What unites all fundamentalists is an over-riding commitment to a sacred text, through which all of truth must be interpreted. The sacred text cannot be questioned; only obeyed. Nigel Pocock In the past the word ‘fanatick’ (sic) meant an ‘enthusiast’ and it usually seems to have had an […]
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How violent systems maintain themselves
The Nazis hid their crimes behind the famous legend that ‘Work makes free’. Indeed! But both agreed that extermination was the only suitable outcome. Nigel Pocock It has long fascinated historians and others how such an apparently sophisticated society as ancient Rome could also be so barbaric, an […]
Praise to forgetfulness
Fanatical fans are from everywhere not only here in this country of crazy, violent, passionate people… without passion, they want to see themselves reflected in the heroic ball-playing characters, but the next day they still don’t agree on anything. Armando Orozco Tovar Forgetfullness should be in the words […]
Stereotyping, or the art of domination
By ‘stereotyping’, we refer to labelling a person or culture with particular characteristics, whether ‘good’ or ‘bad’. In education, it is said that the student becomes ‘what the label denotes’. Nigel Pocock The label therefore becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. A student labelled an ‘idiot’ becomes one. There are […]
Latin America and mixed heritage
“We are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). – Claudio Chipana – People of mixed heritage, mestizos, are a challenge to racial purity and the idea of a monolithic nation. […]
















