Word: guilts
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...There is a quip ascribed to the Israeli psychoanalyst Zvi Rex: "The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz," meaning that Germans (and all of Europe that let it happen) do not want to live under the burden of the Holocaust forever. Hence the projection of a guilt - as most recently executed by Martin Hohmann - that evens the score and lightens the burden of moral responsibility. If this is the bad news, what is the good news? It is obvious: the demise of "classical" anti-Semitism in Europe - of persecution, expulsion and murder. These fires have burned out. After...
...World War II, proposes two sides to commemorating war dead like Sannwald and his peers. “It’s appropriate to be inclusive,” says Chapman, but inclusiveness is also “a strategy to evade…issues of responsibility and guilt. Even when people face terrible choices, no one is quite let off the hook...
...attack on parliament. Nonetheless, in December 2002, a special court trying terrorism cases sentenced him to death, along with Guru and Afzal. But last week Geelani, 41, was set free by a New Delhi appeals court, which said the evidence did "not even remotely" point toward his guilt. Human-rights activists were unsurprised, saying the government has used draconian anti-terrorism laws to harass Muslims and other minorities for years...
...Guilt-free file sharing has finally arrived. But be warned—between exhausting a stranger’s Bjork collection and finding true love, iTunes has made the library the new KaZaA, minus the shady legal qualms. What was once a procrastination device for the dorm room has now expanded to even that most hallowed of study spaces. I guess we’ll just have to learn to discipline ourselves…but first I’m going to finish listening to The White Album. Sorry...
...fame as the first and biggest hardcore porn star: he has become just another junkie desperate for his next score. Through a variety of mysterious circumstances, he ends up enlisted by both of his drug dealers as they and their gangs attack each other. Holmes’ relative guilt in both actions is questioned in Rashomon-like flashbacks that see the past through very different perspectives. Until the very end, we are only clear about the strong sleaziness that pervades this man. Wonderland demonstrates how truly awful humans can be; it shows us our own world, making it that much...