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This gorgeous Urushi Lacquer Bathtub is part of the Furo Project by designers Ryu Kosaka and Yukio Hashimoto, a project with the aim to spread the appreciation for hot baths as more than just a routine but as a way to relax and connect.
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Newcastle owner Mike Ashley was spoken to by police after downing a pint of beer during his side's defeat to Arsenal on Saturday.
Drinking alcohol in a Premier League stadium in view of the pitch is banned but the billionaire will not face charges, as Ashley has claimed he thought he was drinking non-alcoholic beer.
Caught in the act: Ashley finishes off his pint
'We received a complaint from a member of the public during the Arsenal versus Newcastle Premier League match,' said a Metropolitan police spokesman.
'Following this complaint a man received words of advice for consuming alcohol in a prohibited area.'
Arsenal do not sell non-alcoholic beer and a spokeswoman said: 'In line with club policy, Mr Ashley was taken from his seat, at which time he was not in possession of alcohol, and into the concourse area of the stadium where he was spoken to and formally warned about his actions.
'If the respective supporter is not viewed first hand it is difficult to prove the contents of the container by watching television footage and as a consequence, we feel the action taken on Saturday was satisfactory and a proportionate response to the incident.'
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae can exacerbate asthma, and recent evidence indicates that a subset of patients with chronic asthma are polymerase chain reaction positive for the organism and show marked improvement on treatment with clarithromycin. We examined the interactions of the organism with surfactant protein (SP)-A and SP-D, two bronchoalveolar proteins that are potent modulators of the innate immune response. SP-A and SP-D are pattern recognition molecules, and their effects on innate immunity can be either positive or negative depending on the activation state of the target cell and the nature of the microbial ligand. SP-D binds intact mycoplasma and membranes derived from the organism with high affinity (apparent dissociation constant = 7.0 nmol/L). Characterization of the ligands present in membranes reveals that several glycolipid species are recognized by SP-D. SP-A also binds mycoplasma membranes with high affinity (apparent dissociation constant = 0.3 nmol/L), and the ligands are lipids that are different from those bound by SP-D. Macrophages respond to intact mycoplasma and derived membranes by secreting tumor necrosis factor-α and nitric oxide. Purification and characterization of the major macrophage activation factor from mycoplasma reveals that it is a membrane lipoprotein that acts through Toll-like receptor 2. SP-A enhances the response of macrophages to mycoplasma membranes and lipoprotein preparations by increasing the tumor necrosis factor-α response threefold and the nitric oxide response 2.5-fold. These findings indicate that mycoplasma can potentially promote inflammation in the lung by binding SP-D and neutralizing its anti-inflammatory effects, and by interacting with SP-A and macrophages and enhancing the release of proinflammatory mediators.
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FURTHER evidence of a mid-year cash crisis in the health service emerged yesterday, when the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford said it was delaying or postponing non-urgent surgery.
The hospital is treating only emergency cases. Hundreds of patients who need non-urgent surgery such as hip replacements, hysterectomies and hernias, must wait until the next financial year starts on 1 April 1993.
The hospital has 'over-performed' in the first six months of this financial year. It has completed all the operations that Oxfordshire Health Authority had agreed to pay for. Tony Stapleton, general manager at the John Radcliffe, said: 'Since 1 April we have treated 23,000 in-patients. If we continue to treat at this rate we would treat 1,500 patients more than we have been contracted for. We have got to slow down.'
The British Medical Association warned last week that many hospitals around the country were in a similar position. There had been widespread cancellation of operations, and bed closures, with some patients being denied treatment unless they were registered with a budget-holding practice.
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American Honda Motor Co. posted a 5-percent year-on-year increase in sales in May 2013 to 140,013 vehicles, thanks to high demand for the recently redesigned Accord sedan and coupe. The Honda brand posted a 5-percent increase in May sales to 125,649 units while the Acura brand suffered a 2-percent fall to 14,364 units. Although Honda managed to sell 33,218 Accords in May 2013 for a 12-percent jump, it failed to top its biggest rival, the Toyota Camry which sales was at 39,216 for the month.
Honda's other models also helped the brand post higher sales in May 2013. The Honda CR-V was up 8 percent in the month, while Odyssey and Pilot surged 15 percent and 11 percent respectively. The Honda Civic, meanwhile, succumbed to 10-percent drop in the month to 30,268 units, partly due to the brand's decision to cut incentives to nearly zero on the car.
