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Posted on 12/26/2008 3:42:15 PM PST by AJKauf
there was never a question in my mind that his Nobel Prize for Literature was deserved, although I cringed when he received it because I knew he would seize the opportunity to make ugly and propagandistic statements. Of course, I was right about that - you didn’t have to be Nostradamus. Pinter attacked the US government as if it were the modern avatar of the Third Reich. He used his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, in the words of the Washington Post, to denounce the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to call British prime minister Tony Blair “a deluded idiot.”
What we are facing here, I submit, is what we might call the Ezra Pound Perplex or, alternatively, the Leni Riefenstahl Dilemma? Forget the Nobel Prize, which has indeed become a racket, assuming it was ever anything else. Pinter’s death raises a more important question. What do we do with great artists whose political ideas are anathema to us? How do we regard their work?..
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A legend in his own mind, IOW, not worth a bucket of warm p-ss.
GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.
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“A LEFTIST winning the Nobel Prize? Wow!”
“Has a conservative ever won?”
A few
Rudyard Kipling for literature 1907.
Winston Churchill for literature in 1953.
Friedrich A. von Hayek for Economics 1974.
Milton Friedman for Economics 1976.
Hayek wrote this amusing essay “Why I am not a Conservative”
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/hayek.htm
He called himself a “liberal”, by which he meant laissez faire 19th century liberal. What he called socialist, we now call Liberal. And what Hayek calls “conservative” we call Bush!
So - another collectivist has assumed room temperature. Wonderful!
He was great as Sir Thomas Bertram in the movie “Mansfield Park.” A miserable, cruel, bullying, mean character. Perfect casting!
“Closely connected with this is the usual attitude of the conservative to democracy. I have made it clear earlier that I do not regard majority rule as an end but merely as a means, or perhaps even as the least evil of those forms of government from which we have to choose. But I believe that the conservatives deceive themselves when they blame the evils of our time on democracy. The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.[8] The powers which modern democracy possesses would be even more intolerable in the hands of some small elite.”
“Admittedly, it was only when power came into the hands of the majority that further limitations of the power of government was thought unnecessary. In this sense democracy and unlimited government are connected. But it is not democracy but unlimited government that is objectionable, and I do not see why the people should not learn to limit the scope of majority rule as well as that of any other form of government. At any rate, the advantages of democracy as a method of peaceful change and of political education seem to be so great compared with those of any other system that I can have no sympathy with the antidemocratic strain of conservatism. It is not who governs but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem.”
Hayek was a great thinker!
Adios Pinter! A rabid America-hating leftie whose plays and writings will be forgotten in ten years.
And that is the sum of my thoughts on Pinter, his Nobel, his politics, his life, and his death.
Heh heh heh...
Actually, it was a travesty. In the book, Sir Thomas a generous and kind man who simply has a tendency to be so formal and intimidating that it doesn't come across at first. That movie so bastardized the novel I was foaming at the mouth by the time it was over. I haven't seen such a rape of literature since Hollywood gave "The Scarlet Letter" a happy ending, and Susan Sarandon made "Little Women's" Marmee a swaggering feminist.
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/803/30/
Another finger-painter dead. Don’t know if I’ll remember this.
Probably not. Maybe I’ll write a note on the etch-a-sketch.
reg45 wrote:
Perhaps he is sharing his cell in hell with his buddy Saddam Hussein
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It would be better if the HELL for Pinter was being in a cell with Sadam victims.
Hot enough for you, Pinter?
As an “Art” Critic, Roger Simon has now been elevated to the ranks of those who think Andres Serrano's “Piss Christ” is meritorious art and those who proclaimed the Waffen SS dressed better than G.I. Joe.
I would not be surprised if Roger would praise the water colors of country churches by the young artist Adolf Hitler as” incredibly promising”.
When are we going to fight back?
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