Hello old p-list, my refuge in times of trouble

[David Morris]

--- Otto <ottosell at yahoo.de> wrote:
> I respectfully disagree to your characterisation, David, that the list has
changed that much, at least not in the last four years. You cannot expect that
a literary mailing list like this is silent about political things one week
before the Third World War (maybe) is knocking at the door.

No, I don't expect silence about current affairs.  Discussion is fine, even if
not about Pynchon.  But scoop doesn't discuss anything here.  He SPAMS.
 
> "But America was certainly hated all around the world long before this coup
d'etat. And we weren't hated, as George W. Bush would have it, because of our
liberty and justice for all. We are hated because our corporations have been
the principal deliverers and imposers of new technologies and economic schemes
that have wrecked the self-respect, the cultures of men, women and children in
so many other societies."

Vonnegut is full of shit.  America is hated primarily because of its
superiority of power.  THAT is what wrecks the self-respect of third-world
countries dominated by theologies which tell them that THEY should be the
rulers of the earth

David Morris

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