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The Middle Distance, 3/25/11: The Best I Can
By Noel Black On March 25, 2011 · 8 Comments · In A Big Something, Kathryn Eastburn, Personal Essay, The Middle Distance
The Middle Distance 3.24.11: "The Best She Could"
She did the best she could. This catch phrase, this sodden cliché used to rankle me. It reeked of insincerity, of implied failure. It felt like an apology for a life poorly lived. At least that's how I heard it when I was younger and believed that the best was yet to come and that it was within my power to seize and deliver it.
Little did I know that out here in the middle distance it represents the truth about most lives. You do the best you can with what you've got.
Two weeks ago, my cousin Maurice died at 72. The obituary said he passed following a brief illness. The truth is that Maurice was born at home in 1938, way out in the country, with no medical assistance, and he lived a long and vigorous life with severe cerebral palsy. When I was growing up, I saw him nearly every Sunday when my family loaded into the station wagon and traveled across the Kentucky border to visit relatives in Tennessee.
Maurice's mother, Aunt Bernice, fed us ham and potato salad and coconut cake, and bossed everyone around like a drill sergeant. She worked as a licensed practical nurse at the local hospital delivery room and pronounced judgment on the qualifications of every young mother to raise a child. "She ain't fit to tie her own shoes," she'd declare, or in a more tender moment, "She's a good little mother."
Maurice walked and talked and ate and dressed and moved through life laboriously — like a tightly coiled spring that never relaxed. He took great pleasure in telling jokes and never quit until he reached the punchline, no matter how weary his audience from the effort of following his tortured speech. He loved country music and never missed the Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night radio. He didn't go to school, because where he lived they didn't have schools for people like him. But he read voraciously and taught himself to type, and at age 62, earned his GED.
What the obituary didn't say was this: After his father died, Maurice's mother cared for him ferociously and single-handedly. She challenged him and doted on him. When she got old and he reached middle age, she determined that he'd be better off living in a group home where he'd have a social life and a job. And when he was abused in his first group home, she marched straight to the State House and demanded that Maurice be repaid for the suffering he incurred at the hands of one of their employees. She fought for his life until she won, and for the rest of his life she talked to him every day and monitored his care like a hawk.
Aunt Bernice is in her 90s now and recently moved from the red brick house we visited every Sunday to a nursing care facility, a nice one with a pretty name. She fought it at first, telling the attendants they might as well have left her on the concrete steps where she fell and let her die as put her in a home. But after a few weeks, she began to like it except for the food. Her bedroom furniture surrounding her and her basic needs attended to, her only worry was Maurice. When he died, she told my mother she was relieved. She hadn't died before him. She'd done the best she could.
A few years ago, I wrote and published a book, a harrowing true story about a group of teenage boys whose bad decisions resulted in three deaths, a lifetime of punishment, and a ripple effect of suffering for all the families involved. It was a tough book and its publication marked the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
But just as the book was undergoing final edits, my life stopped when my 22-year old son died of suicide. The publication of my book, four months later, came and went like a dream and not a good one. I walked through the motions. I talked on the radio and gave a few readings and trudged through the fog of my own grief. That book I had worked on for five years was a ghost to me.
Last week, for the first time since I finished writing it, I re-read my book. I was scared to read it, afraid of what I might find there. But there it was, good and strong and surprisingly life affirming. I finished it with a strange sense of satisfaction and no regrets. I had done the best I could.
Kathryn Eastburn is the author of A Sacred Feaest: Reflections of Sacred Harp Singing and Dinner on the Ground, and Simon Says: A True Story of Boys and Murder in the Rocky Mountain West. You can comment and read or listen to this column again at The Big Something at KRCC.org. "The Middle Distance" is published every Friday on The Big Something and airs each Saturday at 1 p.m. right after This American Life.
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Eva says:
oh, lovely!!
pat says:
thank you for this…though it brings tears to my eyes.
Nancy says:
It sounds as if Maurice was well loved and his life well lived; that's quite and accomplishment for the era in which he was born.
Rose Enyeart says:
As usual you hit on a big life question. I do believe that people do the best they can with the information that they possess. The results aren't always pretty, but people do the best they can to deal with whatever life hands them. Sometimes it is hard to deal with their Best efforts.
Sarah says:
Oh darn, I shouldn't have read this at work. Now I'm sniffling into my coffee. Thankfully no one is here. I want to read your book, Kathryn, I'll look for it.
