapenta and Kate Navin.
Nocturne is written and directed by Zu Quirke in her breakout feature debut. Starring Sydney Sweeney (Euphoria, The Handmaids Tale, Players Table), Madison Iseman (Jumanji: The Next Level, Annabelle Comes Home), Jacques Colimon (The Society) and Ivan Shaw (Insecure, Casual). Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate. Executive produced by Jason Blum, Lisa Bruce, Marci Wiseman, Jeremy Gold, Matthew Myers and Fodhla Cronin OReilly.
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We are back in the culture wars, reversed – Las Cruces Sun-News
Posted: August 16, 2020 at 9:56 am
Gabriel Rochelle, Path of the Spirit Published 1:51 a.m. MT Aug. 16, 2020
Fr. Gabe Rochelle(Photo: Courtesy photo)
It has long been the case that organized religion is on the wane in the United States. I have days of thinking thats good, days of thinking thats bad, but never mind. What I see happening, however, is that the gap left by the increasing lack of religion is being rapidly filled in by an alternative: social justice religion. Let me rephrase that: The gap left by the absence of puritanical, judgmental, finger-waving, name-calling forms of religion is being replaced by movements which mimic all the bad tendencies that people have always complained about in some manifestations of religion.
The social awareness scene is truly scary these days. I was never a fan of movements like the moral majority in the past. Those warriors did not speak to my soul and they didnt represent my understanding of Christian values or faith. I can go farther back: I was never a fan of Billy Graham and was chastised and rebuked for refusing to be involved in one of his major campaigns back in the 70s. I never went along with the crazy late great planet earth fanatics, either, but thats a tale to be told some other time. Ive lived through a lot of finger-pointing, accusations of being a communist, and assorted weirdness like being spat on in civil rights marches. Most of this stuff I could laugh off or disregard because it had no real cash value in the marketplace of ideas.
But that scariness pales in comparison to the rigid, puritanical political correctness that seems to be sweeping the nation these days. This year, the Left has gone nuts. There is still a liberal Left, in shreds, but there is also an authoritarian Left and theyre the ones in public view. Whenever I hear the word woke (which wasnt in anybodys vocabulary two years ago) I think I have to run the other direction. I will have offended someone; I will have become the scapegoat for someones standard of behavior. We are experiencing the authoritarian Left in full bloom. If you are not in line with the latest politically correct behavior you will be called out and shamed. If possible, the totalitarian Left will call for your firing from any responsible position. Friends, this is happening at our universities. Look at the recent flap over Professor Jonathan Katz at Princeton. Or more personally, note the interesting statistic that 61percent of Americans are afraid to speak their mind publicly because of fear of censure from either extreme. This is the society of freedom?
From my perch, heres the problem: if God is no longer in charge ultimately, or to put it another way if there is no overarching social contract in place whereby people live in accordance with an agreed set of values, then we are reduced to our little, small selves to rely on what we feel (not think!) offends us and our sensibilities. Because we are also in the age of entitlement, we then raise hell because we have been personally offended. Those who shout loudest win. Aesthetics replace ethics: What we feel is beautiful or true is good, whats not is bad.
No matter what you may personally believe or not believe, western society in particular has been in search of a soul since Nietzsche declared that God was dead near the end of the 19th century. Since that turning point, we raised up the great therapeutic society, and now we are reaping the burnt-out tailings of that movement in the exaltation of personal feeling as the be-all and end-all of societal striving. And it isnt pretty, folks.
Fr. Gabriel Rochelle is pastor of St Anthony of the Desert Orthodox Mission, Las Cruces. The church web site is http://www.stanthonylc.org. We welcome folks in ordinary times. Send an email if youd like to learn more.
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The Base: Exporting Accelerationist Terror – Southern Poverty Law Center
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After BBC TVs Panorama showed how The Base expanded its network to Europe, Hatewatch can reveal that it also had success in expanding to a society whose settler history parallels the U.S.: Australia. Recorded vetting interviews, application documents, social media posts and The Bases own internal chats show that the network, led by Rinaldo Nazzaro (who operated online under the pseudonyms Norman Spear and Roman Wolf), had some success in exporting both itsideology and organizing model to Europe and settler cultures such as Australia.
The materials show that the group made significant inroads into parts of Australias far right, and in particular the Lads Society, a white nationalist group that once invited Brenton Tarrant, the Australian who murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, on March 15, 2019, to be a member.
They also show how local Australian far-right activists acted as virtual franchisees for The Base, finding fresh recruits in the ranks of the Lads Society, a local white nationalist network, and also vetting a man who had previously run for election to Australias parliament as a member of a right-wing populist party.
In late 2017, under the alias Norman Spear, Rinaldo Nazzaro began promoting an idea with a long history among white supremacists: that the Pacific Northwest could secede from the United States to create a white ethnostate.
The proposal had previously been associated with white supremacist Harold Covingtonand his Northwest Front organization. Before him, another influential advocate was Christian Identity preacher and Aryan Nations founder Richard Girnt Butler, who until 2000 occupied a compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho. Butler was associated so closely with the idea of a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest that it is sometimes known as the Butler Plan.
Covington, who died in 2018, had a long historyin the organized white power movement. By the time of his death, however, his Northwest Front organization was largely inactive, and Covingtons main activity in the movement was writing propagandistic speculative fiction, some of which touched on race war and the establishment of an ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest.
In his 2007 novel The Brigade, Covington set out a scenario in which a guerrilla group, the Northwest Volunteer Army, is carrying out insurgent warfare against the administration of President Hillary Clinton, who has commenced a plan of white genocide. In the novel, the Northwest Volunteer Armys motto is Ex Gladio Libertas, Latin for Freedom comes from the sword, which The Base used as its own mottoin online recruiting materials.
In podcasts and social media posts at that time, Norman Spear praised Covington and the Butler Plan. He did so in an episode of Lone Wolf Radio, a podcast hosted by British white nationalist Chris White, in December 2017. White introduced Nazzaro as a Northwest Front activist and northwest migrant.
Also in late 2017, Spear released a series of videos spelling out a theory of revolutionary struggle with the stated aim of coercing the system and making it capitulate to political demands. Topics included lone wolf operations, leaderless resistance and guerrilla warfare. He advocated for guerrilla struggle wherein lone wolves would carry out acts of violence as a form of propaganda of the deed, and an above-ground leadership would negotiate with the system to achieve its military goals.
