Mother's Boy - with Howard Jacobson
Unholy: Two Jews on the News
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The Tragic View of Life
The tragedy is inimical to faith based civilizations because they can't accept that a thing might happen for just no reason. Amos Oz talks about there are two rights that's a tragic idea that this party is right and that party is right where do you go then when he grew much gloomier he said this person is wrong that person is wrong the conflict of two rights the conflict oftwo wrongs it's the same idea except one's getting much more bitter than the other. The politically minded person who demonstrates on the street nobody believes in tragedy demonstrates on the streets whether people would have demonstrated on the streets of Troy I don't know but the minute you put a placard in your hand you
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