Libby says:
YOU are life-affirming, Kathryn, and to all readers of your profound weekly offerings. Thank you, again!
Laura says:
Many people never realize the hard work required to care for our less fortunate loved ones….this is a great story about that, and about choosing life over escape…love you so very much.
Nancy Kensinger says:
Wonderful!! Thank You Kathy!
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Junior wideout Antonio Carter agreed; "I'm distracted. I'll admit it. What's going on is heartbreaking. But then again, you've got to go on with your life. Our job is to get ready for this weekend's game."
With last Saturday's scheduled game with Southern Miss postponed indefinitely, Tide Head Coach Dennis Franchione gave the team time off over the weekend. Physically, the athletes benefited. But they would have given anything for the circumstances to have been different. "We were glad that we had a couple of days off, but under the circumstances it was tough," senior placekicker Neal Thomas explained. "That's just how it is. The off day came at a good time, but you hesitate to say anything. What happened last week was terrible.
"Like everyone else I did watch TV (this past week). As much as I could, I guess. You can't say anything really--about what happened. I really don't know what's going on anymore than everyone else in this nation."
Tide athletes Nautyn McKay-Loescher, Gerald Dixon, Waine Bacon and Marvin Brown, all have family members living near New York City or the nation's capital. And thankfully all of their close relatives are safe.
But the players understand the implications of Wednesday's savage attack on their country. "Theo (Sanders, junior tight end) has a Dad and a sister that are in the army," Jones related. "If we go to war, then he thinks they might be among the first people to go. I know all of them real well. I know them personally. It'll be sad for them to go to war, so it makes you think."
Senior defensive end Kindal Moorehead added his thoughts; "Like the rest of the country, we needed a little time to get our minds right. That was a horrible thing that happened. It's impossible to get over. It's going to be in the back of everybody's mind. But we have to move on."
Football can be a grinding, exhausting sport to play. And unwelcome though it was, the players made good use of the extra time. "Oh yeah, I got plenty of rest this weekend," Carter said Sunday after practice. "I think the team did a good job of resting, and it showed. We came out here focused and had a good practice today. Now we need to stay on the line. We've got tomorrow off to get our legs back a little bit and come back Tuesday and Wednesday to get ready for the weekend."
Added Moorehead; "I think we were able to get some rest. I know I did, and I think a lot of other guys did. I went home and got some sleep. A lot of guys got a chance to go home and see their families."
"Today was a good day," Thomas agreed. "We had an extra day to prepare for Arkansas, and that's good. I think the mood of the team is great. We're going to bounce back and hopefully do well."
Normally Sundays are a day to correct problems from the weekend's game, a time to re-teach while mistakes are still fresh on the players' minds and a chance for athletes that didn't play in the game to work off the rust with some live scrimmage work.
But this Sunday the Tide had an extra day to prepare for their next opponent, the Arkansas Razorbacks. "We put the time off to good use," Jones said. "But you don't ever want to not play a game for something like this. Another reason would have set better with me, but not this one.
"Seeing what happened on TV, understanding all the lives that have been lost--all the families that were hurt. It hit me real hard."
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Carter added; "I think we're ready to play. We've got a big game this weekend--CBS--prime 2:30 slot on Saturday. Coach Fran helped us by giving us a break this weekend. And I think we came out today and had a good practice."
Last week, with repeated television replays keeping Wednesday's horror fresh on their minds, the team had to struggle to stay focused. But in a way the disciplined regimen of football practice should actually help. Jones explained; "I think we've got our minds right. Over the weekend we had time to dwell on it and think about it. It was a problem, but I think we're fine right now. We've got to get it out of our minds, because we know we've got to get back and get ready for the game.
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Kamacuras were a species of giant praying mantises from the Godzilla series of movies that served as the secondary antagonists of Son of Godzilla and one Kamacuras served as a supporting antagonist in Godzilla: Final Wars.
Son of Godzilla
In the Kamacuras first appearance, they are the secondary antagonists of the film. The Kamacuras was already the size of a full-grown human being living on Sollgel Island when a radioactive accident during a weather experiment mutated them to even larger proportions.
Three find Minya's egg and crack it open, revealing Minya. They attack him but his cries are answered by Godzilla, who comes and kills two Kamacuras, while the third flees.
