Re: VL-IV (15): Ché For Children, pages 325/327

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Funnily enough, the "Kay-mus" speech by Reagan I referred to yesterday
can be found in Finnish on the net. It's from May 1988 when he and
Gorbatchev met in Helsinki. If memory serves, he read it from paper,
not teleprompter.
http://finland.usembassy.gov/root/pdfs/135_142am8393.pdf

Quite disturbingly, like Paul, Bekah and Laura, Reagan also talks about
rebellion. My translation.

"Albert Camus once predicted that when revolutions staged in the name of
power or history change into murderous and restrictive mechanisms,
rebellion will arise in the name of tolerance and life."

I'm aware that Camus also had blind spots like the Algerian situation,
but in general I've always preferred Camus' views to the more
totalitarian aspirations of Sartre and his famille. So it does hurt
me when I see Reagan quote him.


Heikki






Funnily enough, the
"Kay-mus" speech by Reagan I referred to yesterday
can be found in Finnish on the net:
http://finland.usembassy.gov/root/pdfs/135_142am8393.pdf

Quite disturbingly, like Bekah and Laura he also talks about rebellion
Albert Camus ennusti aikoinaan, että kun vallan tai historian nimissä
tehdyt vallankumoukset
muuttuvat murhaaviksi ja rajoittaviksi mekanismeiksi, niin kapina nousee
suvaitsevaisuuden
ja elämän nimissä.



On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Bekah wrote:

> Rebel for the sake of rebellion is what I get from Camus.   Because
> it fights the existential nothingness.  Being happy is one of the
> ways to rebel.   :-)
>
> Bekah
>
>
> On Apr 8, 2009, at 11:29 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:
>
> > Thinking of Camus' Myth of Sisyphus, one could guess he'd say that
> > one must imagine rebels to be happy, regardless of whether their
> > rebellion achieves anything.
> >
> > Laura
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bekah <Bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net>
> >> Sent: Apr 8, 2009 9:42 AM
> >> To: Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> >> Subject: Re: VL-IV (15): Ché For Children, pages 325/327
> >>
> >> On Apr 8, 2009, at 6:18 AM, Paul Mackin wrote:
> >>
> >>> But rebel anyway!
> >>>
> >>> P
> >>
> >>
> >> And I think that's Camus.
> >>
> >> Bekah
> >>
> >
> >
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>