The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday March 24th, 2023 – World TB Day
World TB Day commemorates 24 March 1882 when Dr Robert Koch discovered what causes tuberculosis. But over a century later the disease kills around 1.7 million people a year. So what exactly is TB?
An infection caused by bacteria that mainly affects the lungs – although different types can affect other parts of the body. Tuberculosis symptoms include coughing up blood or phlegm, weight loss and a loss of appetite. The good news is that with treatment a treatment of antibiotics TB is relatively straight- forward to cure. The World TB Day website has lots of information about events taking place to raise awareness of TB.
Patterns by Jan Sand
There are all sorts. One dimensional, two dimensional, three
dimensional, four dimensional, five dimensional and so on up. The word
“dimension” means to measure and it is not only extensions in space and
time that can be measured.
There are patterns of shape
and sound and feeling and social inter-relationships. Patterns are
discerned from the inputs of each of our senses individually and in
concert and with the creation of instruments that discern patterns
beyond our inbuilt sense capability so that a much more extensive range
of the electromagnetic spectrum is now a substantial part of our
understanding of the universe.
Human minds, as well as those of other animals, are adept at sensing patterns of all types and, since even plants have inbuilt systems for reacting to and remembering light and moisture and atmosphere and physical forces, even creatures bereft of nervous systems must be aware of patterns to remain viable.
Creative people are especially sensitive to varieties of pattern since their business is intensely concerned with discerning relationships and rearranging their components to discover new types of order. Very frequently there is severe negative reaction to the introduction of new patterns into human culture. This occurs in music, the visual arts, theater, politics, science, religion, philosophy, and many personal social activities.
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Stinking breath of my pen #poem by Mbizo Chirasha
“Greasy propaganda apples for peasants
bourgeoisie for sweating corruption omelet
villagers for cassava and diet coke
streets for hip hop and toy guns
school uniform for phd studies and bible for my daughter
wreath for saint valentine
roses for saint paul”
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Wilhelm Reich: A Taoist in Freudian Disguise by Rene Wadlow
Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957) whose birth anniversary we note on 24 March was part of the Vienna circle of Sigmund Freud in the 1920s after the First World War in which Reich had served in the Austrian army on the Italian front. Reich was born in a town in what was then the Austria-Hungarian Empire (now in Ukraine). He was attracted to Vienna, not as a seat of political power but as a city of rich and cosmopolitan intellectual life. Reich’s parents had been non-practicing Jews, and Reich had little knowledge of or interest in Jewish religious thought. However for the Nazis, Jews were an ethnic group unrelated to any religious doctrines. Reich saw what might happen and in the mid-1930s moved to Scandinavia and at the end of the 1930s to the USA only a few days before the outbreak of World War II.
He was all the more sensitive to socio-political currents in Austria and Germany that he was a member of the Socialist Party which evolved into the German Communist Party. Reich, however, had a character that disturbed all his co-workers. He was expelled from the Communist Party which felt that Reich put too much emphasis on psychological conditioning of the individual and not enough on the class struggle. He was also expelled from the Freudian circles, the Psychoanalytic Association, for putting too much emphasis on class conflict and not enough on sexuality.
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Fika bonding! #55 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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