Κοιτάξτε πώς
μεγαλώνουν τα παιδιά σας. Μαθημένα από τα πρώτα τους χρόνια να χαλιναγωγούν τη
φυσική τους αγάπη, περιορισμένα σε κάθε στιγμή! Τα καταραμένα σας ψέματα
κηλιδώνουν ακόμη και το φιλί ενός παιδιού. Τα μικρά κορίτσια δεν πρέπει να
είναι αγοροκόριτσα, ξυπόλυτα, να σκαρφαλώνουν στα δέντρα, να κολυμπούν, δεν
πρέπει να κάνουν τίποτα απ’ αυτά που επιθυμούν, επειδή ο καθωσπρεπισμός τα
θεωρεί «ανάρμοστα». Τα μικρά αγόρια χλευάζονται ως θηλυπρεπή, αν θελήσουν να
παίξουν με υφάσματα ή με κούκλες. Και όταν μεγαλώσουν: «Α! Οι άντρες δε
νοιάζονται για το σπίτι και τα παιδιά, όσο οι γυναίκες!» Πώς να νοιαστούν, αφού
η επισταμένη προσπάθεια σ’ όλη σας τη ζωή συνέτριψε αυτό το κομμάτι της φύσης
τους.
«Οι γυναίκες
δεν μπορούν να τα βγάλουν πέρα όπως οι άντρες». Εκπαιδεύστε οποιοδήποτε ζώο ή
φυτό, όπως εκπαιδεύετε τα κορίτσια σας, και θα δείτε τα ίδια αποτελέσματα.
Μπορείτε τώρα να μου πείτε για ποιο λόγο να υπάρχουν περιορισμοί φύλου στα
αθλητικά σπορ; Για ποιο λόγο να μη χρησιμοποιεί όπως θέλει τα μέλη του σώματός του,
οποιοδήποτε παιδί;… Τώρα η θεραπεία. Αυτή βρίσκεται σε μία λέξη, τη μόνη λέξη
που έφερε ποτέ δικαιοσύνη – ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑ! Μόνο αιώνες ελευθερίας θα πετύχουν την
αποικοδόμηση και εξασθένηση αυτών των μολυσματικών ιδεών. Η ελευθερία ήταν αυτή
που σταμάτησε τα ποτάμια αίματος των θρησκευτικών καταδιώξεων! Δε θεραπεύεται η
σκλαβιά με κανένα άλλο υποκατάστατο. Μην λέτε «έτσι πρέπει να ερωτεύεται το
ανθρώπινο είδος». Αφήστε το είδος ελεύθερο."
Ευτυχώς γλυτώσαμε ακόμη μια φορά. Για φανταστείτε να μην
γινόταν η αξιολόγηση. Για φανταστείτε να μην είχαμε να πληρώσουμε τους δανειστές.
Δεν θα είχαμε να φάμε. Δεν θα είχαμε καύσιμα, χαρτί υγείας, φάρμακα. Δεν θα
μπορούσαμε να ταξιδέψουμε. Όσο για δουλειές, άστα! Δεν θα είχαμε πια ούτε ένα
γιαουρτάκι για τον παππού και τη γιαγιά. Αφήστε που οι Τούρκοι, οι Αλβανοί,
μαζί με τον Αλάριχο, την Ζήνα (την πολέμαρχο κι όχι την τραγουδίστρια) μαζί με
τον Αττίλα θα ρήμαζαν με επιδρομές τον άτυχο τόπο μας.
Η «Χούντα» το ‘74 παραδίδει στον
«Εθνάρχη» υγιές χρέος 330 εκατ. (υγιές διότι λόγω μεγάλης βιομηχανικής και
αγροτικής ανάπτυξης το χρέος αυτο-εξοφλείτο).
- Ο «Εθνάρχης» μετατρέπει το χρέος
μετά από 7 χρόνια σε 8 ΔΙΣ (σημειώστε πετρελαϊκή κρίση του 1977).
- Ο Ανδρέας κλείνει με δυο τρόπους
(υπερ-πολλαπλασιασμός μισθών και εισφορών μέσα σε μια νύχτα & των απεργιών)
όλες τις τεράστιες βιομηχανίες (ΙΖΟΛΑ, ΠΙΤΣΟΣ, ΕΛΙΝΤΑ, ΠΕΙΡΑΙΚΗ ΠΑΤΡΑΙΚΗ, ΧΡΩΠΕΙ
κτλ κτλ κτλ) και εφαρμόζει το οικονομικό τερτίπι που λέγεται «EASY MONEY
SYSTEM» σε επίπεδο κράτους, δηλαδή παίρνει δάνεια (από τις Εβραϊκές Τράπεζες
του Ροκφέλερ που πρωτύτερα είχαν σχεδιάσει οργανώσει και χρηματοδοτήσει την
δημιουργία του ΠΑΣΟΚ) και μοιράζει τα χρήματα στους πολίτες, δηλαδή γεμίζει την
αγορά με χρήμα (όχι όμως υγιή αλλά δανεικά με ασύλληπτους τόκους).