The third eventually returns and attacks Saeko, but Minya intervenes and confronts the giant insect. Minya is quickly overpowered and just as the Kamacura is going to kill him, Godzilla saves him again and defeats the mantis. However, their battle awakens the giant spider Kumonga, who captures Minya and the Kamacura in webbing. Kumonga then injected poison into the mantis, killing it.
All Monsters Attack
In this film, the Kamacuras first appeared atacking Godzilla, but Godzilla quickly kills two, the first by burning it with his atomic breath, and the second by pummeling it and then buring it. The third flees. Very shortly after, a Kamacura, possibly the third, appears again and chases the young boy Ichiro, who falls down a hole. The Kamacura is unable to chase Ichiro any further and leaves. Not only does this take place in the mind of Ichiro, but most of this is actually stock footage from Son of Godzilla.
Godzilla vs Gigan
A Kamacura appears in Ogasawara, living in peace with the other monsters.
Godzilla: Final Wars
A Kamacura was among the monsters brainwashed by the Xilians. It attacked Paris, and clashes with a warship called the Ecalir, but is beamed away by the Xilians to make it look like they saved the world by eliminating the kaiju. When they are found out, the monsters are sent again to finish the job. However, Godzilla is released and fights the Kamacura, easily defeating it by impaling it on an electric transmission tower, killing it.


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Brazil Inflation Really at 8% Without Rouseff FiddlingMatthew Malinowski
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has been fighting inflation by holding down government-regulated prices. The bill will come due next year.
The winner of this October's presidential election will suffer the consequences of policies that have repressed electricity prices by 30 percent, urban bus fares by 20 percent and gasoline prices by 15 percent since 2011, according to data from Rio de Janeiro-based firm Modal Asset Management. Lifting controls will unleash pressures that will keep inflation above the mid-point of the target for a sixth straight year.
Consumer prices as measured by the benchmark IPCA index rose 0.4 percent in June, pushing annual inflation to 6.52 percent, the national statistics agency said today. Prices would be rising by almost 8 percent if it weren't for controls, according to estimates by Alberto Ramos, chief Latin America economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., who spoke by phone from New York.
Lifting regulated prices becomes an even more delicate job given the context of weak growth, according to Flavio Serrano, senior economist at Banco Espirito Santo de Investimento.
"It's a huge challenge," Serrano said by phone from Sao Paulo. "You have to find a way to adjust the prices in such a way that the economy doesn't suffer too much, inflation improves and social discontent is avoided."
Brazil's first-quarter growth was half the pace of the previous three months as industry contracted and investment shrank the most in two years. Economists surveyed by the central bank expect the economy to expand by 1.07 percent this year and 1.50 percent in 2015, compared with 2.5 percent in 2013.
Slower Growth
Slower growth hasn't helped tame inflation, which has remained above the official 4.5 percent goal during Rousseff's entire tenure and will exceed the 6.5 percent ceiling of the target range in September, according to a central bank forecast.
The cap in regulated prices also failed to make a dent in annual inflation as tax cuts and low unemployment fuel demand for goods and services. The real has weakened 25.6 percent since January, 2011, further driving up prices of imports.
Yields on inflation-linked notes due in 2015 have dropped 20 basis points to 4.44 percent since the central bank halted benchmark rate increases on May 28, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While raising regulated prices may be unpopular, there's no way for the government to avoid it, said Andre Cesar, director at public policy and business strategy consulting firm Prospectiva.
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"Consumers will feel the impact in their pockets, without a doubt," Cesar said by phone from Brasilia. "The effect will be spread out among common people, businesses and taxpayers. Price adjustments are more than necessary. They are almost urgent."
Items subject to price controls accounted for 22.7 percent of the June inflation index, according to the statistics agency.
Rousseff's two main contenders in the Oct. 5 first round of presidential elections, former state governor Eduardo Campos and opposition Senator Aecio Neves, have pledged changes to regulated price policies.
Clear Rules
Campos criticized government price intervention in an April interview, and said the country must create clear rules for regulated price adjustments. While increasing fuel, energy and transportation prices will boost short-term inflation, the move will help Brazil recover credibility, Campos' economic adviser Eduardo Giannetti said in an interview in May.
Aecio Neves in a June 2 television interview echoed the need for clear rules on regulated prices, and said increases would not be made all at once. He promised to study the effects of price changes on companies including state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA.
Eduardo Campos's and Aecio Neves's campaigns weren't available for comment when contacted by phone and e-mail.
