Over Mem Day weekend I went to the Chicago History Museum - too see the Dior exhibit. Gorgeous stuff. Dresses with 22 inch waists. Serious corset time, ladies and gents! Very slinky. "She came at me in sections, more curves than a scenic railway."
Also went to the Haymarket exhibit. There is a voice reading pro and anti-anarchist/socialist/communist propaganda. My fave was a bit of anti-a/s/c stuff from a big Chicago paper, not the Trib, which involved a series of oppositions. "They are for chaos and against order, they are for destruction and against creation," -- probably Carrol could tell us the name of that trope -- the first element of which was Bad and the second Good. One opposition went: "They are for assassination and against war." Hmmm. Between the two, if you _had_ to pick, and I hope we don't, which is worse?
--- "B." <docile_body at yahoo.com> wrote:
> [Zeollick is a Grade-A motherfucker. He has been one
> of the most ardent opponents of the anti-corporate
> globalization movement and uses a lot of
> ideologically
> charged talk. Below is from a speech he made in 2001
> that brings up socialists and anarchists and lots of
> other colorful stuff. He refers to folks throwing
> stuff at windows; i.e. the '99 'Battle of Seattle'
> anti-WTO protests. -B.]
>
>
>
http://www.embaixada-americana.org.br/index.php?action=materia&id=827&submenu=3&itemmenu=28
>
>
> ZOELLICK: As President Bush explained, the
> terrorists
> who attacked the United States did so because they
> hate our freedoms. They "kill not merely to end
> lives,
> but to disrupt and end a way of life. . . . They
> stand
> against us, because we stand in their way."
>
> [...]
>
> Not long ago, Chairman Greenspan gave a speech in
> which he pointed out that the degree of openness in
> the world today is about what it was a hundred years
> ago. We only recently attained the level of trade as
> a
> percentage of the global economy that existed in the
> late 19th century. The figures for capital flows are
> similar. Global immigration, too, was at a high
> point
> a century ago. [...] There were even great social
> movements sparked by globalization, although the
> participants in the revived Olympics of 1896 ran
> around a track, instead of in the streets, and
> hurled
> objects toward chalk lines, instead of at windows.
>
> Yet as Barbara Tuchman's book _The_Proud_Tower_
> vibrantly describes, the years from 1890 to 1914
> were
> also rattled by crashing debates in the Socialist
> International and anarchists bent on senseless
> destruction. As Tuchman recounts, at the turn of the
> century theorists and thinkers called for a
> stateless
> society, without government and law, without
> ownership
> of property, without the ruling class and their
> despised ally, the bourgeoisie. "Tirades of hate and
> invective" trumpeted calls for action. Others were
> driven to deeds: "These became the Assassins."
>
> Eventually, a terrorist, Gavrilo Princip, who
> belonged
> to a shadowy group named the Black Hand, triggered a
> cataclysm that began in the Balkans, but spread
> throughout the world. The point of this brief
> recollection is to caution that no future is
> inevitable. The hopeful prospects of 100 years ago -
> that age of globalization - were overwhelmed by
> other
> "isms": dangerous, even terrifying ideas, such as
> fascism, authoritarianism, corporatism, communism, a
> new mercantilism, isolationism, and protectionism.
> The
> world learned anew that not all ideas are good. Bad
> ideas can lead to cruelties and tragedies:
> depression,
> mass starvation, economic disasters, even wars and
> genocide. Thus it took American advocacy for
> openness,
> growth, and individual liberty over the past 50
> years
> to reverse the disastrous decisions made in the
> first
> half of the twentieth century.
>
> In the wake of the shock of 13 days ago, many people
> will struggle to understand why terrorists hate the
> ideas America has championed around the world.
>
> [...]
>
>
http://www.embaixada-americana.org.br/index.php?action=materia&id=827&submenu=3&itemmenu=28
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