Chomsky nails it, Tracy doesn't

[alice wellintown]

Of course, China is taking a crack at Africa. They have two men with
Nobel Prizes fro Peace. Both deserve it. Not that Obama does not, but
give this other two a crack at ME Peace. George J. Mitchell could not
get it done. Obama won't. The US hasn't the money to do much there
now. The Chinese are flush. It would be better if China would pull
back even further on its US investments. Let them put some money up in
the ME. Maybe they should spill some blood there too. Then, let them
lecture the West.



http://nonsite.org/issue-1/paul-valery-from-author-to-audience

On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:39 PM, 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.
>>
>