An opposition victory may lead to a sharper adjustment, while Rousseff would be more inclined to boost regulated costs in a piecemeal fashion, according to Joao Castro Neves, an analyst at Eurasia Group in Washington.
Price Caps
Brazil is not the only country employing price controls. Since January the Argentine government has put price caps on a basket of 320 products from detergent to chicken to bottled water in an attempt to contain quickening inflation. Supermarkets including Carrefour and Wal-Mart have been fined for noncompliance with proper stocking of price-controlled goods. Electricity spot prices in the Philippines have been affected by a price cap.
Regulated prices have been increasing since the end of last year, the finance ministry's secretary for economic policy, Marcio Holland, said in a telephone interview today. Brazil's inflation is under control and government policies have been helping control consumer price increases, he said.
The gap between annual regulated price inflation and market prices has declined to 3.36 percent last month from 6.5 percent the year prior, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Brazil's central bank and presidential palace declined to comment on future adjustments in regulated prices. The Finance Ministry wasn't available to comment when contacted by phone and e-mail.
Fuel Prices
The restrictions on fuel price increases have saddled Petrobras with a $42 billion operating loss from the beginning of 2011 through the first quarter of this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Petrobras is selling gasoline and diesel at a 6 percent and 14 percent discount, respectively, to international prices, UBS AG said in a July 4 note to clients.
Those measures contrast with policies in countries such as Colombia, where state-controlled Ecopetrol SA regularly adjusts prices in line with international rates.
Investors have reacted to the price controls. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange Electrical Energy Index, which includes Brazil's 16 main utilities, dropped 8.8 percent last year after plunging 12 percent in 2012, when Rousseff announced that license renewals would only be given to companies that cut prices. The index has rallied in 2014, as polls earlier this year showed a decline in Rousseff's re-election support.
Her backing rose to 38 percent in July from 34 percent in June, the first gain this year, according to a July 1-2 survey by Sao Paulo -based pollster Datafolha. Neves had 20 percent, up from 19 percent a month earlier, the survey of 2,857 people with a margin of error of two percentage points showed. Her support was 44 percent in February.
Shares Fall
Petrobras's market value has fallen 37 percent since it started subsidizing fuel imports in 2011 and growth in production has missed expectations.
Last year, Rousseff forced utility companies to cut electricity prices about 20 percent in exchange for early renewal of concessions. Cities including Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre delayed bus fare increases, bowing to pressure from the biggest street protests in decades.
Power failures affecting swaths of Brazil's territory this year and last, together with the worst drought in at least four decades, have sparked concerns of energy rationing. Reduced investments in areas such as electricity could drag down overall growth, John Welch, macro strategist at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, said by phone from Toronto.
'Lose Money'
"The biggest problem in the electricity sector is the lack of investment," Welch said. "The suppression of prices before was bad, and it's even larger now. Why would anyone invest in a sector if they're going to lose money?"
Holding regulated prices down also renders the world's longest monetary tightening cycle less effective as it fuels inflation expectations, according to Tony Volpon, head of Americas research for Nomura Holdings Inc.
Central bankers on May 28 held the benchmark Selic unchanged at 11 percent after increasing borrowing costs by 375 basis points during the previous nine gatherings.
Analysts have increased their 2014 inflation expectations to 6.46 percent on June 27 from 5.70 percent when policy makers started raising the key rate in April 2013 , according to a central bank survey.
"The biggest culprit of the apparent inefficiency in monetary policy is the policy around regulated prices," Volpon said by phone from New York. "Everyone expects them to go higher in the future, which means the government has guaranteed a future inflation shock."


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Luke 23:32-43
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32 Two others, who were criminals, were led away to be put to death with him. 33 And when they came to the place that is called The Skull, there they crucified him, and the criminals, one on his right and one on his left. 34 And Jesus said, ''Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.'' And they cast lots to divide his garments. 35 And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, ''He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!'' 36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine 37 and saying, ''If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!'' 38 There was also an inscription over him, ''This is the King of the Jews.''
39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, ''Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!'' 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, ''Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.'' 42 And he said, ''Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.'' 43 And he said to him, ''Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.''
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Conrad understood how Western civilization and technology lend themselves to inhuman exploitation. He had seen in the Congo the barbarity and disdain for human life that resulted from a belief in moral advancement. He knew humankind's violent, primeval lusts. He knew how easily we can all slip into states of extreme depravity.
