--- geert lovink <geert at desk.nl> wrote:
> > I'm now trying to get word out that I've had to
> make a major revision
> > in my total due to two books.
> > One is Wild Swans: Two Daughters of China by Jung
> Chang, and the other
> > is Mao: the Unknown Story
> > that she wrote with her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm
> now convinced that
> > that Stalin exceeded Hitler
> > in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...]
That settles it. The "Free World" was right fighting that evil tyranny to the last Asian, African, and Latin American. USA! USA! USA!
Since I am alrady overposing and I will not post anything else today, let me just offer a more general comment about this kinds of writing - not just to this list but in general. These stories about the number of innocent victims brutually murdered by dictators, racist discriminnation of criminals and murderers, sexist remarks by vile celebrities, cops, and public officials and kindred rants shown to us on tee-vee and other media in carefully orchestarted "minutes of hate, belong to the same genre as xtian martyrdom tales that infest European galleries and art museums and more recently, the AM airwaves in the US. They are all bad literature shamelessly manipulating human emotions. Deriding them is a form of literary criticism that exposes their intellectual poverty and a shallow an manipulative nature, and does not reflect in any way this writer's views on actual discrimination, torture, inequality, authoritarianism, murder, history, people of various ethnic or national background, or political philosophy.
Have a happy xmas, everyone.
Wojtek
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