On 04/02/11 22:53, Robert Naiman wrote: > It's funny. I write for different audiences. Yesterday I took a lot of > flak on Daily Kos for slamming Obama too hard. So this time I did the > opposite. There seems to be a huge universe of people who, as readers, > only want to know if you are pro-US or anti-US, pro-Obama or > anti-Obama. Then they will form their judgment.
It's funny you put it like this - do you have an opinion/position yourself, or do you just write what "the audience" likes? > So, to communicate with adherents of the one faith, you have to praise > one god. To communicate with adherents of the other faith, you have to > praise the other god. And to communicate with free souls you have to kill your idols, refrain from perpatuating oppressive myths (such as "democracy" in the context of US foreign policy) and other praises of the Almighty Dollar. > My objective here was to nail down the rapprochement with the Muslim > Brotherhood, which is a very positive development for the region, as I > argued in the part of the piece that you probably didn't read. Of course I read it and that is precisely what I respond to: You have revealed your faith in Euro-American democracy by stating that a transition into the Western consumer reality is a good thing (it might spread througout the region..) --- and repeating that it is a good thing that muslim representatives are ready to negotiate with world leaders and transition into "real democracy". That's faith! I have merely sober criticism to offer: I don't think there is anything great about that at all and it will only get the Egyptians to where we are: in need of real change. No hope of that of course, since mediators and collaborators of the democratic faith - and its opportunistic representatives - sit tightly on media time and space. -m _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
