Why does the entelechy of the force of critical thinking invariably turn into its own caricature? In our triple-dub times of World War "W" the strategic values of deconstruction are being used to dismantle the very idea of democracy and our C-in-C condescends to practice a Brechtian sense of politics as the arrogant theatre of performative artifice. Oh, that ancient Chinese curse - may you live in the most "interesting" of times. Will it ever not be true?
2006-09-27
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Isn't the Chinese curse that you should live in interesting times -- any such times at all --, rather than "the most 'interesting' of times"? Your version seems coloured by a peculiarly American fascination with being #1. Also, do the Chinese have the concept of scare quotes?
You might want to try writing more clearly. Though when I do so I sometimes wish later that I hadn't.
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