From Alban Berg’s Lulu, and the
Journey from Humiliation to Dignity, from the “Machine Principle” to the “Life
Principle” Evelin Lindner November 22, 2015
Khan concludes that the terrorists’ antipluralist mission is
aimed at breaking the world into two opposed camps, jihadis and crusaders,
locked in an apocalyptic battle, that fits into their own, reductive world
view. Indeed, many analysists believe that the Paris attacks were deliberately
designed to increase xenophobia and resentment. And they succeeded; attacks
upon Muslims have increased in France and elsewhere. As former Islamic State
captive Nicolas Hénin explains it: “They will be heartened by every sign of
overreaction, of division, of fear, of racism, of xenophobia; they will be
drawn to any examples of ugliness on social media.” The second example comes
from the so-called Neo-Dalit movement in India, which identifies two main
problems facing the country: a culture of impunity, and the context of market
democracy and economic globalization: “…the Neo-fascist Hindutva project is
used to perpetuate caste domination and allow the Indian leaders to realise
profit by selling the country to national and international companies… this
economic deregulation marginalised lower castes, and therefore, strengthened
social division based on castes.” The suggested call for action goes as
follows: In the final analysis, we wish to emphasise three ways that the
Neo-Dalit movement must take to improve their political, economic and social
conditions. First, we may fight against political repression and impunity by
legal process. Many human rights organisations are already fighting the system
to transform the Brahmanical ‘rule of the lord’ by coercing them respect the
imperfect ‘rule of the law’. Secondly, the social impunity should be defeated
by changing cognitive weakness. It made some people victim of their inferiority
complex and other tormentors due to their superiority complex. We need to
create commons forums for NeoDalit, in order to break the wall of silence,
which leads to the acceptation of this situation. We need to launch a speech (read dialogue) process, which
will teach them that they are equal and that they share common interest. PVCHR
is developing nearly two hundred model villages based on concept of Neo-Dalit
movement. The Neo-Dalit movement is a sign of hope, honour and human dignity
for the most marginalised people facing discrimination based on race, caste,
religion and gender. The Nelson Mandela model is the path for PVCHR’s Neo-
Dalit movement to bring unity of different communities against the caste
system, feudalism, communal-Fascism and Neo-Liberalism, through reconciliation
for justice and human dignity against the culture of impunity based on silence.
It promises to contribute, in posterity, to the pluralistic democracy in the
world.
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This is a story of an opera and how it applies to deep
questions about the nature of reality, of what is and what ought to be. These
questions pertain also to modern-day topics ranging as far as terrorism, gender
relations, or music theory. This text starts with a brief description of the
opera, and then addresses its relevance to concepts of masculinity, love, and
music.
Evelin
Gerda Lindner (born
May 13, 1954, in Hameln, Germany)
is a German-born psychologist and trans-disciplinary scholar in social sciences and humanities,
and a principal founder of the emerging field of dignity and humiliation
studies. She is mainly based in Norway.
Lindner
is originally a physician and a clinical psychologist, and holds doctorates in
both social medicine and social
psychology. Her research focuses on human dignity,
and she believes that the humiliation of honor and dignity may be among the
strongest obstacles on the way to a decent world community. She is the Founding
President of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies(HumanDHS),
a global trans-disciplinary fellowship of concerned academics and practitioners
who wish to promote dignity and transcend humiliation.
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