The argument was for acts of terrorism, which would bring about a condition of siege as the state imposed unsustainable condition of martial law, at which time it would negotiate with guerrilla leaders. Victory isn't inherently dependent on physically defeating the enemy, Spear said in the video. Guerrillas win if they dont lose, and the central aim was to carve off sovereign territory from the state.
Spear thus synthesized the Butler Plan with some of the ideas for destabilizing and defeating liberal democracy put forth by the neo-Nazi who had the most influence on the accelerationist movement, James Mason.
Nazzaro began advertising The Base in July 2018 and trying to recruit members. He was also active in the Read SIEGE group on white power-friendly alt-tech platform, Gab. The group was dedicated to promoting the work and ideas of neo-Nazi author Mason, who advocated terrorism as a means to creating a white ethnostate. In December 2018, through a Delaware LLC called Base Global, Nazzaro boughtthree 10-acre blocks of undeveloped land in remote Ferry County, Washington, but maintained his principal residence in Russia.
Spear also posted messagesfrom imprisoned members of the accelerationist neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division(AWD), one of the groups that sought to put Masons ideas into practice.
In fall 2018, early recruiting material for The Base stopped short of explicitly advocating for terrorism. Sources who spoke online and in person with Nazzaro, however, say Nazzaro told The Bases inner circle that in truth, The Base was an accelerationist project: Its real purpose was to hasten the collapse of American liberal democracy into civil war, and bring about a white ethnostate in at least part of its current national territory. In encrypted chats, members discussed the methods and efficacy of tactics such as sabotaging infrastructure and the finer points of guerrilla warfare.
In most of the recorded vetting interviews obtained by SPLC, standard questions for potential recruits included whether they considered themselves national socialists; whether or not they had read SIEGE, the compilation of Masons newsletters that became the central text of the accelerationist movement; and whether they believed a political solution could remedy the perceived genocide of white people.
The ideal recruit would answer, respectively, yes, yes and no.
The final question, on the feasibility of political solutions to so-called white genocide, marks a defining characteristic of The Base, and the accelerationist ideology to which it adhered.
The false belief that a conspiracy exists to carry out white genocide, or to effect a great replacement of white Americans through mass immigration, is widely prevalent across the racist far right, from outright neo-Nazis, to so-called identitarian groups, to influential Republican officials. Many white nationalists hold, again falsely, that this genocide or replacement has been orchestrated by Jews.
As Hatewatchs primer on accelerationismdetails, this belief has allowed white power movements to portray their own violence as a matter of racial self-defense. White power movements are necessarily violent because their various political projects, such as the creation of a white ethnostate, cannot be achieved without violence. But before accelerationism gained momentum, many groups and individuals sought to downplay or obfuscate this violence.
In 2016 and 2017, some did this successfully enough to reach the threshold of mainstream politics.
During and immediately after Donald Trumps successful run for president in 2016, many so-called alt-right groups which included white nationalists with such conspiracy-minded racist beliefs felt emboldened by the victory of a politician who they considered to share at least some of their values, and who they felt they had played a part in electing.
Some were enthused enough to promote their beliefs more openly, using tactics associated with mainstream forms of political advocacy in liberal democracies. Throughout 2016 and 2017, groups such as Identity Evropa(now called the American Identity Movement) openly participated in rallies, street protests, campus recruitment and publicity campaigns. Many had platforms on mainstream social media services.
Others decided that the political solution was a false promise. Some of them came to believe that pluralist, multiracial democracy was headed for inevitable collapse, and that they should help it on its way by joining one of the burgeoning neo-Nazi accelerationist groups.
Atomwaffen Division was the template for accelerationist neo-Nazism. Following the ideas of Mason, whom they adopted as a kind of spiritual patriarch, Atomwaffen advocated terroristic violence as a political tool. Having abandoned electoral politics and the mainstream political process as futile, optics were of little concern.
Just as accelerationism was gaining influence, Nazzaro appeared on social media in the guise of Norman Spear.
Before The Base was formed, Nazzaro raised his profile in far-right spaces online by claiming he had served in the military and had experience with intelligence work. While The Base was operating, Nazzaro reiterated its emphasis on action. He demanded that members engage in training and meet-ups, and that potential recruits detail any skills that they could bring to the group or teach other members.
This practical orientation, his embrace of ideas important to survivalist and apocalyptic prepper movements, the openness of the network to members of other organizations, and his adoption of Covingtons project of a white ethnostate in the Pacific Northwest made Nazzaros offering distinct from Atomwaffen Division and other emerging accelerationist outfits.
The Base struggled early on after leaks from its chats on an app called Riot were exposed by an antifascist group operating in the Pacific Northwest. The group gradually reestablished protocols for internal communication and vetting for new members using the encrypted messaging platform, Wire.
Its brand though drawing heavily on U.S.-specific white supremacist movements proved highly exportable to white power individuals and groups around the world.
The Base eventually recruited members in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Scandinavia and Australia.
Eventually, some members of the group began acting on the hate The Base fostered. Former members in New Jerseyand Wisconsin stand accused of conspiring to vandalize synagogues, the Georgia cell with plotting an assassination. Charging documents for the cell based in Delaware and Maryland allege that the men discussed firing at random into a pro-gun rally in Virginia last January.
Nazzaros claim that the group had no formal member list, and even no formal existence, allowed a tolerance for double-patching or dual membership in another white supremacist group. The Base was designed as an umbrella that could draw in people who had been radicalized in other groups, like Atomwaffen Division.
Richard Tobin, 18, one of those arrested in relation to the desecration of synagogues in Michigan and Wisconsin, was a member of both neo-Nazi accelerationist groups.
Late in the groups active history, it began recruiting in a country whose history of indigenous dispossession, white supremacy and xenophobic politics is on a parallel track with the U.S.
In late October 2019, members of The Bases vetting committee received a bundle of identically formatted PDF documents from five Australian men.
A sixth, who operated under the alias Volkskrieger within The Base and elsewhere online, appointed as Australian recruiter for the group in 2019, had acted as a virtual local franchisee in bringing these recruits forward for the group.
The group had had several Australian applicants and had accepted some as members. But until late 2019, according to audio recordings, none had been as dedicated as Volkskrieger, who according to open source materials and internal communications obtained by the SPLC, lives in the vicinity of Perth, Western Australia.
After Spear and other Base members were banned from Gab after mid-2019, Volkskrieger was one of the few left to carry the groups banner. On Gab, in May 2019, he posted Western Australia-specific advertising for the group, advising potential recruits to contact the groups main email address.