Atheists are
more intelligent than religious people, say researchers
New paper
sets out to explain negative correlation between faith and intellect found in
dozens of past studies
Religious people are less intelligent on average than
atheists because faith is an instinct and clever people are better at rising
above their instincts, researchers have claimed.
The theory — called the 'Intelligence-Mismatch
Association Model' — was proposed by a pair of authors who set out to explain
why numerous studies over past decades have found religious people to have
lower average intelligence than people who do not believe in a god.
A 2013 analysis by University of Rochester found “a
reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity” in 53 out of
63 historic studies.
A negative correlation between intelligence and
religion makes sense if religion is considered an instinct, and intelligence
the ability to rise above one's instincts, say researchers Edward Dutton and
Dimitri van der Linden in their new paper published today.
Writing for Springer’s journal of Evolutionary
Psychological Science, the authors – who are based at the Ulster Institute for
Social Research and Rotterdam University respectively – explained their model
is based on the ideas of evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa.
Mr Kanazawa's 'Savanna-IQ Principles' suggest human
behaviour will always be guided by the environment in which their ancestors
developed.
Mr Dutton and Mr van der Linden argue in keeping with
this that religion should be considered an 'evolved domain' — or instinct.
Rising above instincts is advantageous, they said in a
statement, because it helps people to solve problems.
“If religion is an evolved domain then it is an
instinct, and intelligence — in rationally solving problems — can be understood
as involving overcoming instinct and being intellectually curious and thus open
to non-instinctive possibilities,” explained Mr Dutton.
According to the 2013 review, the more intelligent a
child is — even during early years — the
more likely it is to turn away from religion.
In old age, above-average-intelligence people are less
likely to believe in a god.
Mr Dutton and Mr van der Linden also investigated the
link between instinct and stress, and the instinctiveness with which people
tend to operate during stressful periods.
They argue that being intelligent helps people during
stressful times to weigh up their options and act rationally rather than give
in to knee-jerk responses.
“If religion is indeed an evolved domain — an instinct
— then it will become heightened at times of stress, when people are inclined
to act instinctively, and there is clear evidence for this,” said Mr Dutton.
“It also means that intelligence allows us to able to
pause and reason through the situation and the possible consequences of our
actions.”
The researchers believe that people who are attracted
to the non-instinctive are potentially better problem solvers.
“This is important, because in a changing ecology, the
ability to solve problems will become associated with rising above our
instincts, rendering us attracted to evolutionary mismatches,” said Mr van der
Linden.
Diamanda Galás (born August 29, 1955) is an American
avant-garde soprano, composer, pianist, organist, performance artist, and
painter.
Galás has been described as "capable of the most
unnerving vocal terror". Her works largely concentrate on the topics of
AIDS, mental illness, despair, injustice, condemnation, and loss of dignity.
She has worked with many avant-garde composers, including Iannis Xenakis, Vinko
Globokar and John Zorn, and also collaborated with jazz musician Bobby
Bradford, and John Paul Jones, former bassist of Led Zeppelin.
Background and education
Galás was born and raised in San Diego, CA to Greek
Orthodox parents. She studied a wide range of musical forms, and played gigs in
San Diego with her father, also a musician, performing Greek and Arabic
music.
Early career
After moving to Europe, Galas made her solo
performance debut at the Festival d'Avignon, in France, in 1979, performing the
lead in the opera Un Jour comme un autre, by composer Vinko Globokar, based
upon Amnesty International's documentation of the arrest and torture of a
Turkish woman for alleged treason. Her first album was The
Litanies of Satan, released in 1982. Her second album, Diamanda Galas, was
released in 1984.
Her work first garnered widespread attention with The
Masque of the Red Death, an operatic trilogy which includes The Divine
Punishment, Saint of the Pit and You Must Be Certain of the Devil. In it, she
details the suffering of people with AIDS. Shortly after the recording of the
trilogy's first volume began, her brother, playwright Philip-Dimitri Galás,
became sick with the disease, which goaded Galás to redouble her efforts.
Philip-Dimitri Galás died in 1986, just before the completion of the
trilogy.
Career
Diamanda Galás at the QE Hall in London
Galás began writing and performing on the subject of
AIDS in 1984, while living in San Francisco. In 1988 she joined ACT UP, the
AIDS activist group.
On December 10, 1989, Galás was arrested inside Saint
Patrick's Cathedral, as part of ACT UP's Stop the Church demonstration, while
protesting John Cardinal O'Connor's opposition both to AIDS education, and to
the distribution of condoms in public schools. She was one of 53 people
arrested inside the cathedral.
