The Fleming Foundation Cultural Commentary

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Wars, Just and Unjust

The current discussion of war against civilians, inspired by Anthony McCarthy’s excellent commentary on the Hiroshima celebrations, has encouraged me to post some passages from the last two chapters of my forthcoming sequel to The Reign of Love.

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Value and Feeling

The animals’ responses to efforts of zoo-goers to attract their attention have become ‘meaningless’ due to the empty nature of the stimuli. Berger wrote his reflections in the 1970s long before the Information Age brought closer a state of affairs among humans resembling that of animals in the zoo.