In June, he posted photographs showing that design being used in a poster run in Perths Hyde Park. At this time, as revealed in a voice chat with The Bases leadership recorded on Oct. 20, 2019, he was the only standing Australian member of the group.
A post showing promotional materials for The Base.
Apart from poster runs, Volkskrieger claimed to have used more active methods, and his existing network of white supremacists in Australia, to find recruits.
In chats on the encrypted messaging application, Wire, Volkskrieger claimed on May 28, 2019, that he was meeting some West Aussie NatSoc [National Socialist] group today, if all goes well I might be able to send some guys our way.
Volkskrieger discussed recruiting efforts in this May 2019 post.
Eventually, this dedication to the cause was rewarded. In the October voice chat, Nazzaro, other senior leaders, and Volkskrieger discussed his new role as The Bases lead Australian recruiter.
In that conversation, Nazzaro told Volkskrieger, Youve been really solid for us,"specifying that Youve postered, youve produced some content for us, youve postered on Gab.
Nazzaro expressed dissatisfaction with the progress made in Australia up until that point, saying, Weve had 7 Australians come and go, and Weve probably had a dozen apply, adding, We think there is potential there, and We need someone to lead the charge.
Later in the call, Volkskrieger mentions collaborating on a promo image for an Australian Base cell with with Matthias, a California-based admin of an accelerationist website, FascistForge.
He also said that at that time, there were new Australian members in FascistForge who might be recruited for The Base.
In the call, the men agreed to establish a separate email account for the Australian cell, and Nazzaro and others coached Volkskrieger on methods of email vetting.
Within two months, Volkskrieger presented the group with five applicants who were ready for vetting calls, along with his own commentary on the quality of the recruits and their pathways into neo-Nazi accelerationism.
The applications and vetting interviews reviewed by Hatewatch showed that the men who applied for Base membership came from other white nationalist groups, after growing dissatisfied with those groups unwillingness to embrace more extreme tactics.
In the May voice call, Volkskrieger describes his involvement in a series of groups on Australias fractious far right.
He explains that he needs to conceal his Base membership from his comrades in the Society of Western Australian Nationalists (SWAN), which does not allow dual patching.
SWAN is a regional breakaway from the Lads Society, a national network of white nationalists founded in 2017 by prominent local far right activists previously associated with the anti-Muslim United Patriots Front, including Blair Cottrell, Neil Erikson and Thomas Sewell.
They were soon joined by other local extremists including Jacob Hersant, who was previously a core memberof local neo-Nazi accelerationist group, Antipodean Resistance.
Like Atomwaffen Division, Antipodean Resistance was formed by membersof the IronMarch forum, which helped shaped the development of accelerationist ideology and aesthetics.
Between Volkskrieger and the five applicants he brought to The Base, four claimed some involvement in Lads Society or SWAN, including one who claimed to be the Queensland chapter leader. Of the remaining two, one came to group via FascistForge, and another heard about the group on the Goy Talk website, one of a number of online hubs for the alt-right.
Lads Society has conducted a range of activities both public and private aimed at building a cadre of white nationalist activists and injecting their talking points into mainstream Australian political debate.
Away from the public eye, the group has operated underground fight clubs and maintains clubhouses in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
In 2018, reporters revealedthe Lads Societys involvement in significant far-right infiltration of the youth branch of the conservative National Party.
But the group and especially Cottrell and Sewell, its figureheads have also sought the media limelight with rallies and stunts.
In 2019, the group staged an anti-Black, anti-Muslim proteston St. Kilda Beach, in the midst of a national moral panicabout the supposed activities of African gangs in the city of Melbourne.
Cottrells, Eriksons and Sewells previous organization, the United Patriots Front, was formed in 2014during anti-Muslim mosque protests in the Australian city of Bendigo.
In 2015, members of the group beheaded a dummy mocked up as a crude representation of an ISIS fighter, spilling fake blood on the ground outside Bendigos City Hall.
That stunt led to Cottrell, Erikson and another UPF member, Christopher Shortis, being convicted and fined for inciting contempt for Muslims.
After Tarrants March 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sewell admitted on Facebookthat he had contacted Tarrant about joining Lads Society at its formation in 2017. Responding to other members concerns that Tarrants attack may have been a false flag operation, Sewell said that Tarrant had in fact been on the scene for a while.
Other reportsshowed that Tarrant had been a devoted online follower of United Patriots Front, and Cottrell in particular. When Cottrell and Sewell livestreamed their ecstatic reaction to the election of Donald Trump in November 2016, Tarrant reportedly wrote a series of comments on the groups Facebook wall.
Knocked it out of the park tonight Blair, he wrote. "Your retorts had me smiling, nodding, cheering and often laughing.
He added, Never believed we would have a true leader of the nationalist movement in Australia, and especially not so early in the game.
Like Tarrant, many young men would be drawn into the orbit of Sewell and Cottrell, the Lads Society and other groups that overlapped with or broke away from the group.
Andy Fleming, an antifascist researcher who recently identifieda number of members of the group, estimated that the Lads Society has around 80 core members, with scores more in the groups orbit.
In one vetting interview obtained by Hatewatch, a panel of Base members, including Nazzaro, tested a recruit Hatewatch has identified as a former political candidate for the right-wing populist Pauline Hansons One Nation Party (PHON). Hatewatch determined this using internal materials from The Base, material on the public record and other materials provided by Australian antifascist group the White Rose Society,
His efforts to join The Base suggest that the barriers between anti-immigrant right-wing populist electoral parties and accelerationist terror networks are permeable, and that progress through the stages of radicalization can happen very quickly.
In the interview, a necessary step for new recruits, Dean Smith, under the aliases Will and WLL2PWER,described himself as a Western Australian member of PHON who had been a candidate for the party in 2019.
He said that he had signed up for a five-year membership in 2019, and that he was still a member at the time of his vetting interview with American members of The Base.
The interview took place more than a month after the first member of The Base was arrested. Richard Tobin, 18, of New Jersey, made international news after he was chargedon Nov. 19, 2019, with federal hate crimes for allegedly orchestrating the vandalism of synagogues hundreds of miles away, in the midwestern states of Michigan and Wisconsin.
This did not deter Smith from seeking access to the network. When he was asked about his political background, he replied that he had been a member of One Nation for almost a year now. I signed up with them in May when I was still believing in the political system.
Being around that sort of party structure and political structure in Australia, I sort of lost faith in the whole thing. And then I decided take more direct action, and then got pushed on to the Society of West Australian Nationalists (SWAN), he said.
