Chris Hedges: Marcel Proust’s Masterpiece: In Search of Lost Time

ALL LIFE ...

Image by Bill Strain via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Nov 18, 2022

A century ago, on November 18, 1922, Marcel Proust died. He worked feverishly in his final hours on his masterpiece À la recherche du temps perdu, In Search of Lost Time.

Continue reading

The Chris Hedges Report: Herman Melville’s Moby Dick and the Soul of American Capitalism

Moby Dick

Image by Pete Simon via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Jul 29, 2022

Moby Dick, which explores the self-destructive forces that define America and the collapse of a civilization, is our greatest and most prescient novel.

Continue reading

Chris Hedges: Teaching in Prisons

Caged

Image by Truthout.org via Flickr

Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

TheRealNews on Jul 11, 2022

In a special crossover episode, Chris Hedges joins Mansa Musa on Rattling the Bars to discuss his new book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.

Continue reading

Dirty Hands by Gaither Stewart

Power Corrupts

Image by Gordon Joly via Flickr

by Gaither Stewart
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rome, Italy
October 27, 2019

“You should therefore know that there are two ways to fight: one while abiding by the rules, the other by using force. The first approach is unique to Man; the second is that of beasts. But because in many cases the first method will not suffice, one must be prepared to resort to force. This is why a ruler needs to know how to conduct himself: in the manner of a beast as well as that of man.” — Niccolo Machiavelli

Continue reading

Compromise and Commitment in Literature by Gaither Stewart

and read all over

Image by Jonathan Cohen via Flickr

by Gaither Stewart
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rome, Italy
March 9, 2016

No more than you can choose the age in which you live, can you live without the age in which you are born; we are all children of our times … and to some degree consonant. The laws of the age of science and technology demand agreement if not homogeneity as a condition of existence: to work and exist means to collaborate within a system in which the actions of each are prescribed. Action is homogeneous when it conforms to the requirements of the system.

Continue reading

We Are All Aboard the Pequod by Chris Hedges

Moby Dick

Image by petesimon via Flickr

by Chris Hedges
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Truthdig
July 8, 2013

The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. He is to us what William Shakespeare was to Elizabethan England or Fyodor Dostoyevsky to czarist Russia.

Continue reading

‘Warfare’ – 1984 by George Orwell (repost)

In case you missed this when it was first posted back in 2007.

George Orwell:

Video about ‘Warfare’, based on a reading from the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Reading of 1984 is from the Unabridged audio book “1984”… Read More

via Dandelion Salad

see

George Orwell’s 1984 (must-see film) (entire film)

Revealing the Secrets in Room 101 By Scott Horton

‘Warfare’ – 1984 by George Orwell

https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/

George Orwell: "1984"

Image by surfstyle via Flickr

vaporlock

Video about ‘Warfare’, based on a reading from the novel 1984 by George Orwell. Reading of 1984 is from the Unabridged audio book “1984”. Enjoy

Continue reading