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Raymond Leos retweeted
28 Jun 2024
It has just been announced that famed Cambodian musician Kong Nay has passed away at the age of 80.
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Raymond Leos retweeted
16 May 2024
"Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another."
— Hannah Arendt
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Raymond Leos retweeted
15 Aug 2021
Philip Short referencing Norman Davies in his 1999 bio of Mao Zedong.
Indeed.
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11 May 2024
On a personal note, on April 15, after 3 years as Associate Vice President at American University of Phnom Penh, I was appointed Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs. Many thanks to the administration for their support & trust over the past 3 years. Humbled & honored.
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11 May 2024
Approaching my 3 year anniversary at American University of Phnom Penh (AUPP). It's been a challenging, but also an exciting, interesting, and rewarding 3 years of transitioning into academic administration. 1\
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Raymond Leos retweeted
22 Nov 2023
"To look to the past in order to find analogies by which to solve our present problems is, in my opinion, a mythological error."
— Hannah Arendt
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Raymond Leos retweeted
4 Nov 2023
"A sickness known as hate. Not a virus, not a microbe, not a germ — but a sickness nonetheless, highly contagious, deadly in its effects. Don't look for it in the Twilight Zone — look for it in a mirror. Look for it before the light goes out altogether."
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Raymond Leos retweeted
1 Nov 2023
Hannah Arendt's syllabus for The Origins of Totalitarianism taught at Berkeley in 1955.
Sections include: the decay of the nation-state, ideology, nihilism, antisemitism, revolution from the Right, propaganda, the police, concentration camps and demographic policies.
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Raymond Leos retweeted
30 Oct 2023
"Explain why intellectuals can be attracted by a totalitarian ideology."
Hannah Arendt's final exam for Contemporary Issues taught at Berkeley in 1955.
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Raymond Leos retweeted
29 Oct 2023
"When a Nietzsche, a Dostoyevsky, a Kierkegaard uncovers a human universe for us, when the material universe displays [before us] the depths of the history of the earth or spaces between the stars, theological thought is obliged to broaden itself to their measure."
- Jean Danielou
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22 Oct 2023
I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love
I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
— Sylvia Plath
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22 Oct 2023
Jack Kerouac, 12 March 1922--21 October 1969.
"I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds." From "Lonesome Traveler", 1960.
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Raymond Leos retweeted
20 Oct 2023
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame
WH Auden
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Raymond Leos retweeted
9 Oct 2023
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I finished teaching a course on evil last Thursday. The last reading we discussed was Hannah Arendt’s “Thinking and Moral Considerations.” In the essay Arendt asks how politics can become so divorced from reality as to destroy our sense of moral judgment.
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Raymond Leos retweeted
2 Oct 2023
Excellent advice from Vincent van Gogh on this day in 1884. Really wish I could follow it.
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Raymond Leos retweeted
1 Oct 2023
"The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness." Happy Feast of St. Thérèse of Lisieux!
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