Conrad rejected all formulas or schemes for the moral improvement of the human condition. Political institutions, he said, "whether contrived by the wisdom of the few or the ignorance of the many, are incapable of securing the happiness of mankind."
He wrote "international fraternity may be an object to strive for ... but that illusion imposes by its size alone. Franchement, what would you think of an attempt to promote fraternity amongst people living in the same street, I don't even mention two neighboring streets." He bluntly told the pacifist Bertrand Russell, who saw humankind's future in the rise of international socialism, that it was "the sort of thing to which I cannot attach any definite meaning. I have never been able to find in any man's book or any man's talk anything convincing enough to stand up for a moment against my deep-seated sense of fatality governing this man-inhabited world."
Russell said of Conrad: "I felt, though I do not know whether he would have accepted such an image, that he thought of civilized and morally tolerable human life as a dangerous walk on a thin crust of barely cooled lava which at any moment might break and let the unwary sink into fiery depths."
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"His mother was half-English, his father was half-French," Conrad wrote of Kurtz. "All Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and by-the-by I learned that, most appropriately, the International Society for the Suppression of Savage Customs had entrusted him with the making of a report, for its future guidance. ... He began with the argument that we whites, from the point of development we had arrived at, 'must necessarily appear to them [savages] in the nature of supernatural beings—we approach them with the might as of a deity,' and so on, and so on. 'By the simple exercise of our will we can exert a power for good practically unbounded,' etc., etc. From that point he soared and took me with him. The peroration was magnificent, though difficult to remember, you know. It gave me the notion of an exotic Immensity ruled by an august Benevolence. It made me tingle with enthusiasm. This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of phrases, unless a kind of note at the foot of the last page, scrawled evidently much later, in an unsteady hand, may be regarded as the exposition of a method. It was very simple, and at the end of that moving appeal to every altruistic sentiment it blazed at you, luminous and terrifying, like a flash of lightning in a serene sky: 'Exterminate all the brutes!' "
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By geeks, October 13, 2009 at 4:34 am Link to this comment
man is definatley cruel, we cant get on with each other and anything else…
Keep up the good work
By Durwood Kirby, December 27, 2008 at 10:05 am Link to this comment
From WRH quote of the day:
Maybe it's the abuse of power or a mistaken belief in what power confers.
By WorkingMan, December 25, 2008 at 4:23 am Link to this comment
What a strange coincidence. As a fast-approaching-middle-age former English Major, I nonetheless just read "Heart of Darkness" for the first time a few weeks ago.
By COGITO, December 24, 2008 at 10:41 pm Link to this comment
I am touched by our precarious circumstances, but more so by our helplessness.
By Leisure Suit Larry, December 24, 2008 at 7:15 am Link to this comment
"survival of the fittest"
The quote belongs to Darwin Not Hitler.
By Baltimore, December 23, 2008 at 6:42 pm Link to this comment
re: diamond comment
The breakdown of "civilized society" in America cannot be counted from the last few years. 300 years of slavery, 100 years of jim crow "laws" were so far from "civilized" that the truth is more that America has almost always been a bastion of cruelty, covered-up by Press, Pulpit and White elitism.
I would argue it is in not dealing (enough) with this history (of slavery and racism) that has left our country so vulnerable to corruption. America has allowed itself the illusion of being a "free" country, when in reality, great repression of people of color was happening throughout our history.
I recently re-read Heart of Darkness and was appalled at the racism in the book. Conrad makes references to the ugliness of the African people and never even makes an attempt to humanize one African character. (at least in this story)
While he is making social commentary, as Hedges notes, Conrad makes references to the sinister feelings the main character gets from the Africans, who form a sort of incomprehensible backdrop to the story.
By denis, December 23, 2008 at 10:18 am Link to this comment
actually, gnosticism is alive and well, anywhere the belief in special knowledge available only to a privileged few is thriving.
By Leisure Suit Larry, December 23, 2008 at 7:57 am Link to this comment
By Jim Yell, December 22 at 8:55 am #
"I thought the articles after the jealous chimps tore into the couple who brought presents for their once companion chimp rather over the top. As their behavior should have been obvious in their parellel to human response to frusteration and envy. Not a bit of difference to the "wilding of young people in central park".
By Ron Ranft, December 22, 2008 at 7:51 pm Link to this comment
I went to see The Day the Earth Stood Still the other night. Having been raised on Science Fiction my brother and I have been discussing the movie's theme for years. Ironically another of Keanu Reeves movies also made a salient point, that humans are like virus' and will eventually wipe themselves out. My brother contends that humans are a dead end species, one that has the ability to wipe out all life along with itself.