His loss of faith in PHON, he said, was not just due to their slow progress. He told The Base interviewers, Theyre all race mixers and it turns my gut upside down.
But he added that (SWANs) progress is too slow on things like demographic change and how the political atmosphere is turning towards our race, referencing theGreat Replacement conspiracy theory, which holds that mass immigration is a deliberate effort to wipe out the white race.
Smith also described how between joining PHON and SWAN, he had run as a candidate.
So I was a member of One Nation maybe two months, three months prior (to joining SWAN). Because I actually ran for the last Federal Election in Australia as a candidate of One Nation.
He also describes how he became more and more extreme and passionate about my views and it was harder and harder to speak out about it for fear of losing my political career.
And I thought, well, I have to sell myself to the devil to have a career in politics, or I can leave my career in politics and live an authentic life. And I think that, you know, leaving politics behind is a much better option than going for it, he said.
In his written application, submitted prior to the interview, Smith described his ideology as NatSoc (National Socialism)ubermenschnihilism, a reference to the concept of the bermensch, or superman, derived from the work of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
Though Nietzsches work has been drawn on by a diverse range of thinkers and political traditions, fascists from the 20th-century European interwar period on have made simplified and selective readings of Nietzsche, focusing on his antisemitism, his opposition to democracy and feminism, his anticipation of a superior human type, and his affinity for a warrior ethos to claim him as their own.
The commonalities between Smiths online, far-right persona and his comments as a candidate helped reveal his identity.
Prior to the leak of the interview, Smith had been identified as WLL2PWR by the White Rose Society, an Australian antifascist group. Their materials were provided exclusively to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The reference to the philosopher Nietzsche links Smiths username to his far-right YouTube channel and Twitter account, both of which are also run under the WLL2PWER moniker.
On the Twitter account, Smith has repeatedly expressed disgust at diversity initiatives in a local technical college.
Smiths social media accounts make frequent references to Nietzsche and Nietzschean philosophy. In Smiths candidate profilein the Albany Advertiser on May 10, 2019, he said he would like to meet Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus Christ, Julius Caesar, and Thomas Jefferson.
In his written application to The Base, Smith says he is in his early 20s, and has skills including welding experience, and heavy machinery.
In his interview, he says he is 23.
A profilewith The West Australian on May 12, 2019, said that Smith had entered the political contest only a few weeks ago, and that while politics is a new venture for him, he believes in his partys policies.
In media interviews and in his PHON candidate profileearlier in the year, Smith said he was 22 and he worked as a laborer.
Smith made other connections between his WLL2PWR persona and PHON in 2019.
On April 14, 2019, on his WLL2PWR YouTube channel, Smith interviewedfellow PHON WA candidate Tyler Walsh, and gave direct hints in the interview that he was an active PHON member in Western Australia.
At one point he asked Walsh, What inspired you to put your hand up being such a young man like myself to go out there and basically face the world?
Looking forward to a PHON function in the Perth area, Smith said, And weve got the meeting tomorrow dont we at Vic Park, is that right?
He also described the process of joining the party and his interactions with Sheila Mundy, another PHON candidate and influential Western Australian party member.
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The Spiritual Work of a Worldly Life – Tricycle
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Buddhist teachings offer more than an escape from the samsaric world.
Every so often, Tricycle features an article from Inquiring Mind, a Buddhist journal that was in print from 19842015 and now has a growing number of back issues archived at inquiringmind.com. To remember the noted translator and author Steven D. Goodman, who died earlier this month at the age of 75, we are reprinting an essay Goodman wrote about worldly attitudes in Buddhism. The article first appeared in the Fall 1997 Liberation & the Sacred issue as Rejection, Sublimation, Recognition: Attitudes Toward Worldly Life. Be sure to check out related articles in the archive, such as Goodmans reflections on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, his musings on crazy wisdom, and his take on the Vajrayana path. If you feel so inclined, consider making a donation to help Inquiring Mind continue adding articles to its archive!
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We are what we think,
having become what we thought.
Dhammapada
Our Legacy of Received Opinions
What can one do about worldly suffering? Many Buddhist writings speak of disgust for that which is worldly. In much Buddhist parlance, things having to do with the world (Sanskrit: loka) are to be guarded against, avoided, turned away from and finally transcended, so that one can abide in a transworldly state (lokottara), at peace (shanti), in bliss (sukha), free from suffering (samsara), the painful flame of yearning (trishna) having been extinguished (nirvana). From this perspective, the world is a place of perpetually out-of-control beings who, driven by desires gone wild, try to endure the ups and downs as best they can. In fact, the Buddhist name for this world of ours is realm of endurance (sahaloka). In Mexico City Blues (211th Chorus), Jack Kerouac, that Western student of Buddhism, sings samsaras sad song.
The wheel of the quivering meat
conception
Turns in the void expelling human beings,
Pigs, turtles, frogs, insects, nits,
All the endless conception of living
beings,
Gnashing everywhere in Consciousness
Poor! I wish I was free
of that slaving meat wheel
and safe in heaven dead
It would seem that there is only one spiritual response to this mode of existence: to get out of worldly entanglements and to leave samsara.
But is this the whole story? Is this what Buddhism essentially teaches us about the world? Why has so much emphasis been put on repulsion toward worldly life? Why does Kerouacs depiction seem to ring so true? I would suggest it is because we in the West carry, like a dormant attitudinal virus, the legacy of a medieval mindset, one accustomed to the Platonic denigration of the lower appetites and to the many Biblical passages that speak of our plight as of a few days, and full of trouble (Job 13:28, 14:1) and the world as a fleeting show of vanities (Ecclesiastes). Worldly life is seen as sinful and contemptible. This contemptus mundi is amply attested to in the writings of many a medieval cleric. Typical of the period is the lamentation of the monk Jean de Fcamp (d. 1078): Miserable life, decrepit life, impure life sullied by humors, exhausted by grief, dried by heat, swollen by meats, mortified by fasts, dissolved by pranks, consumed by sadness, distressed by worries, blunted by security, bloated by riches, cast down by poverty.
Our more recent humanist tradition, which sees the individual as the measure of all things, has not entirely eclipsed the view of life as a fearful enterprise laced with sin and guilt. The pervasive influence of this mindset as a dominant cultural legacy deserves more attention by Buddhist scholars and practitioners, for it is a bias we bring to both our study and our experience of the dharma. It is well documented in the work of the French social historian Jean Delumeau. (See his Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture 13th18th Centuries.) When we orient ourselves to Buddhist traditions, we bring the legacy with us. And that, I think, is why talk of disgust for the world and the yearning to get out seems so spiritually correct. We are unmindfully viewing the wide variety of Buddhist spiritual traditions through the lens of a Christian, European heritage.
