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[ish mailian]

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/27/395800345/photography-misery-and-beauty-in-the-salt-of-the-earth

On Thursday, September 3, 2015, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

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> So did athletes and workers, slaves and gladiators...it's a cult, it needs
> a myth, a  creed, with rituals and so on. Btw, just happened to watch salt
> if the earth. The miners are not, according to the photographer, slaves,
> exploited workers, but men who want to get rich. I have a difficult time
> with this assertion, a cultural pathology in Brasil that romanticizes the
> plight of the people, the mythological struggle for paradise.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/movies/wim-wenders-on-sebastio-salgado-in-the-salt-of-the-earth.html?_r=0
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> On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','richard.romeo at gmail.com');>> wrote:
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>> whatever your rationale, I think guys in combat is a bit different than
>> working in a factory. throughout history soldiers bonded under
>> horrific/stressful conditions; those in law enforcement as well to a
>> certain extent. I dont believe its a myth
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:05 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> But the modern mechanical unit worker, so easily replaced with
>>> automation, robots, is not all that different from the office worker who
>>> sits in a cubical.  One of the most misread, or should I say, misused
>>> texts, since by definition a classic is not read but only misused, is Adam
>>> Smith's TWoN, a book that, ironically, is forever married to conservative
>>> politics, and is one of the greatest arguments against the exploitation
>>> of modern labor. In the book Smith describes work, pre-modern work. We
>>> crossed over to modern work, as we readers of M&D know, long before Ford
>>> and Vibe. In any event, it's impossible to uphold the band of brothers myth
>>> on the American side. Restrepo is not a documentary of brotherhood or
>>> courage, but a film, an imitation, pornography.
>>>
>>>
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