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| Ethical Perspectives |
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| Issue : 11/2-3 (June - September - 2004) |
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| Multatuli Lecture 2003: Imprisoned by Categories. Fuelling Cultural Conflicts with Emotions and Stereotypes |
| David Grosmann |
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Page : 198 - 202 |
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When I was asked to hold the Multatuli Lecture I thought I would like to say, among other things, something about the topic that maybe was close to Multatuli’s heart about the situation of a person, a writer, who has to live his life in an area ruled by violence and occupation and hatred and suspicion, and anxieties. Life meets incessant moral dilemmas amidst painful contradictions and the legislative values of his society and the reality that the society is trapped in. But, as you know, when I was sitting down to write this lecture the situation in the Middle East started to deteriorate. The United States waged a war and named it – cynically – Freedom to Iraq. Instead of going to visit Leuven I found myself evacuating and cleaning the little shelter at my home, teaching my ten-year-old daughter to wear the rubber mask and explaining to her how to defend herself if we are attacked by all kinds of gas and chemical weapons, while thinking that in other more relaxed countries people are teaching their children about the facts of life. Here in Israel we start to teach them about the facts of death while in other places they teach about the facts of life.
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