> --- lweiger at umich.edu wrote:
> Fine. If I were a tyrant of such erractic judgment
> and bloated ego
> that many
> questioned my sanity, I would be more _________.
>
> Adjectives like "spiffy" or "sophisticated" somehow
> don't seem fitting.
>
> -- Luke
> ---
> Dude, my point was just that it's badly done
> propaganda. If you are trying to improve the image of
> your country abroad, you do stuff that makes your
> country like good. Tou don't write paeons to the great
> leader. Look at Stalin -- Stalin had great foreign PR.
> Foreign intellectuals were at his beck and call.
Whoops. That should've been "erratic." Anyway, my point is just that it's not really surprising that someone like K would demand "paeons to the great leader" even though doing so isn't instrumentally rational.
-- Luke