I can only rely on my experiences in life. I have known at 8 people who were faced with situations in which they could have died. The swore that if their circumstances changed and they were saved they would not repeat the same behavior that had brought them to the threshold of Death. They all survived and not a single one of them altered their behavior. While we may learn and adapt some behavior it would seem that ultimately humans cannot change those behaviors that are either the most self destructive or destructive to the world as a whole. I know that there are small successes worldwide but the planet has this overwhelming number of either stupid, greedy people in charge or masses of people without the resources to affect any great change for the better. Between the two they drag humanity ever closer to the abyss of extinction. It isn't that we don't know what to do or how to do it, it is that we as a species do not have the will power to do what is needed.
All of the world's major problems have one cause, overpopulation. Yet we refuse to follow China's model and begin to squelch the notion that going forth and multiplying is a good thing. We allow feaqr based humans to drive the rest of us in the direction of destrying one another out of fear rather than pursuing what we experience of people, that of assisting one another and making a difference.
As I said, I don't think humans can change even under the direst of situations, however, I do think that we can teach them to be different. And that is the biggest problem of all when so many small and narrow minded people restrict education and worse yet, want it to teach the absurd concept that is Creationism! What we need is a smarter more educated world and we allow the resources necessary to accomplish that to be used by people who think that the goal of life is to see who can own the largest yacht or the most expensive anything!
By T. Patrick Donovan, December 22, 2008 at 7:04 pm Link to this comment
Hedges is hardly cynical or nihilistic. Humans are neither inherently good nor inherently evil; we are, rather, inherently fearful and anxiety-ridden. This fear leads to all manner of compensations, denials, and projections in order to shed our anxiety over annihilation.
Seek out and read Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death," and Freud's "Civilization and Its Discontents" for prescient clues to humankind's dilemma: the only animal that we know that is cognizant of its own impending decay and demise.
Until humankind can face and accept death as death, as the final curtain call, we will forever be making the Other pay and pay and pay.
By crisscross, December 22, 2008 at 6:27 pm Link to this comment
why is everyone here so miserable? liberals should pass the prosac or find a new more optimistic philoshophy
By marcus medler, December 22, 2008 at 4:29 pm Link to this comment
I note in this discussion and in the essay that the "brute nature" emerges from civilized man. The idealist becomes the ideologue,the liberator the tyrant and the organization man the brute. I am naive enough to think that man in a natural state (what is this) is less brutish. Conrad's characters are flawed beings unraveling like a wound watch when displaced from civilizing restrictions. He is making an observation of civilized man not man's innate nature. I suggest a reading of Tobias Schneebaum's books. He and other anthropologists are interested in the "savage" nature of savage man.
By Rgyle, December 22, 2008 at 3:56 pm Link to this comment
diamond: I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment. We have for some time had the chance to lead for the greater good of everyone. There have been a few bright spots. But for the last 8 years it's been a complete waste of leadership opportunity.
Allow me to put another arrow on your bow. Just heard the report from Linda Bilmes and Joseph Stiglitz (presented in their book The 10 Trillion Dollar Hangover) that our national debt after 8 years of Bush will have doubled and possibly tripled, an increase greater than that of the administrations of all 42 prior presidents COMBINED. That's a treasonous breach of trust and dereliction of duty. We must indict, the sooner the better. We, as a nation and society, will continue our descent until we perform our moral, ethical and constitutional responsibility in this regard.
Here's some encouraging news. Tim DeChristopher just stood up for what is right. He's a hero for shrewdly and courageously outbidding (and upbidding) the oil giants for much of our treasured red rock lands in Utah. He's a student and has no money to pay for the 22,000 acres he won at auction. But he successfully delayed another auction for a month, after Bush is gone, likely saving much of it from needless exploitation. Bravo!
Though my expectations for the Obama presidency have been lowered lately, I expect more opportunities for we the people to take heart, take action and lead Mr. Obama to good governance he promised, like Mr. Christopher just did.
It does truly come down to each one of us to find the truth, own it, and stand up for it. To keep the promises our elected mouthpieces make. And one truth is we have rampant misdemeanors and high crimes that have caused so much harm here and around the world, and will for years to come. The perpetrators must be held to account. The whole world is waiting. Do this, or watch our country further decline, eventually dying a tragic and painful death.
