#human crisis

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“Resilience: Living in a Pandemic since 1492” (2021),

Osceola Red Shirt (Oglala Lakota) and Genevieve Red Shirt (Rosebud Sioux, Chickasaw, Taíno) ,  

Wicket and Craig tooling leather, glass, metal, sweet grass, thread, hand-painted imitation eagle feathers, ermine pelts, red wool, red horsehair, buckskin leather, re-purposed Buffalo felt hat. 

Collection of Agnes Hsu-Tang, PhD and Oscar Tang

Photo by Two Guns Leather

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Albert Camus and the Human Crisis

As France—and all of the world—was emerging from the depths of World War II, Camus summed up what he saw as "the human crisis”: We gasp for air among people who believe they are absolutely right, whether it be in their machines or their ideas. And for all who cannot live without dialogue and the friendship of other human beings, this silence is the end of the world. In the years after he wrote these words, until his death fourteen years later, Camus labored to address this crisis, arguing for dialogue, understanding, clarity, and truth. When he sailed to New York, in March 1946—for his first and only visit to the United States—he found an ebullient nation celebrating victory. Camus warned against the common postwar complacency that took false comfort in the fact that Hitler was dead and the Third Reich had fallen. Yes, the serpentine beast was dead, but “we know perfectly well,” he argued, “that the venom is not gone, that each of us carries it in our own hearts.” All around him in the postwar world, Camus saw disheartening evidence of a global community revealing a heightened indifference to a number of societal ills. It is the same indifference to human suffering that we see all around, and within ourselves, today. Camus’s voice speaks like few others to the heart of an affliction that infects our country and our world, a world divided against itself. His generation called him “the conscience of Europe.” That same voice speaks to us and our world today with a moral integrity and eloquence so sorely lacking in the public arena. Few authors, sixty years after their deaths, have more avid readers, across more continents, than Albert Camus. Camus has never been a trend, a fad, or just a good read. He was always and still is a companion, a guide, a challenge, and a light in darkened times. This keenly insightful story of an intellectual is an ideal volume for those readers who are first discovering Camus, as well as a penetrating exploration of the author for all those who imagine they have already plumbed Camus’ depths—a supremely timely book on an author whose time has come once again.

[fromnadirtozenith]

Smiles that bleed red

When I saw him selling pens With his daughter on the streets I noticed a bright smile which masqueraded the horrors of war back home It was the smile which hid the pain of being torn apart

Children, so dainty and innocent never played with helium balloons but played hide and seek cheerfully As they ran on their bare feet Under the cover of defenseless elders Who were chased by gunmen and were about to blow their tiny world into shrapnel They smile nonetheless

It was the smile Which touched my heart That smile which never failed to appear despite starvation  & bereavement Trapped in the armed turbulence Are their hopes of survival But amid casualties and trauma They never forget to smile

So pristine was the smile That I cried for the first time For things that actually mattered And never had I witnessed Something so beautiful than a person who was completely broken from the inside And had lost everything beloved yet Generously offered to the world A billion dollar smile.

Courtesy: Syrian refugees and other hapless victims of war

Sonica Gopinathan 09/04/2020

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Indifference.

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"Law of the Journey" by Ai Weiwei (@aiww) at the National Gallery in Prague.

There’s no refugee crisis, but only human crisis… In dealing with refugees we’ve lost our very basic values, those words articulated by the world’s leading contemporary artist Ai Weiwei in response to the current humanitarian disaster resonate the intellectual ethical legacy of the most important thinkers of our time. Giving powerful evidence of the shared experience of living in an uprooted world in which we are no longer ‘at home’, they define the role of art as a means to understand our complex reality, to instigate action and provide solace. In this time of uncertainty, we need more tolerance, compassion and trust for each other since we all are one. Otherwise, humanity will face an even bigger crisis, Ai Weiwei continues.

http://www.ngprague.cz/en/exposition-detail/ai-weiwei/

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#greenscreen WE ARE ALL 🍉‼️ From the U.S. Southern Border to Gaza, all walls must fall! We stand with Indigenous communities and will remai

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