links vom 01.05.2014

  welt.de: Tisch­ge­spräch: Klaus Ma­ria Bran­dau­er und der ganz gro­ße Hun­ger   #

ein jahr al­ter text von joa­chim lott­mann. ich kann in der re­gel mit lott­mann we­nig an­fan­gen und mit bran­dau­er gar nichts. und mit dem blatt, in dem der text steht erst recht nichts. aber die­sen text habe ich tat­säch­lich mit gros­sem ver­gnü­gen ge­le­sen. /um­blaet­te­rer.de

  rol­lings­tone.com: 'Ga­me of Thro­nes' Aut­hor Ge­or­ge R.R. Mar­tin: The Rol­ling Stone In­ter­view   #

mi­kal gilm­o­re re­det mit ge­or­ge r.r. mar­tin. sehr le­sens­wert. das ist mei­ne lieb­ling­s­tel­le im in­ter­view:

We tal­ked ear­lier about your un­wil­ling­ness to fight in Viet­nam. The Ice and Fire books are shot th­rough with the hor­rors of war. As Ygrit­te says to Jon Snow, "We'­re just sol­diers in their ar­mies, and the­re's ple­nty more to car­ry on if we go down."
It's true in vir­tual­ly all wars th­rough histo­ry. Shake­speare re­fers to it, in tho­se gre­at sce­nes in Hen­ry V, whe­re King Hal is wal­king among the men, be­fo­re the Batt­le of Agin­court, and he he­ars the men com­plai­ning. "Well, I hope his cau­se is just, be­cau­se a lot of us are go­ing to die to make him king of France." One of the cen­tral ques­ti­ons in the book is Va­rys' ridd­le: The rich man, the priest and the king give an or­der to a com­mon sells­word. Each one says kill the other two. So who has the power? Is it the priest, who sup­po­sedly speaks for God? The king, who has the power of sta­te? The rich man, who has the gold? Of cour­se, does­n't the swords­man have the power? He's the one with the sword - he could kill all th­ree if he wan­ted. Or he could lis­ten to an­yo­ne. But he's just the avera­ge grunt. If he does­n't do what they say, then they each call other swords­men who will do what they say. But why does any­bo­dy do what they say? This is the fun­da­men­tal mys­tery of power and lea­der­ship and war th­rough all histo­ry. Go­ing back to Viet­nam, for me the co­gni­ti­ve dis­so­nan­ce came in when I rea­li­zed that Ho Chi Minh ac­tual­ly was­n't Sau­ron. Do you re­mem­ber the pos­ter du­ring that time? WHAT IF THEY GAVE A WAR AND NO­BO­DY CAME? Tha­t's one of the fun­da­men­tal ques­ti­ons here. Why did any­bo­dy go to Viet­nam? Were the peo­p­le who went more pa­trio­tic? Were they bra­ver? Were they stu­pi­der? Why does any­bo­dy go? Wha­t's all this ba­sed on? It's all ba­sed on an il­lu­si­on: You go be­cau­se you'­re afraid of what will hap­pen if you don't go, even if you don't be­lie­ve in it. But whe­re do the­se sys­tems of obe­dience come from? Why do we re­co­gni­ze power in­s­tead of in­di­vi­du­al au­to­no­my? The­se ques­ti­ons are fa­sci­na­ting to me. It's all this stran­ge il­lu­si­on, is­n't it?

/ge­fun­den bei kott­ke.org

  gno­gon­go.de: Mu­scha - Düs­sel­dorf 1981   #

ich bin nicht ganz si­cher was man auf dem bild sieht, aber es riecht sehr stark nach 80er jah­ren.