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My mom's friend (who is very cool) sent me this the other day: "The loud little handful -- as usual -- will shout for the war. The pulpit will -- warily and cautiously -- object . . . at first. The great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indigantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will out-shout them, and presently the antiwar audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long, you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by the hordes of furious men. . . . Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -Mark Twain (written about one hundred years ago) |
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READ! |
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never let school get in the way of your education |
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mark twain was truely a brilliant writer, id day he was one of the most famous (yet unnoticed and underestimateed) american philosophers ever. |
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sounds a bit like "The Gulf War did not take place" by Jean Baudrillard ... lies, lies, lies! |
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I'm not big on postmodern deconstructionist critical theory stuff, but I must say Baudrillard has great one liners. "There is no reason why Disney would not take over the human genome, which, by the way, is already being resequenced, to turn it into a genetic show. " *cackle* |
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I wouldn't call meself a "postmodern deconstructionist critical theory stuff" But I do like reading the stuff ... dunno, almost like a nostalgic fetish thing? Baudrillard eh .. haven't read them, but those books "Cool Memories" [or something along those lines] sound quite classic. |
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I see that whole hegel heidegger debord vaneigem lacan foucault derrida baudrillard continuum as one long braided nut paste sedan. They all got their Doctor Who doctorates in Who-ville and like an anti-Tardis they're smaller on the inside than on the outside. |
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nut paste sedan ... nice. you forgot Nietzsche ... he's the biggest/smallest of them all! :) what flavour car taketh you then eh? |
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