1363: Violence and humanism / Brad Evans
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🗓️ 13 July 2021
⏱️ 80 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Touch me I'm sick. We're going to go. This is hell. |
| 0:23.0 | live from the United States where a cat is |
| 0:32.0 | is hell. |
| 0:37.0 | Live from the United States where capitalism is the virus. This is hell. |
| 0:41.0 | Military humanitarianism on its surface sounds like an oxymoron. |
| 0:46.0 | How can any militarize action promote the health and happiness of humanity? |
| 0:50.1 | Yet the violence of military humanitarianism or a war wars conducted in the name of saving the victims of the oppressed happens. |
| 0:57.0 | That happens all of the time. |
| 0:59.0 | But what happens when those victims are saved but the oppression continues elsewhere. |
| 1:05.7 | Does the conflagration continue worldwide repeating itself over and over again leaving us in |
| 1:11.6 | an endless cycle of violence against those who commit |
| 1:13.8 | violence against others? And if it does, are we stuck with an inevitable future of |
| 1:19.1 | more and more violence without relief, ad infinitum? If so, how do we break out of the cycle of |
| 1:25.7 | seemingly endless violence to determine that we have to reflect on the sacred |
| 1:29.5 | nature we apply to the victim and their connection to God and our religious beliefs that quell our fears of the |
| 1:35.0 | unknown, the void from which we come and to which we will return. |
| 1:39.7 | What if the violence writ large throughout our Eurocentric religious beliefs is the cause of ongoing |
| 1:46.8 | violence and does that mean then for us to confront violence we must confront liberalism and its demand that we sanctified the victim and |
| 1:54.9 | launch wars to protect them at all costs. I know it's a lot of intense and deep |
| 2:00.7 | questions questions we'll hopefully all understand better when we have the |
| 2:05.0 | return of Brad Evans, author of Eche Humanitus. Beholding the pain of humanity, Brad is professor |
| 2:12.4 | of political violence and aesthetics at the |
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