Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Baalbek:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baalbek
The new world clashes with the old, and on its path there is destruction.
This sounds as the mother of generalizations.
What images are seen on broadcast media are mostly forms of propaganda enforcing
this new world order. The order is WESTERNIZE. ADVANCE.
erasing cultural heritage.
And here I will quote my favorite, Mr Walter Bejamin. a Jew.
¶ 4:28 PM 
The new world clashes with the old, and on its path there is destruction.
This sounds as the mother of generalizations.
What images are seen on broadcast media are mostly forms of propaganda enforcing
this new world order. The order is WESTERNIZE. ADVANCE.
erasing cultural heritage.
And here I will quote my favorite, Mr Walter Bejamin. a Jew.
| IX | |||
| My wing is ready for flight, I would like to turn back.If I stayed timeless time, I would have little luck. | Mein Flügel ist zum Schwung bereit, ich kehrte gern zurück, denn blieb ich auch lebendige Zeit, ich hätte wenig Glück. Gerherd Scholem, ‘Gruss vom Angelus’ | ||
| A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. | |||
| Click here to see a screen version of | |||