Repulsion, however, isnt the whole story. In the vast treasury of Buddhist traditions, there are other legacies, other attitudes and ways of talking about worldly life and spiritual work. The Buddhist path involves finding a suitable approach, one that honors our temperament and our potential for change.
One presentation of this variety, popular in the Buddhist traditions that took root in the Himalayan regions, consists of three possible spiritual orientations. The world can be shunned, transformed, or experienced as perfect just as it is. Only the first approach regards worldly life and the drives that fuel it as lacking value. The attitude of renunciation attempts to avoid and reject all worldly tendencies. The second approach, the attitude of transformation, regards worldly drives as worthy of spiritual engagement. Here one is encouraged to transform the worldly realm, which is seen to be constituted of both intellectual attitudes and emotional habits.
Whether one rejects or attempts to transform the world and its appetites, both perspectives suggest that life entails struggle. In psychological terms, the spiritual struggle with the world involves what Freud and, before him, Nietzsche, termed the sublimation of habitual drives. Nietzsche spoke of different methods of struggle with the violence of a drive Thus: dodging the opportunities [for its satisfaction], implanting regularity in the drive, generating oversaturation and disgust with it, and bringing about its association with an agonizing thoughtlike that of disgrace, evil consequences, or insulted pridethen the dislocation of forces, and finally general [self-]weakening and exhaustionthose are the six methods. (From Nietzsches The Dawn of Day.)
From the Buddhist perspective, renunciation and transformation are seen not as contradictory but as befitting different orientations and circumstances. As such, both are deemed noble (arya), because they lead one away from the extremes of nihilistic despair and cynicism on the one hand and self-centered absolutism on the other.
Renunciate Awareness
If one takes the approach that worldly life is a realm to be shunned, then the path of renunciation is appropriate. One trains oneself to guard the doors of perception, scanning for the arising of unwholesome tendencies so as to avoid them and thereby diminish their karmic residue. One practices calm and mindful avoidance in order to lessen upset and to let the subtle and luminous natural indwelling features of our being stabilize and, in time, become dominant.
Transformative Awareness
Using those very same doors of perception, one can view the world and its ceaseless variety of circumstances as the fuel for transformation. On this path one trains to identify worldly entanglements and upsets so as to be able to select and apply a suitable antidote (pratipatti). Through a kind of spiritual homeopathy, constricted emotional entanglement is released. This is done by dissolving egoic fixations in the universally beneficent solvents of love, compassion, joy and equanimity. One finds ways to wake up to the sufferings of the world and embrace them, never rejecting any aspect of daily life as if it were outside the project of spirit. All of creation is seen as the sacred ground for spiritual effort. This path is fed by the energetic stream that flows from the source of ones indwelling wakefulness, or buddhanature. The ever-widening stream of wakefulness overflows the limitations of egothe holding patterns (atma-graha) that reify and hence alienate our intrinsically abiding spirit of going beyond (paramita) those limitations. Our capacity to meet and dissolve habits is awakened and sustained by applying active capacities to go beyondgenerosity, ethical conduct, patient endurance, diligence, contemplative cultivation and discerning wisdom. Ultimately, every being and every problem is experienced as insubstantialpart of a magical display created by the mind and sustained by the power of karmic habits. As the Indian Buddhist philosopher Chandrakirti puts it: The mind itself creates living beings, and the great variety of worlds where they live. It is also taught that all forms of life are produced from karma; but without the mind, there would be no karma. (From his Madhyamakavatara.)
The world, then, is experienced as either an impure realm of entanglement dominated by habitual and limited mind patterns or as a pure realm of bliss sustained by unlimited wakefulness. But when reified confusion is released into clarity through the transformative power of the wakeful mind, nirvana and samsara are not experienced as separate states.
One who trains in going beyond all frustrating limits is sustained in the work by the blessings of our own discerning wisdom (prajna), which is seen as flawless (amala) and luminous (prabhasvara). The name reserved for one who has completely awakened such wisdom is Buddha. Buddha is a powerfully sustaining presence that is responsive to the needs of beings who suffer. Buddhas serve as sources of refuge and objects of prayerful supplication. They are said to abide in and support every pure realm. Those who cultivate an attitude of transformation may invite the spiritual presence of these Buddhas into their daily lives. Remembrance of the Buddha (Buddhanusmrti), is an antidote to spiritual despair; mindful faith in our spiritual capacity valorizes worldly micro hassles via acts of remembrance. Not unlike those who repeat the Jesus Prayer, Buddhists who enter the path of transformation find that they are sustained by subtle mindful mnemonics.
Directly Liberating Awareness
The third noble attitude toward worldly life is radically different from those of rejection and transformation. It is one of direct liberation. Here the world and ones place in it are directly recognized as free, unlimited and unconstrained just as they are. Every mode of experience, every situation is freeing. Whatever arises is recognized as it arises and in that recognition is freed. There is nothing to reject and nothing to accept. Things just happenbeyond every scheme for improvement, beyond yearning and hope for betterment. When experienced like this, all occasions are delightful, the cause of merriment and laughter. The Buddha Shakyamuni was known as the one who laughs and the fourteenth-century Buddhist savant Longchenpa reminded us, When we see the world as it really is, then we will laugh out loud. This is the naturally abiding manner of Buddhas: spiritual energy enjoying itself and communicating everywhere with laughter. It is the mystic mode, reserved for those rare gifted souls who live in the world free from all compulsion to transcend it, who have realized the truth of freedom in the ordinary. They are sustained by a continuum of spiritual awareness, for like the saints and mystics of every tradition, they exhibit unshakable confidence in the pure unbounded ecstasy and delight of living. This way of living dissolves every tendency to go astray into distorted modes of perception and response; it is beyond limitations based on clinging and aversion. Yet this is not a transcendent stance. It is the direct recognition of how things naturally abide as Buddha energy inand asthis present moment, which is open, effulgent and continuous.
This brief survey of Buddhist attitudes toward the world and transworldly yearning is an attempt to convey a sense of the range of approaches reflected in the traditions. I would suggest that each of these approaches can be found within every living Buddhist tradition when dogma yields to direct experience. As such, no approach is higher or lower; each perfectly fits a certain temperament and capacity. Perhaps the greatest challenge is to discover as best as one can the noble approach for which one is best suited and to honor and accept the wide diversity of other approaches to the dilemma of human existence.
