JTK wrote: > No, see, I'm not the one who drew up a bunch of commie graphics, > thinking the whole time, "heheheee look at how kewl I am! I'm sticking > it to the Man! I don't even know what Communism is, but I do know these > graphics will sure raise a ruckus, uhuck, uhuck! Plus, they can't but > help sell AOL into China!"
No one thought anything like that, and you HAVE to realize this, or you're worse off than any of us think. > And I know they taught you in your Civics class[1] that the carcass > counts actually weigh in quite a bit heavier on the side of Stalin than > on Hitler. But paradoxically, when presented with neither choice, you > choose to stand up and be counted with Stalin. Umm, no. The artwork is Constructivist. There are no red flags with hammer-and-sickles. No portraits of Stalin or Lenin. No glories to the motherland. Besides, while Russia did have a staggering body count, they were our allies against Nazi Germany. > [1] Do they even teach you kids Civics anymore? Do the schools even > have classes anymore? Or is that what I'm running up against here, a > feral generation of filthy, uneducated teenagers? Well, I haven't been in high school for a number or years. But, I did indeed have civics classes. Adjusting to the new post-Cold-War world was rather interesting. > > the "symbolism" most see in Mozilla > > comes from within themselves, rather than anything overt in the graphics. > Well that's kinda the idea of "symbolism" now, ain't it? No, Symbolism is a representation, not inference. > > It has a constructivist feel, > Communist feel. Lifted directly off the side of Stalin's fighters for > Your sake! Constructivist Art predates the use of the style by any government. > > but the "communist" or "socialist" that some derive from > > it is inferred. > I din't "infer" that graphic onto the side of a Yak-3. So? Go into any kindergarten school room, and you'll see thousands of little stars around the room, on papers, even on the kids. Some gold, some blue, some white, some RED! Does that mean those kids are "commie" kids? > And I have yet to hear of people using Mozilla for any reason other than > curiosity or masochism. You also have yet to hear the truth, but not because no one has told you. -- jesus X [ Booze-fueled paragon of pointless cruelty and wanton sadism. ] email [ jesusx @ who.net ] web [ http://www.mozillanews.org ] tag [ The Universe: It's everywhere you want to be. ] warning [ "I hate cats. You never know if they're dead." - E. Schrodinger ]
