BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//The Sanctuary For Independent Media - ECPv6.17.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Sanctuary For Independent Media
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20200308T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20201101T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20210314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20211107T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20220313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20221106T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210627T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210627T203000
DTSTAMP:20250212T183332Z
CREATED:20210518T024546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250212T183332Z
UID:10001221-1624820400-1624825800@www.mediasanctuary.org
SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: "American Sadism"
DESCRIPTION:Chris Hedges returns to the Sanctuary for a virtual talk about the times in which we live. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSadism now defines nearly every cultural\, social and political experience in the United States. It is expressed in the greed of an oligarchic elite that has seen its wealth increase during the pandemic by $1.1 trillion while the country has suffered the sharpest rise in its poverty rate in more than 50 years.  It is expressed in extra-judicial killings by police in cities such as Minneapolis. It is expressed in our complicity in Israel’s wholesale killing of unarmed Palestinians\, the humanitarian crisis engendered by the war in Yemen and our reigns of terror in Afghanistan\, Iraq and Syria. It is expressed in the torture in our prisons and black sites. It is expressed in the separation of children from their undocumented parents\, where they are held as if they were dogs in a kennel. \n\n\n\nThe historian Johan Huizinga\, writing about the twilight of the middle ages\, argued that as things fall apart sadism is embraced as a way to cope with the hostility of an indifferent universe. No longer bound to a common purpose\, a ruptured society retreats into the cult of the self. It celebrates\, as do corporations on Wall Street or mass culture through reality television shows\, the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm\, grandiosity and self-importance; a need for constant stimulation; a penchant for lying\, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. Get what you can\, as fast as you can\, before someone else gets it. This is the state of nature\, the “war of all against all\,” Thomas Hobbes saw as the consequence of social collapse\, a world in which life becomes “solitary\, poor\, nasty\, brutish\, and short.” And this sadism\, as Friedrich Nietzsche understood\, fuels a perverted\, sadistic pleasure. \n\n\n\nCheck out Chris Hedges’ “The Politics of Cultural Despair\,” recorded on October 18\, 2020 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media!
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/chris-hedges-american-sadism/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Chris_Hedges_glasses_in_hand_DSC06838-4-2-scaled.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR