Posted on 07/18/2005 9:57:30 PM PDT by Eurotwit
My wife and daughter were up at midnight to get this new one and the last one, in costume yet. Its a party, nearly all kids, not adults.
Lily: How much did this ship cost?
Picard: The economics of the 24th century are a little different. You see, money no longer exists.
Lily: No money? You mean you don't get paid?
Picard: The aquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our existance. We seek to better ourselves.
Star Trek is pure Marxism.
So what's the poor schmoe who grew up in a dysfunctional family supposed to do with this "inner well of familial emotions"? Become a sociopath?
"Actually that would be Mr Darcy. Lizzie's problem is prejudice."
How did I know you would be wrong about that? Lucky guess, or just picking up on a pattern?
"In Jane Austen's novel Pride and Prejudice, the issue of pride is a central one. Both Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are disliked at separate points for their pride--Darcy is described towards the beginning as the "proudest, most disagreeable man in the world (p.7)." At one point Miss Bingley says to Darcy, about Elizabeth, to "endeavor to check that little something, bordering on conceit and impertinence, which your lady possesses." She is referred to as having an "abomidable sort of conceited independance" (p.26); her manners are described by the others as "very bad indeed, a mixture of pride and impertinence"
I think this is the best article yet on the subject, and I think it lamentable that pride or lack of education seems to prevent some from giving it fair consideration.
It's interesting that everyone reacts by attacking Spengler.
"My wife and daughter were up at midnight to get this new one and the last one, in costume yet. Its a party, nearly all kids, not adults."
Kind of reminds me of the furor over Rocky Horror Picture Show.
And, it is fantasy. Anyhow the KIDS ARE READING. GET OVER IT.
Yeah, the guy who's been dead since 1934 or so...
"nom de plume" -- Google it.
Oh, so this pretentious, fatuous and incompetent writer was asking to be compared to the pretentious, fatuous and incompetent philosopher... now I get it. But wait, didn't I do that already?
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
"But wait, didn't I do that already?"
Not by a parsec.
Decline of the West? Is he talking about Hawaii or Japan?
One can say the same about the Old Testament.
From one point of view, a major problem is that the Harry Potter rage promises what can't be delivered to his audience. Harry's got the magic powers and can bring about "good" things with them. Well, okay, we hear you Harry. But his audience, they can't do boo; they can only lose themselves in games of pretend. Like when the Lord challenged the sorcerers to "do something good or evil."
What, you never read books about King Arthur, when you were a kid? It's the same kind of story as Harry Potter is, as are many beloved fairy tales.
Well one of the themes is how pride and prejudice may be mistaken for the other by casual observers.
And you are quoting not the views of the author, but those of her characters, which is not the same thing.
In particular, you citing as authoriry Miss Bingley, who is not presented by Austen as the most astute of observers, is exceedingly riaky.
Not everyone thinks that Tolkien is all that great/readable.
But only if one wants to looks stupid.
[I think this is the best article yet on the subject, and I think it lamentable that pride or lack of education seems to prevent some from giving it fair consideration.]
[It's interesting that everyone reacts by attacking Spengler.]
The central theme of this article by Spengler is the decline of our civilization as evidenced by the narcissistic characters in the fiction we read. This topic has been flogged to death for as long as there has been civilization to discuss it, but usually not in such a tiresome and ponderous manner.
Such snobbishness invites criticism in return, and in this instance the criticism is deserved.
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