tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post7194981662158923343..comments2023-11-02T03:03:51.375-07:00Comments on Now and Rome: Carl SchmittIkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-64989793278076110812009-06-01T08:30:37.847-07:002009-06-01T08:30:37.847-07:00So probably the First World War proves his point l...<I>So probably the First World War proves his point la la.</I>*ponders* Ah! Crimean War. <br /><br />"The mammoth lady" an excellent name and so she shall be forever. Yes, that was a very revealing statement. I read some interesting information about the newsgroup where it all happened, which sounded a very nasty place where it became impossible for Right Thinking Folk to raise issues like this. <br /><br />Will pop <I>Searoad</I> in the post. The whole book is terrific, 'Hernes' in particular (her Virginia Woolf homage). <br /><br />UKLG ponders the ethics of the fantasy of eradicating the current population of the west coast of America in order to make way for her utopia in <I>Always Coming Home</I>. As ever anticipating us.Una McCormackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08946949711109912505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-30515060972089204792009-06-01T06:15:05.127-07:002009-06-01T06:15:05.127-07:00The Eastern Front being of course a byword for civ...<I>The Eastern Front being of course a byword for civilized human interaction.</I>To be fair to Schmitt (curses curses wot am I saing), he thinks it all started to go wrong around 1890, when Europe stopped being the centre of the earth and people started believing in 'humanity'. So probably the First World War proves his point la la. <br /><br /><I>we-in-the-West have not yet really had that unrepeatable historical event, discovering a new world</I>Yes! Yes! <I>Yes</I>! MammothFail and also Patrick Ness! (Did you see, someone linked to a post by the mammoth lady [whose name I forget] on an archived email list, where she said that the Native Americans had 'prepared the land for human occupation'? WORDS FAIL ME.)<br /><br />I have not read <I>Searoad</I> and apparently I must so YESPLEASE. (And then we will owe you a parcel of things.)Ikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-69904779704780502092009-06-01T02:51:25.047-07:002009-06-01T02:51:25.047-07:00it 'humanized' war in EuropeThe Eastern Front bein...<I>it 'humanized' war in Europe</I>The Eastern Front being of course a byword for civilized human interaction. <br /><br /><I>whether humankind should TAKE TO THE STARS</I>That quotation is fascinating, hideously so. Because of course we-in-the-West have not yet really had that unrepeatable historical event, discovering a new world. We only <I>imagined</I> that we had and could make that fantasy real (and continue to play with it unthinkingly: see MammothFail). <br /><br />Oh, and have you read Le Guin's <I>Searoad</I>? Because the opening paragraph of the longest story in it ('Hernes') <I>deprogrammes</I> this kind of thinking in thirteen - count them: THIRTEEN - lines of text. (Can supply copy at need.)Una McCormackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08946949711109912505noreply@blogger.com