By rich kurth, December 22, 2008 at 11:52 am Link to this comment
However beautifully put, reading Hedge's columns can be a real downer, but only if you let it. I hear someone who has many times witnessed the brutality yet yearns for the good and innocent. What doesn't kill you might help heal you.
Conrad's marginal note reminds me of a bumper sticker that reads: Hate Hate! It's the vicious circular mentality chasing it's own tail. It is the ego in humans that so foolishly passes judgement on all the damn fools. Is there any relief? As soon as one sees the paradox, the hypocrisy, the very essence of the false, in oneself, there is a chance for correction. Only when we face the demon in us can it be vanquished.
If you're interested, perhaps give these a read: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle and I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj. These are not page-turners nor intellectual entertainments. They point to the false, and more.
If my hand didn't feel the pain of the flame's heat, it would burn off before my very eyes. All we have is good luck. But don't take my word for it!
By Kashilinus, December 22, 2008 at 11:06 am Link to this comment
So bleak, this damning and discouraging view, which from many angles is quite justified. But the way is still open to redempton, and when you get right down to it, what else is there that is meaningful enough to do? Not that we can get there, but my Christmas card poem this year reads;
In a dream world
Cheers, Ed
By Williamhope, December 22, 2008 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
Conrad's fatalism seems to have enraptured Mr. Hedges, a professed faithful religionist. What an interesting paradox. Hope which sustains us through the uncertainties of this life has successfully expanded technology, increased creature comforts and life expectancy for some, and expanded the human community in numbers and awareness of interdependency. I trust this challenging experiment in humanness will continue to benefit humankind.
By Jim Yell, December 22, 2008 at 9:55 am Link to this comment
I can't think of much to object to in Hedges article above. We are a rotten lot, but must still strive to control the raging inside—I believe. Must have some standards if for no reason except to have a measure of how we have failed to improve ourselves.
I thought the articles after the jealous chimps tore into the couple who brought presents for their once companion chimp rather over the top. As their behavior should have been obvious in their parellel to human response to frusteration and envy. Not a bit of difference to the "wilding of young people in central park".
I do feel that most of us must be taught the rules and they are hard lessons, but I have known people that I have thought had a natural balance to their relationships, good people who would be good and do good even without codified do's and don'ts.
Our current embarressment was brought on by ignoring the consequences of not following the rules, or getting rid of rules all together. Still there is a fine line between a healthy balance and absolute chaos. Perhaps we are all insane after all.
By Joeseph Schmoltz, December 22, 2008 at 9:53 am Link to this comment
Ah yes the Wagner syndrome. "Can a monster create beautiful music?''
For the answer listen to Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg.
We build monuments to God and build guns to defend our belief that he is on our side. We write beautiful poetry which almost no one reads.
many older people die only recently realizing that they were on the wrong side for the majority of their lives… George Wallace comes to mind.
People (because of the gift of a thumb) have taken themselves OUT of the food chain, and in doing so, rendered themselves worthless to all but themselves.
By expat in germany, December 22, 2008 at 8:23 am Link to this comment
I have an old, deep love and respect for both literature and science, but I prefer to take my views of human nature from the latter, not the former. There is still much we don't understand about human motivations, and about the intersection of nature and nurture, but the bleak outlook of Mr. Hedge's article overlooks a lot of research identifying cooperative, and even altruistic, human behavior.
Whether you invoke the "tragedy of the commons" or the game of Prisoner's Dilemma, one can argue both sides of our nature. Anyone with a child knows how self-serving we can be, just as anyone with a child knows how fair and generous we can be.
I think our global connections have created a transparency that holds some promise and reason for optimism. Perhaps it will come down to that old bromide "garbage in, garbage out."
By Allan Gurfinkle, December 22, 2008 at 6:39 am Link to this comment
1. We live on a planet of aggressive animals that must kill and eat other in order to survive. This is probably the most diabolical (grotesque, horrific, ... ) universe imaginable.
2. That said, the accomplishments of civilization appear all the more incredible. Art, music, science, industry, technology, all miracles.
3. That said, we're now on the brink. Hedges analysis of savagery is hopelessly dated and picayune. The danger we face is not from savages but from scientists and engineers who have designed and deployed a doomsday machine that can destroy us all in the next hour. The evil has been done, and all that remains is an accident or bad decision to destroy EVERYTHING. And, yet, it is never mentioned. So, I though I would mention it.
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