VLVL II: "What is Fascism?" (fwd)
Joel Katz
mittelwerk at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 17 17:11:51 CST 2004
>From: Cyrus <cyrusgeo at netscape.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: VLVL II: "What is Fascism?" (fwd)
>Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 01:00:45 +0200
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>paul.mackin at verizon.net wrote:
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>>And woe betide any governmental jurisdiction to set the standards for
>>you the teacher or for the school.
>>
>
>That was my initial reaction too, but then I heard that the educational
>community asked the government to intervene because the situation had
>gotten out of hand.
>
>As for the abstract, it seems to rely on a groundless premise. No epoch in
>its right mind (if you will forgive the poetry of it all) would ever "pride
>itself on having defeated fascism, on being an epoch which is no longer
>fascist." Fascism is not dead, nor will it ever be, because it is inherent
>in human nature. One has to strive almost every day to suppress one's own
>fascist tendencies, even if it is on small, everyday matters.
>
>Cyrus
why supress? take it out yer woman. that's what they're for.
>
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