If one goes to
http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz1758411422e80.html
to take the quiz on famous quotes by the Irishy, one
finds that Shaw's name isn't one of the answers. I'd
bet it is Shaw though. Or maybe Freud, who said
America was a "mistake." But I'd disagree that America
is the only country that went from barbarism to
decadence without an intervening stage of
civilization; we've had all three going at once at
least since about 1870.
David Latane
"THAT HAM is kulchur, THAT ham is civilization" (Ezra
Pound on one of Harry Meachum of Richmond's Virginia
country ham offerings--qtd in The Pound Era 540).
--- Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I first read the statement, attributed to Shaw, when
> both Baudrillard
> and I were small children.
>
> At 06:57 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
> >or it could be jean baudrillard?
> >
> >
> >
> >I've seen this attributed to Shaw.
> >
> >At 06:02 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote:
> >>Well Roger I can quote this from memory: it was by
> a French comentator, not
> >>me!, and went along in that the USA is unique in
> world history in that it is
> >>a culture that has gone from primitivism to
> decadence without a phase of
> >>civilisation in between.
> >>
> >>They be his words not mine!
> >>
> >>
> >>Best (with a troll grin)
> >>
> >>Dave
>
David Latane
http://www.standmagazine.org (Stand Magazine, Leeds)
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