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Barbie, Hamas, & Homo Amor: From Degraded Love Stories to “The Universe: A Love Story”
Looking at two seemingly unconnected events — the Barbie movie and the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 — helps us clarify our perception and articulate a third possibility. Although there is zero moral equivalence between Barbie and Hamas, both are degraded love stories. That’s what makes them so dangerous. Hamas is a wildly destructive expression of fundamentalism; it degrades and demonizes the body and desire itself. Desire, perceived as evil, is projected outwards, onto ‘infidels,’ and then brutally destroyed. Barbie is an expression of postmodernism: it disqualifies love, value, and desire as non-real, as mere social constructs. In absence [...]
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From the Holy of Holies: A Dialogue between Drs. Tom Goddard and Marc Gafni on ErosValue and Choice and Choicelessness
Listen to this Dialogue and/or Read the Transcript Below Here is the transcript of this dialogue between Dr. Marc Gafni and Dr. Tom Ronen Goddard. Marc:                         Let’s talk about this new word in the Dharma, which is a word that appeared maybe a year ago, which is this word ErosValue. That’s our topic for the next few minutes. And in some sense, as you know, my love, we didn’t start talking about First Values and First Principles. The first time I ever mentioned that term, it was probably 2018. I mean, in other words, we talked about [...]