{"id":498,"date":"2016-10-05T14:25:45","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bprummer.com\/?p=498"},"modified":"2016-10-05T14:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T12:43:43","slug":"el-segundo-advenimiento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.bprummer.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"The centre cannot hold"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Until the University City (Madrid) was reopened in 1943, there were guided visits through this space of ambiguous memory for the winning side. A signage was installed, a museographic speech we would say today, in the trenches. These posters eloquently read: \u00abThem\u00bb and \u00abUs\u00bb. \/\/\/ Hasta que la Ciudad Universitaria fue reinaugurada en 1943, hubo visitas guiadas por este espacio de ambigua memoria para el bando ganador. Se instal\u00f3 una carteler\u00eda, un discurso museogr\u00e1fico dir\u00edamos hoy, en las propias trincheras. Estos carteles elocuentemente rezaban: \u00abEllos\u00bb y \u00abNosotros\u201c.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Communitas strains toward universalism and openness; it must be distinguished, for example, in principle from Durkheim’s notion of \u00abmechanical solidarity,\u00bb which is a bond between individuals who are collectively in opposition to another solidarity group.<\/p>\n

Here communitas is asserted for the \u00abpart\u00bb at the expense of the \u00abwhole,\u00bb hence denies its own distinctive quality. In \u00absolidarity,\u00bb unity depends on \u00abin-group, out-group\u00bb oppositions, on the We-They contrast.<\/p>\n

The historical fate of communitas seems to have been to pass from openness to closure, from \u00abfree\u00bb communitas to the solidarity given by bounded structure, from optation to obligation, from W. H. Auden’s \u00abneedless risk\u00bb to the \u00abendless safety.\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It is sadly likely that Malcolm X’s discovery through pilgrimage of what he calls the \u00abtrue brotherhood of men of all colors and races,\u00bb in sharp contrast to his previous antiwhite stance and his announcement of this in the United States, led swiftly to his assassination by racist fanatics.<\/p>\n