Sarah Barmak (from where?) wrote:
>
>I fail to see what this has to do with the discussion...Are you saying all
>current discussions of film and philosophy, which I was quite enjoying,
>should be killed off in favour of some kind of social activism?
>
>Say, isn't there some part of The Republic where all the children born
>without the sanction of the guardians are left to die from exposure? That
>kind of socio-politico-economic disregard?
>
>Give me a break.
End Sarah.
I think it is a fairly safe bet to say more children die everyday in the 4/5ths of the world which lacks the wealth and privilege to sit about nattering in the manner
"The Brad Pitt character is everything the Ed Norton character wants to be.
Most importantly the Pitt character is no longer bound by the constraints of society. The teaching he gives others is a kind of overcoming which teaches....... blah blah blah...... ..(basically Zarathustra thematically) allows the apes to become human. It then waits until the moment when humans have evolved enough (socially and genetically) to reach the stars. Then the transformation can continue. etc etc"
than likely died in the whole of Greek history from being set out to die from exposure (and there are some reasonable socio-political arguments for setting children and old people - as american indian and some other cultures did - to die from exposure, not that any of them would pass muster in the hypocritical PC world of todays western academy which fails to note its complicity in the daily death toll outside the ivory tower.
I am so sorry to disrupte your fun. I suppose you were upset on Sept 11 when some people reminded you of the rest of the world while you were having fun discoursing on whatever it was....
I suggest, again if you wish :
http://www.gplex.com/jonjost/speech.html
Meantime can someone tell me how to unsub, please.
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