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Re: Václav & Me (4.00 / 8)

To say that "the supporters of capitalism demand that they are free to dump their waste on their neighbours lawns without consequence" has the beauty of communist propaganda I had a chance to "enjoy" during the first 48 years of my life.

And the tone and tenor of mr. Klaus' "argument", it's dismissiveness and indifference to scientific fact (or the notion that he, personally gets to judge what counts as evidence and what doesn't) has the beauty and arrogance of a cornered Stalinist commissar. The tune changes but the act remains the same, eh?

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 08:38:40 PM EST

Re: Václav &amp; Me (4.00 / 6)

Right. If there's a reminder of blind Stalinism in this exchange, it's coming from Klaus.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jun 22nd, 2007 at 01:39:24 AM EST
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Re: Václav &amp;amp; Me (4.00 / 10)

Yes, global warming denial reminds me of Soviet scientific orthodoxy not "accepting" quantum mechanics because it was "ideologically unsound". When it comes from a head of state, it's scary. A neoliberal Lysenkoism of sorts.

Anyway I think that the freemarketeers' economism (and subjection of the empirical to the ideological) is a mirror image of "orthodox" Soviet economism and ideolepsy. Not to mention that the freemarketeers are useful in legitimizing our ruling elites in a similar way that Soviet econnomists were useful for their own bosses.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom - William Blake

by talos (mihalis at gmail dot com) on Fri Jun 22nd, 2007 at 02:09:11 AM EST
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Re: Václav &amp; Me (4.00 / 3)

I'm reminded of a scene in the film Citizen X, about the Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo. Faced with mounting reports of a serial killer on his turf, a police general declares that serial killers are an "epiphenomenon of western capitalist society" (or something like that) which cannot exist in the Soviet Union, therefore there is no need to investigate.

by Gag Halfrunt on Fri Jun 22nd, 2007 at 01:00:50 PM EST
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Re: Václav Me (4.00 / 4)

By the way, part of that film (which I didn't dare to watch -- I knew from earlier how bestial the actual murderer was) was shot in the basement of what was then my university building.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Jun 22nd, 2007 at 01:20:24 PM EST
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Re: Václav Me (4.00 / 2)

If you did watch the film, you'd probably be distracted by the many Hungarian trains that appear in it...

(The cops talk about Chikatilo riding the elektrichkas in search of victims, but we mostly see locomotives hauling long-distance passenger cars.)

by Gag Halfrunt on Sat Jun 23rd, 2007 at 07:01:19 AM EST
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