Chomsky nails it, Tracy doesn't

[Michael F]

Please, excuse the typing miscue

"Your politics consists in changes of heart".

MIke

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Michael F <mff8785 at gmail.com> wrote:
> the Chinese?  Very interesting.
>
> A quote from one my favorite essays by Frenchman Paul Valery.  In this
> essay he discusses a conversation he once had with a Chinese scholar.
> The Chineese scholar lectures him:
>
> "In your land, power can do nothing.  Your politics consists in
> changes of hear; it leads to general revolution, and then to reaction
> against revolution, which is another revolution.  Your leaders do not
> lead, your free men are forced to labor, you are afraid of your
> slaves, your great men kiss the feet of the crowd, worship children,
> and depend on everybody.  You are at the mercy of all the ferocities
> of wealth and public opinion.  By now glance with your mind at the
> subtlest of your erros."
>
> Paul Valery "History and Politics(373)" 1953.
>
> I see this presented in the fictions of Pynchon.
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 5:23 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe Obama should hand the mess off to the
>>> Chinese. Let them take a crack at it. I read they have plenty of
>>> Chomsky-types in China's prisons.
>>
>> The Chinese could free them and make a plan to make Peace in the ME.
>>
>