The story of Pinocchio is based on the mistaken assumption that the community he lives in is generally just, and he is the one who needs to atone for his sins. Nothing is further from the truth, although this is not noticeable at first glance in Carlo Collodi's novel. Pinocchio is seemingly sinful and to be...

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MOC-OA organized a protest against the draft law on gender equality and the amendments to the Law on Civil Registry. And how can a protest against the promotion of a right be justified? Only by referring to dogmas, presented discreetly enough not to be recognized as dogmas. By spreading fear that someone's right will endanger the future of children. Through...

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Superbly written, Salman Rushdie's short story The Prophet's Lock is an anti-dogmatic short story. It is so fast and dynamic that by the end of the first paragraph the young boy with whom the story begins is almost dead from a violent attack. And all the subsequent events in this simultaneously realistic, magical-realistic, allegorical, cruel, satirical, playful, dark story with poetic details have ...

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