"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, above all, to make you see." -- Joseph Conrad (1897)
I'm not leaving. This is my country. I love it (yes, I love it--but that doesn't mean that I want to engage in a sick, co-dependent, unreflective nationalist/patriotic relationship)--it is worth defending its principles and pursuing radical democratic policies.
Harry--you are so right, the red/blue state thing maps over a wide diversity of peoples, cultures and beliefs--the map is not the place, it is but a distorted representation (a bastardization of the thoughts of a long line of philosophers)
I'm not leaving. This is my country. I love it (yes, I love it--but that doesn't mean that I want to engage in a sick, co-dependent, unreflective nationalist/patriotic relationship)--it is worth defending its principles and pursuing radical democratic policies.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link to Lohmann's Zombie essays!
Harry--you are so right, the red/blue state thing maps over a wide diversity of peoples, cultures and beliefs--the map is not the place, it is but a distorted representation (a bastardization of the thoughts of a long line of philosophers)
ReplyDeleteit was pretty awesome.
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