A human being died that night
by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela · first published 2003
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"Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned apartheid death squads, is currently serving a 212-year sentence for crimes against humanity. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, who grew up in a black township in South Africa served as a psychologist on that country's great national experiment in healing, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. As this book opens, in an act of inescapable, multilayered symbolism and extraordinary psychological courage, Gobodo-Madikizela enters Pretoria's maximum security prison to meet the man called "Prime Evil." What follows is a journey into what it mean
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…• Moral Tribes by Joshua Greene • Chimpanzee Politics by Frans de Waal • Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture by Johan Huizinga • The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod • A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Story of Forgiveness by Pumla Gobo-Madikizela
on “Chomsky – The Machine, the Ghost and the Limits of Understanding (2012) [video]” ↗…1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcgcFbPTwys Mind & Life Session 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoAEEAq8idU I highly recommend you read Pumla's book (who appears in the second conversation): "A Human Being Died that Night" which is highly illustrative of the power of compassion for others even in the midst of human rights violations.
on “Overcoming Us vs. Them (2017)” ↗