Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 06:18:35 -0800 (PST)
From: Maldoror <insektus-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: NYT Op-Ed Salman Rushdie 271102


> Is he ignorant, or does he (Rushdie) choose not to. 


supposing he wanted to, do you think the Ameri-Israeli
media would allow it? the media has final say over
what's printed/said which is why anything decent that
can be said is relegated to the dissident journals and
other things the masses are made unaware of.

> Salman continues to spread the rumor
> that there are only
> crazies, fundamentalists and terrorists 

i don't think he's saying that. he just happens to
focus on them, which i think is human nature to look
at the bad before the good. for example if you see a
rare flower that is beautiful and then an hour later
see a train wreck, which are you going to mention to
your friends if there's a choice. probably the train
wreck. rushdie happens to be talking about the train
wrecks instead of the flowers.

unfortunately he happens to be following the status
quo which always defaults to the negative because the
positive really isn't all that interesting when it
comes to selling news.


> Is dissidence and
> resistance effective or even
> legitimate when in the end those that are heard are
> recuperated by the
> dominant discourse

probably not. if there was any legitimacy in terms of
affecting the world i think there would be more
change. while i enjoy dissident authors and sympathize
greatly with socialist and anarchist causes i think
that the writers are doing exercizes in futility. no
one (the mass populace) is listening or if they are
they are not acting. for that matter why should they?
no one will join their cause anyway because ppl are to
worried about their own sets of issues.

gr3g

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'every government is a dictatorship. every leader, a tyrant.'   -anonymous 


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