Eric Franz Leher wrote:
>Unsubbing from here in
Which, I suspect, may have saved us all from some unpleasantness. For those who care, my argument was going to be that the only reason anyone gives a damn about sociobiology is that it is (erroneously) applied to humans, though I might have asked precisely *why* it is that the racist and sexist sociobiologists are "full of shit" in the context of their theory. I'd be lying if I denied, however, that I was also mulling over a few new permutations of the words "fuck" and "off" which had occurred to me over the weekend, however, so probably better for the general good vibe if this one is allowed to lapse. Hey ho hum.
Joanna wrote:
>La France n'existe pas
and Dennis R wrote
>(Something favourable about MC Solaar, can't remember what).
Hmmmmm .... while Solaar himself has had good minutes, like Wagner, he has some bloody awful three-quarters' of an hour. And Solaar represents the tip of a very, very large iceberg of French rap, most of which is atrocious. After three months of listening to Skyrock and RTL2, I came to the conclusion that French as a language simply doesn't have enough hard consonants to be a viable rap language. I realise that this would suggest that the ultimate rap language would be Finnish or something, but there are greater virtues than logical consistency.
Alexei Sayle, I think, was correct in saying that the key to understanding French culture is that nothing ever goes out of fashion there. Once you're famous in France, you're famous for life; their lack of Anglo-Saxon style rapid labour market turnover extends to the star system as well. So punk is not dead in France; nor is reggae; there are even quite a few benighted souls hanging round carrying saxophones and attempting to look tres cool. Which is why French television and film are so bizarre; they have to keep on using raddled old celebrities from the Vichy era, who haven't quite been pensioned off yet.
I mean, in a sane economy, would anyone think of casting Gerard Depardieu as anything ever, anymore?
Dennis P wrote:
> Is there another
> economic model beyond capitalism, apart from socialism >(which seems to
> lag behind its tormentor)?
In what sense are we talking of capitalism as an "economic model" here? Do we mean "market economies", do we mean strictly the capital owner/wage labourer social relation, or do we mean the full apparatus of neoliberal free-market ideology? Or to put it another way, would Korea, Japan, Sweden, Singapore and the USA count as 5 ,4 3, 2, or 1 economic models? I've a few ideas, but I'm not sure I'm not thinking at cross-purposes.
cheers
dd
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