{"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: “Them” and “Us”. \/\/\/ 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: “Ellos” y “Nosotros\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 “mechanical solidarity,” which is a bond between individuals who are collectively in opposition to another solidarity group.<\/p>\n

Here communitas is asserted for the “part” at the expense of the “whole,” hence denies its own distinctive quality. In “solidarity,” unity depends on “in-group, out-group” oppositions, on the We-They contrast.<\/p>\n

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

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It is sadly likely that Malcolm X’s discovery through pilgrimage of what he calls the “true brotherhood of men of all colors and races,” 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