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Table of Content: Chapter 1 Industry Overview 1.1 Definition 1.2 Assumptions 1.3 Research Scope 1.4 Market Analysis by Regions 1.4.1 North America Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.2 East Asia Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.3 Europe Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.4 South Asia Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.5 Southeast Asia Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.6 Middle East Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.7 Africa Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.8 Oceania Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.4.9 South America Market States and Outlook (2021-2026) 1.5 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Size Analysis from 2021 to 2026 1.5.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Size Analysis from 2021 to 2026 by Consumption Volume 1.5.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Size Analysis from 2021 to 2026 by Value 1.5.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Price Trends Analysis from 2021 to 2026 1.6 COVID-19 Outbreak: Cold Chain Monitoring Industry Impact
Chapter 2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Competition by Types, Applications, and Top Regions and Countries 2.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring (Volume and Value) by Type 2.1.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Market Share by Type (2015-2020) 2.1.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue and Market Share by Type (2015-2020) 2.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring (Volume and Value) by Application 2.2.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Market Share by Application (2015-2020) 2.2.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue and Market Share by Application (2015-2020) 2.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring (Volume and Value) by Regions 2.3.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Market Share by Regions (2015-2020) 2.3.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue and Market Share by Regions (2015-2020)
Chapter 3 Production Market Analysis 3.1 Global Production Market Analysis 3.1.1 2015-2020 Global Capacity, Production, Capacity Utilization Rate, Ex-Factory Price, Revenue, Cost, Gross and Gross Margin Analysis 3.1.2 2015-2020 Major Manufacturers Performance and Market Share 3.2 Regional Production Market Analysis 3.2.1 2015-2020 Regional Market Performance and Market Share 3.2.2 North America Market 3.2.3 East Asia Market 3.2.4 Europe Market 3.2.5 South Asia Market 3.2.6 Southeast Asia Market 3.2.7 Middle East Market 3.2.8 Africa Market 3.2.9 Oceania Market 3.2.10 South America Market 3.2.11 Rest of the World Market
Chapter 4 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import by Regions (2015-2020) 4.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Regions (2015-2020) 4.2 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.3 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.4 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.5 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.6 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.7 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.8 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.9 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020) 4.10 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Sales, Consumption, Export, Import (2015-2020)
Chapter 5 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 5.1 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 5.1.1 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 5.2 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 5.3 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 5.4 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 5.4.1 United States Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 5.4.2 Canada Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 5.4.3 Mexico Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 6 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 6.1 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 6.1.1 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 6.2 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 6.3 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 6.4 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 6.4.1 China Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 6.4.2 Japan Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 6.4.3 South Korea Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 7 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 7.1 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 7.1.1 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 7.2 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 7.3 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 7.4 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 7.4.1 Germany Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.2 UK Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.3 France Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.4 Italy Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.5 Russia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.6 Spain Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.7 Netherlands Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.8 Switzerland Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 7.4.9 Poland Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 8 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 8.1 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 8.1.1 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 8.2 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 8.3 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 8.4 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 8.4.1 India Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 8.4.2 Pakistan Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 8.4.3 Bangladesh Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 9 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 9.1 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 9.1.1 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 9.2 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 9.3 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 9.4 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 9.4.1 Indonesia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.2 Thailand Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.3 Singapore Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.4 Malaysia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.5 Philippines Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.6 Vietnam Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 9.4.7 Myanmar Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 10 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 10.1 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 10.1.1 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 10.2 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 10.3 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 10.4 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 10.4.1 Turkey Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.2 Saudi Arabia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.3 Iran Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.4 United Arab Emirates Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.5 Israel Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.6 Iraq Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.7 Qatar Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.8 Kuwait Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 10.4.9 Oman Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 11 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 11.1 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 11.1.1 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 11.2 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 11.3 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 11.4 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 11.4.1 Nigeria Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.2 South Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.3 Egypt Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.4 Algeria Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 11.4.5 Morocco Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 12 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 12.1 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 12.2 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 12.3 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 12.4 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption by Top Countries 12.4.1 Australia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 12.4.2 New Zealand Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 13 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Analysis 13.1 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption and Value Analysis 13.1.1 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Market Under COVID-19 13.2 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Types 13.3 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Structure by Application 13.4 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume by Major Countries 13.4.1 Brazil Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.2 Argentina Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.3 Columbia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.4 Chile Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.5 Venezuela Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.6 Peru Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.7 Puerto Rico Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020 13.4.8 Ecuador Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume from 2015 to 2020
