The question is......in view of Camus' anti-totalitarian, anti-Nazi, anti-Communist views, and despite his brilliant mind and writing talent, would he even be considered for the Nobel today?
Leni
“The question is......in view of Camus’ anti-totalitarian, anti-Nazi, anti-Communist views, and despite his brilliant mind and writing talent, would he even be considered for the Nobel today?”
No.
Too sadly true... I pray every day that Americans will awaken and realize that we are on the threshold of an historic tyranny here.
I encourage FReepers to study Stalin [not Lenin] to see how a narcissistic ego maniac took control of a closed society and perpetrated one of the worst cases of tyranny in human history.
There are countless fools who would support such a tyranny in this country, and some of them are not just useful idiots [Lenin]. I do not presume to equate Ob@ma with Stalin, or think he would purge his enemies with death, but there are some chilling parallels emotionally.
Also, the current Democrap Party mirrors the Stalinist 'cult of personality'... The Party must be right at all times - even at the expense of the country.
In fact, it is apparent that the American Marxist crowd has infiltrated most of our societal and security organs: education, medicine, food, government, AARP - and YES: the Republican Party! I do not understand why Rush Limbaugh cannot see that the Republican Party has become George Orwell's necessary opposition party... No hope in stopping tyranny lies in the Republican Party at the present.
Rush seems to think - as so many American do - that politics is a football game, and the important thing is that our side scores the most points.
The answer to tyranny was revealed in Egypt recently when 33 million people took to the streets. Even Stalin could not have stood up to such a popular expression. With 50%+ Americans feeding from the govt teat it seems unlikely that anything will change on the road to tyranny.
I am beginning to believe that history will judge this generation of Americans as the stupidest population of all times: we had the greatest gift that history could bestow [and became a light on the hill] and we have tread it underfoot and spit upon it!