‘David, you are one of the least predatory and most lovely people I know. What is your secret? ”, Arnon Grunberg asked in the make -up The philosophical quintet (NPO 2) to David van Reybrouck. “You don’t know me Arnon well, that’s the problem,” replied the thinker of the Netherlands with a naughty smile. “I am incredibly predatory, just like every copy of the species.”
Philosopher René ten Bos, also a guest, did not agree. As a person, we indeed live on a different life, but we are rather parasitic. Discussion leader Grunberg distilled: “The parasite has an interest in his host lives, the predator eats his host with skin and her.”
Angela de Jong stops her TV column after fifteen years in it Ad. She is struggling. No successor was found, she told at the table Renze on Sunday (RTL 4), to a stunned presenter: “You think there are a lot of people who want to watch television six evenings a week a week and capture themselves in such a way that you can’t go to theater, not at the cinema, not eating out, nothing?” But there is a downside: it is very honorable to have your place in the newspaper, says De Jong. Fortunately, De Jong will write general columns every day on page 2 of it Ad.
With the otherwise rather tough quintet (which was another quartet), it was still a lot about the end of time. According to philosopher Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp, we have to wonder where the ethical limits of predatory feature are. At the table she did not get a satisfactory answer to that. The viewer is: later that day on the same channel.
Dalai Lama
Sunday, July 6, was also the day when Tenzin Gyatso, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, was ninety years old. Although Gyatso predicts that he will be 130, Tibetans are very worried about his follow -up, two documentaries of The Buddist look (NPO 2).
When China invaded Tibet in 1950, it was the start of a decades -long occupation. After a failed rebellion against Chinese authority in 1959, the Dalai Lama fled through the mountains to North India, where he has since been leading a government in exile. That many Tibetans, but also many people in the West feel a deep connection with Gyatso, was seen in the DIY documentary My Religion is Childnessfrom artist and filmmaker Babeth M. Vanloo, and the movingly strong documentary Inside China: The Battle for Tibet.
The latter tells the story of the disappearance of the Panchen Lama, the second most important spiritual leader of Tibet, who was abducted by the Chinese authorities thirty years ago. Gendün Chökyi Nyima was six years old at the time, there was never anything from him again. The Chinese did designate their own Panchen Lama in 1995: Gyaltsen Norbu, son of two members of the Communist Party. According to Tibetan use, the Panchen Lama determines the successor of the Dalai Lama.
Undercover Journalist Chang moves in the ‘Tibetan Autonomous Region’, one of the most strictly guarded areas in the world. Because of his hidden camera, police posts can be seen at every intersection, buildings full of cameras and taxi drivers who do not dare to talk about the Dalai Lama. It is estimated that there are now a million Tibetan children at Chinese boarding schools, where they learn mandarin and are flooded with Chinese propaganda. Many barely speak Tibetan. “If those schools still exist for 15 to twenty years, the entire Tibetan culture will be destroyed,” said education sociologist Gyal Lo, who did research into the boarding schools.
So in Tibet they know exactly where the ethical limits of predeedness are. With the ninetieth anniversary of the Dalai Lama, this 4,700 year old, unique culture, comes a step closer to its end. That drink talk show Renze on Sunday There is a lot of seconds to pay attention to this, is incomprehensible. But Angela de Jong’s daily column is simply bigger news.