Overal heerscht de kastegeest en domperij!

06:05 Apr 12, 2012 

There are two, common, historical and intellectual, denotations: 1) restricting knowledge—opposition to the spread of knowledge, a policy of withholding knowledge from the public, and, 2) deliberate obscurity—an abstruse style (as in literature and art) characterized by deliberate vagueness

06:04 Apr 12, 2012 

Spoke to the author Paul Bordewijk (by e-mailing him) who wrote in his book: In dat verband noemt hij aan de ene kant tolerantie en vrijheid, en daartegenover voorzichtigheid en domperij

Asked what he meant by domperij, he said;

De term 'domperij' komt uit het boekje van Jos Palm. Het is geen erg gebruikelijke term. Hij is denk ik afgeleid van 'domper'. De uitdrukking 'hij zet er een domper op' betekent 'hij maakt een eind aan het enthousiasme'. Het komt dus in de buurt van onderdrukking, wat u noemt (oppressed).

Thus not intolerance or else the writers using this little-used word would have simply written intolerantie but the DUTCH word 'intolerantie' does not convey the same sense/message/content that domperij does.


Obscurantism (French: obscurantisme, from the Latin obscurans, “darkening”) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known.

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23:10 Apr 11, 2012 

"Domperij is not intolerance". This might shed some light: http://www.wnt.inl.nl/iWDB/search?actie=article_content&wdb=...

17:55 Apr 11, 2012 

1/ If intolerance was meant, then why did the author not simply use that word in Dutch, as the English and Dutch versions are almost identical and mean exactly the same thing?

2/ If mentality was meant then why not use the Dutch word mentaliteit in the original?

16:09 Apr 10, 2012 

Friedrich Nietzsche said:

“The essential element in the black art of obscurantism is not that it wants to darken individual understanding, but that it wants to blacken our picture of the world, and darken our idea of existence.”

13:36 Apr 10, 2012 

Well, there's absolutely nothing positive about that sentence. Van Doesburg was raged because the public wasn't open to new, abstract, experimental art (non-figurative), they were stuck in old habits. "Domperij" here, is more like the public sticking to oldness, muffyness, mouldness, clamminess, not necessarily intolerance. Although mainly autodidact, V.D. started out as a figurative painter (Amsterdam School).