Galás appears on the 1989 studio album Moss Side Story
by former Magazine and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds instrumentalist Barry
Adamson. Moss Side Story is a "soundtrack for a non-existent film
noir".
In 1990 Galás performed at the Cathedral of Saint John
the Divine in New York, the recording of which was released in 1991 as Plague
Mass, in which she criticized the Roman Catholic Church for its indifference to
AIDS.
Galás also sings in a blues style, interpreting a wide
range of blues songs with her unique piano and vocal styles. This aspect of her
work is perhaps best represented by her 1992 album, The Singer, on which she
covered Willie Dixon, Roy Acuff, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, as well as
"Gloomy Sunday", a song written by Hungarian pianist and composer
Rezső Seress in 1933 and translated into English by Desmond Carter.
In 1993 Galás released Judgement Day, a video of her
performances, and Vena Cava, a live album, recorded at The Kitchen in 1992.
In 1994 Galás collaborated with Led Zeppelin bassist
John Paul Jones, a longtime admirer of the singer. The resulting record, The
Sporting Life, was released the same year. She was also featured on the
soundtrack for Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.
In 1995 Galás contributed her voice to the eponymous
album of British synth-pop duo, Erasure, at the invitation of the lead singer,
Andy Bell
Galás has published one book, The Shit of God, in
1996. It contains many of her original writings. Also in 1996, she released
Schrei X, a live recording.
In 1997, Galás contributed vocals to the album Closed
on Account of Rabies, a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe which also included Iggy
Pop, Debbie Harry and Marianne Faithfull, lending their voices to the tales of
the legendary author. Galás' reading of "The Black Cat" was the
longest recording on the compilation.
In 1998 Galás released Malediction and Prayer, which
was recorded live in 1996 and 1997.
In 2000 Galás worked with Recoil, contributing her
voice to the album Liquid. She's the lead vocalist on the album's first single,
"Strange Hours", for which she also wrote the lyrics, and can be
heard on "Jezebel" and "Vertigen" as a backing vocalist.
In August 2004 Galás released the album Defixiones,
Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead, an 80-minute memorial to the
Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Hellenic victims of the Turkish genocide.
Defixiones refers to the warnings on Greek gravestones against removing the
remains of the dead. In December 2004 Galás released, La Serpenta Canta a live
album including material recorded between May 1999 & November 2002.
In 2005, Galás was awarded Italy's prestigious
Demetrio Stratos International Career Award.
In 2008, Galás released her seventh live album, Guilty
Guilty Guilty.
Galás' vocals from her song "Orders from the
Dead" were used on the album Aealo by Greek black metal band Rotting
Christ, released in February 2010.
In 2011, she collaborated with Soviet dissident artist
Vladislav Shabalin for "Aquarium", a sound installation inspired by
the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The event took place at
Leonhardskirche in Basel (Switzerland) from June 12 to 19.[8]
In 2013, Galás and Vladislav Shabalin had the sound
installation "Aquarium" May 9 to 12 in the church of San Francesco in
Udine (Italy), at the festival "Vicino/Lontano".
Galás is currently working on remastering her albums
for release later 2016.
Film work
Galás has often worked in the film industry. She was
the voice of the dead in The Serpent and the Rainbow. A cover of the
Schwartz-Dietz song "Dancing in the Dark" appears in Clive Barker's
film Lord of Illusions during the closing credits. "Le Treizième
Revient" and "Exeloume" appear on the soundtrack to Derek
Jarman's The Last of England. She contributed vocals to Francis Ford Coppola's
1992 film Dracula as a group of female vampires, and vocal improvisation to
Hideo Nakata's 2005 film The Ring Two. Excerpts from Galás' "I Put a Spell
on You", "Vena Cava", "The Lord is My Shepherd", and "Judgement
Day" can be heard in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.
In 2011, she premiered the film Schrei 27, made in
collaboration with Italian filmmaker Davide Pepe. Based on Galás' 1994 radio
piece, Schrei X, a co-commission of New American Radio and the Walker Art
Center, the film is described as an "unrelenting" portrait of a body
suffering torture in a medical facility.
Most recently she contributed vocal work and
composition to James Wan's 2013 horror film The Conjuring, and "Free Among
the Dead", from Galás' The Divine Punishment was featured in Zoe
Mavroudi's 2013 documentary about the criminalization of AIDS, Ruins: Chronicle
of an HIV Witch-Hunt.
Influences
Galás has cited multiple artists as influences on her
music, including Maria Callas, Annette Peacock, Patty Waters, John Lee Hooker,
and Johnny Cash. She is also influenced greatly by Greek and Middle Eastern
styles of singing, as well as blues music.
Discography
Studio albums
1979 – If Looks Could Kill (w/Jim French and Henry
Kaiser)
