29-08-2012, 10:06 PM
Albert Doyle Wrote:Charles Drago Wrote:Mark Prior Wrote:Albert is right about that, Peter.
You and Albert are not getting it, Mark.
Gandhi's choices to wear homespun and to depict himself spinning it were deeply semiotic in nature, development, and delivery. They amounted to profound, multi-layered commentaries on a host of relevant issues.
Your too-cute-by-half, fact-challenged four-finger salute, it may be argued, is none of the above.
I think you protest too much against the obvious Charles and therefore inversely prove the effectiveness of the four finger salute.
Something is better than nothing.
And I think you're nuts.
What is "obvious"?
"Effectiveness" as what?
Would a poster showing, say, Priscilla Johnson McMillan being sodomized by Vince Bugliosi and captioned, "Sod the LNers!" be better than nothing?
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene