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...describe the ideology of the "White Man's Burden." An unequal conflict is depicted between the Britisher, "arrogant, triumphant, an industrial success," who attributes his prosperity to "biological and moral superiority," and the African, who from 1828-1875 was "not only weak, but throughly demoralized and degraded by the slave trade...
...only society, apart from some primitive ones, that distinctly approved homosexual love was 5th century Greece. "We must blush for Greece," said the enlightened Voltaire. Even this much publicized example has often been overinterpreted. The homosexuality that Socrates and Plato knew rose only with the development of a slave culture and the downgrading of women to the level of uneducated domestics. This resulted in a romantic cult of the beautiful young boy-but not to the exclusion of heterosexual relations -much as the restriction of women to purdah led to a high incidence of pederasty in the Middle East, which...
...synonymous with armaments. The Krupp plants produced the weapons that helped Hitler ravage Europe; by the end of World War II most of the Krupp factories lay in ruins, pounded into rubble by Allied bombers, and Alfried Krupp himself was sentenced to twelve years in prison for employing slave labor in his factories. Krupp was released in 1951, after serving only half his sentence; at that time he pledged that he would never again make another gun or another bullet...
...Slave of Perception. Giacometti was never satisfied by the search. He considered none of his sculptures complete, often in a frenzy of frustration ended up smashing them by the dozen. Only about 200 originals exist today. Said the sculptor: "If I work from life, I see a little bit at a time. And it is al ways changing. Try as I may, it never looks the same to me. So how can I finish?" He became the slave of his own changing perceptions. At times, in pursuit of a likeness, he carved the plaster until it disintegrated into dust between...
...things-money and women. He did not make his own living until his 30th year. ("I did not throw myself into the struggle for life. I threw my mother into it. I made a man of myself [at my mother's expense] instead of a slave," he wrote.) He did not lose his virginity until his 29th birthday, as a direct consequence, he protested, of having bought a respectable suit of clothes. "Virgo intacta still," he confided to his diary before the event. "Forced caresses," he noted gloomily a few days later, true to his ungallant belief that woman...