Chapter 14 Company Profiles and Key Figures in Cold Chain Monitoring Business 14.1 Sensitech, Inc. 14.1.1 Sensitech, Inc. Company Profile 14.1.2 Sensitech, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.1.3 Sensitech, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.2 NXP Semiconductors NV 14.2.1 NXP Semiconductors NV Company Profile 14.2.2 NXP Semiconductors NV Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.2.3 NXP Semiconductors NV Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.3 Rotronic 14.3.1 Rotronic Company Profile 14.3.2 Rotronic Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.3.3 Rotronic Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.4 ORBCOMM 14.4.1 ORBCOMM Company Profile 14.4.2 ORBCOMM Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.4.3 ORBCOMM Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.5 Nietzsche Enterprise 14.5.1 Nietzsche Enterprise Company Profile 14.5.2 Nietzsche Enterprise Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.5.3 Nietzsche Enterprise Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.6 Testo 14.6.1 Testo Company Profile 14.6.2 Testo Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.6.3 Testo Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.7 Haier Biomedical 14.7.1 Haier Biomedical Company Profile 14.7.2 Haier Biomedical Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.7.3 Haier Biomedical Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.8 Emerson 14.8.1 Emerson Company Profile 14.8.2 Emerson Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.8.3 Emerson Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.9 ELPRO-BUCHS AG 14.9.1 ELPRO-BUCHS AG Company Profile 14.9.2 ELPRO-BUCHS AG Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.9.3 ELPRO-BUCHS AG Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.10 Signatrol 14.10.1 Signatrol Company Profile 14.10.2 Signatrol Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.10.3 Signatrol Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.11 Omega 14.11.1 Omega Company Profile 14.11.2 Omega Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.11.3 Omega Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.12 Oceasoft 14.12.1 Oceasoft Company Profile 14.12.2 Oceasoft Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.12.3 Oceasoft Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.13 Monnit Corporation 14.13.1 Monnit Corporation Company Profile 14.13.2 Monnit Corporation Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.13.3 Monnit Corporation Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.14 Duoxieyun 14.14.1 Duoxieyun Company Profile 14.14.2 Duoxieyun Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.14.3 Duoxieyun Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.15 Dickson 14.15.1 Dickson Company Profile 14.15.2 Dickson Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.15.3 Dickson Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.16 LogTag Recorders Ltd 14.16.1 LogTag Recorders Ltd Company Profile 14.16.2 LogTag Recorders Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.16.3 LogTag Recorders Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.17 Berlinger & Co AG 14.17.1 Berlinger & Co AG Company Profile 14.17.2 Berlinger & Co AG Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.17.3 Berlinger & Co AG Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.18 The IMC Group Ltd 14.18.1 The IMC Group Ltd Company Profile 14.18.2 The IMC Group Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.18.3 The IMC Group Ltd Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.19 ZeDA Instruments 14.19.1 ZeDA Instruments Company Profile 14.19.2 ZeDA Instruments Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.19.3 ZeDA Instruments Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.20 Cold Chain Technologies 14.20.1 Cold Chain Technologies Company Profile 14.20.2 Cold Chain Technologies Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.20.3 Cold Chain Technologies Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.21 Jucsan 14.21.1 Jucsan Company Profile 14.21.2 Jucsan Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.21.3 Jucsan Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.22 Controlant Ehf 14.22.1 Controlant Ehf Company Profile 14.22.2 Controlant Ehf Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.22.3 Controlant Ehf Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.23 SecureRF Corp. 14.23.1 SecureRF Corp. Company Profile 14.23.2 SecureRF Corp. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.23.3 SecureRF Corp. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.24 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring 14.24.1 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring Company Profile 14.24.2 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.24.3 vTrack Cold Chain Monitoring Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.25 Zest Labs, Inc. 14.25.1 Zest Labs, Inc. Company Profile 14.25.2 Zest Labs, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.25.3 Zest Labs, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.26 Gemalto 14.26.1 Gemalto Company Profile 14.26.2 Gemalto Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.26.3 Gemalto Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.27 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. 14.27.1 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. Company Profile 14.27.2 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.27.3 Maven Systems Pvt.Ltd. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020) 14.28 Infratab, Inc. 14.28.1 Infratab, Inc. Company Profile 14.28.2 Infratab, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Product Specification 14.28.3 Infratab, Inc. Cold Chain Monitoring Production Capacity, Revenue, Price and Gross Margin (2015-2020)
Chapter 15 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Market Forecast (2021-2026) 15.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Price Forecast (2021-2026) 15.1.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.1.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Value and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Value and Growth Rate Forecast by Region (2021-2026) 15.2.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume and Growth Rate Forecast by Regions (2021-2026) 15.2.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Value and Growth Rate Forecast by Regions (2021-2026) 15.2.3 North America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.4 East Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.5 Europe Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.6 South Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.7 Southeast Asia Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.8 Middle East Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.9 Africa Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.10 Oceania Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.2.11 South America Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Growth Rate Forecast (2021-2026) 15.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume, Revenue and Price Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.3.1 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.3.2 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Revenue Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.3.3 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Price Forecast by Type (2021-2026) 15.4 Global Cold Chain Monitoring Consumption Volume Forecast by Application (2021-2026) 15.5 Cold Chain Monitoring Market Forecast Under COVID-19
Chapter 16 Conclusions Research Methodology
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The Age of Enlightenment was a period in European history from the end of the 17th to the end of the 18th century when Western philosophers and scientists wrestled with concepts of 'human nature' and 'natural rights'. Some argued that all people had inherent social and political rights but many more advocated for the reordering of social hierarchies using 'scientific' proof to divide people through the identification of 'natural' differences such as gender and race. Much of the oppression and imperialism that marked the period was supported by these ideas.
"Throughout the 18th century, Western fashion, including footwear, was central to the 'naturalization' of difference in Europe," says Elizabeth Semmelhack, Creative Director and Senior Curator at the Bata Shoe Museum. "Distinctions between men and women, children and adults, Europeans and 'Others' became increasingly codified through clothing. Yet, European fashion was also used to blur the lines between classes as social mobility and access to consumable goods grew as a result of imperialism."
The exhibition was thoughtfully designed by the award-winning designers Arc + Co who focused on creating a space that engages with the powerful themes and issues of the 18th century explored in this gallery. With loans from the Gardiner Museum, the design also includes a look at contemporary footwear, asking visitors to reflect on shoes and society today. Highlights include:
The BSM thanks partners Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund and the Toronto Star. More information about The Great Divide can be found here, along with a teaser video here.
Celebrating 25 years of the World at Your Feet with a growing international collection of over 14,000 shoes and related artefacts, the Bata Shoe Museum showcases 4,500 years of footwear history. batashoemuseum.ca, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook YouTube channel
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Justin E. H. Smiths most recent book, Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason, addresses beliefs about politics, gender, nature and reason by opposing the discourse of fundamental irrationality with accepted forms of rationality. Smith believes that the dialectical tension between the two is paramount owing to the inevitable rise of irrationality, which has proliferated in the face of our desire to purge it. As Yascha Mounk, the American-German political thinker, writes, the book is an urgent warning that no grand design of perfect rationality can provide the solution to the depravity of this political moment.
The order of human history, from the beginning up to the present perversion of rational thinking by all manners Trump, has a catastrophic impact on the well- being of humanity. The loss of faith in the structures of democracy points to an apocalyptic end. The effort to model society on rational principles has not fructified, going by the long and cyclic dark history of civilisation, of wars and violence, of religious fanaticism and irrationality. Our inherently dialectical history confirms the simultaneous birth of opposing forces at the outset of the assertion of any truth: The thing desired contains its opposite. Thus the trajectory of liberal democracy evolving into totalitarianism was present in the brute forces of Italian fascism or German Nazism. The dearth of ideology is reflected in the irrational outburst of our times, particularly with the birth of vulgar nationalist fervour and muscular racial superiority.
Smith offers the example of how mathematics was demonised in the 5th century BC for its dependence on numbers and decimal series that were endless and irrational. Anyone who believed in mathematics was drowned at sea in the Gulf of Taranto. The drowning of Hipposus, a Pythogorean philosopher, about a century before Socrates explains the upsurge of irrationality in the face of the pursuit of a science that, in later centuries, would usher in the Age of Enlightenment.
Citing the example of the discovery of a human bone at the beginning of Stanley Kubricks 1969 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, Smith calls attention to the realisation by a protohuman creature of the value of a bone as a lethal weapon but also as a tool for survival. Similarly, technological breakthroughs bring along a world of comfort or misery, peace or violence, rationality or irrationality.
