Thinking about the #AmericanExperiment and #WesternCivilization.

It's produced some wonders. (See below.)
And horrors and brutality beyond measure.
The #USA was meant to be progressing to a #MorePerfectUnion.

The #Marketing of #Spectacle by the #CorporateMedia has something entirely different to a more perfect union being cemented today.

To what extent has the good stuff functioned to distract from the basic brutality of our civilzation?

#RalphWilliams #Oresteia
https://youtu.be/97C60exFH6A?si=YztiQEz1VDvpnprv

"The dehumanisation of the “other”, and the desire for revenge over justice, is a feature not simply of Hamas policy. It is woven into Israeli perspectives, too, and from the very top"
Another excellent column from Kenan Malik that I missed yesterday.
#Israel #Gaza #Oresteia

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/05/in-middle-east-as-in-greek-tragedy-justice-must-prevail-over-moral-absolutism?CMP=GTUK_email

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#MastodonHasStopped and thereby saved a post with an image of a Trojan Horse from the following reply:

How about barely associable?
I specialise in that.

That horse statue reminds me of the importance given to grief and revenge in #Aeschylus' tragedies, the #Oresteia.

I'm going to re-state #SimonCritchley's important work as being how the proto-Modernist project of separating off emotions from what is considered the proper understanding of reality goes back at least to #Socrates.

Lueskelin kirjastossa Edwin Linkomiehen Aiskhyloksen #Oresteia'n suomennokseen kirjoittaman esipuheen. Kylläpä kirjoitti juohevasti etenevää #asiaproosa'a, oikein sydäntä lämmitti.

Oresteia tuli nyt lukulistalle, vaikka Linkomieskin moitteena huomauttaa Elina Vaaran suomennoksen tehdyn vain Emil Zilliacuksen ruotsinnoksesta. #kotijuttuja #kirjallisuus #klassikot #aiskhylos

"A translator's best hope, I think, and still the hardest to achieve, is Dryden's hope that his author will speak the living language of the day. And not in a way that caters to its limits, one might add, but that gives its life and fibre something of a stretching in the process."

- Robert Fagles' Preface to his version of The Oresteia (1976).

#RobertFagles #Oresteia #Agamemnon #TheLibationBearers #TheEumenides #AncientGreek #bookstodon @bookstodon