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Thank you Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch, Austrian Jew and sphygmomanomaster.

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So, what is the value of a human life, as a society that has shrugged off the burden of Enlightenment humanism collapses around us? Depends. Depends what mood we’re in. You can’t legislate morality! You have to have morality as an unspoken basis for your governance from the get-go. You either value human beings over profit, or you don’t. Guess which way our governing philosophy leans? Do not ask, it leans on thee. No one knows why.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen celebrates the life of Samuel Siegfried Karl Ritter von Basch, personal physician to Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, inventor of the blood pressure meter, escaper of revolutionary decapitation, low level nobleman and hero to those afflicted with high blood pressure in these hyper-tense times.

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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