Something clicks in the mind of a person and then nothing is the same, especially when you attain new power and knowledge that can be used for new occasions for violence. All knowledge, therefore, has brought out the best and the worst in us, a balance of problem solving and problem creating in the service of the most exalted faculties of the human mind that become occasions for the flexing of muscle and, when this is not enough, the raining down of blows. This is the age-old record of human rationality, and therefore also of its irrationality, the exaltation of reason, and a desire to eradicate its opposite.
Take the example of the cultural frenzy of the cyber world that intensified into an unforeseeable landscape of customs and mores, underlain by new political norms and new institutional structures visible in the ideology of the white supremacists, Brexit fanatics or the ultra-nationalists gripped by the narrow boundaries of identity politics.
A world overwhelmed by the use of the Internet allows anyone to get on it, make a noise and change the world for the worse. Instead of the improved access to what we had valued, the Internet has succeeded through its accelerationism in destroying the world of journalism, academia, commerce and publishing industries, thereby disrupting and forever altering the nature of what we have always valued.
In his diatribe against the misuse of the Internet, Smith opines that although initially it was hoped that the Internet would provide some form of collective will and deliberation, it has drowned humanity in the quagmire of an unpredictable response to level-headed statements with the rise of sheer abuse and often concerted and massive campaigns of abuse...from some sock puppet labouring away at a Russian troll farm, working to insinuate some new falsehood into public consciousness. Reasoned arguments are few and far between, and the epidemic of images, allusions and jokes form the basis of a narrative deeply aimed towards the distortion of reality.
Smith considers the Internet today a far darker place where the normal and predictable response to reasonable statements is, if it is coming from strangers, sheer abuse, and often concerted and massive campaigns of abuse; if it is coming from friends, then it is generally vacuous supportiveness, sheer boosterism with no critical engagement or respectful dissent.
Can we finally come to the conclusion that what makes human beings unique is our irrationality? Apart from the damage caused by outrageous reasoning, Smith underlines the human aspect of our self-interest and existential choices based on expected outcomes.Why then does a father offer to vacate his space for his child on a lifeboat? This expression of irrationality, argues Smith, surpasses the realm of good and evil:Life would be unlivable if they were suppressed entirely. Smoking a cigarette or climbing a cliff without a rope seems ludicrous. Irrationality, Smith asserts, is in itself neither left nor right, nor good nor bad. It is a twin of reason and therefore equally vital to human development.
The rational thought propagated during the Enlightenment fails to hold up in an era of senseless pursuits coupled with our unrelenting predisposition to irrationality. The history of human civilisation is witness to the struggle between the forces of rational and irrational thought and the author has made a compelling case for the inevitability and value of the existence of both in our lives. His warning in the end is what humanity must heed: We are, then, not so far from where Hippasus found himself millennia ago. The Greeks discovered the irrationality at the heart of geometry; we have most recently discovered the irrationality at the heart of the algorithm, or at least the impossibility of applying algorithms to human life while avoiding their weaponisation by the forces of irrationality. If we were not possessed of such a strong will to believe that our technological discoveries and our conceptual progress might have the power to chase irrationality, uncertainty, and disorder from our livesif, that is, we could learn to be more philosophical about our human situationthen we would likely be far better positioned to avoid the violent recoil that always seems to follow upon our greatest innovations, upon bagging the great hunting trophies of our reason.
The book is a fascinating narrative, ranging across philosophy, politics and current events.This intertexuality defies the received assumptions of philosophy, science and Enlightenment with the central focus on the transitory nature of the triumph of reason. Understandably, the Enlightenment had built into its very essence the curse of racism and the white supremacist mindset that resulted in the imperialist scheme of dominance through the manifesto of the civilising mission. No wonder that such a political and cultural world-view set humanity towards the irrational path of genocide, war and totalitarianism. The paradox therefore lies in the fact that along with these dark forces that the Enlightenment unleashed, there was also the birth of the liberal ideas of anti-slavery as well as the malaise of materialism overtaking the world. Humanity, indeed, has failed to draw the rational or right inferences from the perceived facts and has carved out for itself a dialectical history of tensions and ambiguities, of madness and sanity, of liberal thinking and totalitarianism.
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The Bata Shoe Museums Latest Exhibit Focuses on 18th Century Footwears Influence in the Age of Enlightenment – Footwear News
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The Bata Shoe Museum, which officially reopened last month in Toronto, is kicking off its first show of the season with The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment.
The Canadian museum will explore how fashion and footwear, played a central role in defining the 18th century. The exhibition features shoes from around the world that are over 300 years old. The Great Divide is the first of three shows the museum plans to open as part of its 25th-anniversary schedule.
Throughout the 18th century, Western fashion, including footwear, was central to the naturalization of difference in Europe, said Elizabeth Semmelhack, the creative director and senior curator at the Bata Shoe Museum.
The Great Divide explores issues of gender and race through the lens of imperialism and colonization. The exhibit features 18th-century artifacts that highlight the complicated histories of privilege, danger and resistance that continue to be timely, 300 years later.
An 18th century Indian English womens sandal from the Bata Shoe Museums The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment exhibit.
Some highlights of the show include the evolution of the Indian jutti sandal and how it influenced English footwear during Great Britains colonial period. Another memorable pair from the exhibit are moccasins that were said to have belonged to a Myammi leader Little Turtle who occupied the Northwest territory of the United States during the 18th century. He led one of the worst defeats against the U.S. when defending Myammi territory at the Battle of Wabash in 1791.
This moccasin is said to have belonged to Myaamia leader Mishikinawa, also known as Little Turtle, and is currently on display at the Bata Shoe Museum.
The show also includes loans from the Gardiner Museum as well as contemporary footwear that reflect how shoes continue to symbolize shifts in society today. The exhibition was designed by award-winning designers Arc + Co and curated by Elizabeth Semmelhack, the senior curator and creative director of the Bata Shoe Museum.
The Great Divide: Footwear in the Age of Enlightenment is open until Feb. 2021. For more information about the exhibition and how to purchase tickets, head to batashoemuseum.ca.
Cant make it to the museum? Weve rounded up some of the best shoes featured in the exhibit for you. Luckily, the Bata Shoe Museum also has a few virtual exhibits online. Shows include Standing Tall: The Curious History of Men in Heels in partnership with Google Arts and Culture, On Canadian Ground: Stories of Footwear in Early Canada and its semi-permanent on-display collection All About Shoes.
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