Questions

From the time of Aristotle to the time of the Marxist, we have always been told that human beings are social creatures and that the selfish, self-serving, isolated individual doesn’t stand a chance in any period of society, whether ancient or modern. But isn’t the essential precondition for survival has always been the individual first and then his relationships with his surrounding?


Is our existence based on maximizing our own pleasure and minimizing our pain – or have we build up a society where we overcome our own pleasure and increase our pain?


In the Social Contract written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau famously in 1762 he claims that man is born free and yet everywhere he is in chains…..did he mean social chains?


Can you believe both in religious teachings and well as what Charles Darwin wrote?
What do we believe in?


Any individualist effort is always perceived as anti social. But hasn’t it always been that one individual that drives the mass? Even if we polarize the world between what we love to term as the Capitalist and the Marxist-Socialist, it has always been that one individual that stands out – be it Bill Gates, William The Conquer, Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Genghis Khan, The Mughal Emperors, Rothschild family, John Rockefeller, Gaddafi, Hosni Mubarak, Warren Buffet, Sam Walton, Mussolini, Henry Ford and others on one hand and Spartacus, Oliver Cromwell, Napoleon Bonaparte, Garibaldi, Sri Aurobindo, Lenin, Trotsky, Marx, Gandhi, Zhou Enlai, Kim II Sung, Luther, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Ambedkar, Sun Yat Sen, Pancho Villa, Mao Zedong, Che, Hitler, Eva Peron, and others on the Other. So where does the world stands?

Terror's Advocate by Barbet Schroeder

If you are interested in the other side of the legal system, if you are interested in anti-colonialist movements, it you are interested in the other side of the politics, if you are interested in the mindsets of people who adopt terror tactics and are called freedom fighters, then watching “Terror’s advocate” a doc by Barbet Schroeder might get you interest in a man they called Jacques Verges.

Jacques Verges' existence revolved around Algeria, Djamila Bouhired, Front de Libération Nationale(FLN), Cambodia, Pol Pot, The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine(PFLP), Yasser Arafat, Israel, Carlos the Jackal, Zaire, Mao, China and Viet Nam, Cheyenne Brando. Le serpernt , tariz asiz, Various African Dictators.

Of course one would need a lot of information and knowledge about that period at that part of the world to fully understand, appreciate, acknowledge and enjoy Barbet Schroeder’s work.