> Earnest or ironic, your posts just show that you are not only misinformed
> about the history of Yugoslavia but also are clueless about how Yugoslavia
> (besides Haiti, Somalia, East Timor, etc.) has been used to create a
> climate in which Gitlin's 'Yes' reverbarates among a fairly large number of
> liberals and even those who may be legitimately called leftists. In this
> process, (post)modern culturalist applications of local understandings of
> race & ethnicity to the areas where such understandings obscure, rather
> than clarify, social relations have been part of the problem, not the
> solution.
so you're a pragmatic platonist, is what you're saying.
> The failure of irony is the least of your problem. I simply note here that
> irony is only fine in the hands of those who know how to use it, to make it
> equal to reality.
check out my new .sig:
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The failure of irony is the least of your problem. I simply note
here that irony is only fine in the hands of those who know how to
use it, to make it equal to reality. - y. furuhashi
do you like it? here's my old one:
- "...curse you, Byfield....Nurse! Time for my bong hit..."
cheers, t