Most of the world thinks Bush sucks
anonymous
February 14 2007, 18:45:33 UTC
Bush and the Republicans were not protecting us on 9-11, and we aren't a lot safer now. We may be more afraid due to george bush, but are we safer? Being fearful does not necessarily make one safer. Fear can cause people to hide and cower. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn't the country with the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn't that likely to be the most hated country? Are we safer today than we were before? We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!
I am a blind reader of Saramago. Your one source is right: Saramago seems to use blindness as a topos without being concerned by the fact that real blindness exist in the world. As such his novel is a theoretical construction of blindness. Compare what would happen if he used being black as a topos in this way, of delivered a theoretical construction of a society that was ruled by women
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Re: blindnessrwillmsenDecember 14 2008, 10:40:10 UTC
Hi, thanks for your thoughts, I wrote those comments in the piece in a pretty glib frame of mind and I hadn't stopped to consider particularly deeply how readers of the book might read it as a book about the horrors of blindness rather than a book about the horrors of the world in which we live. I came across a remark the other day regarding our notion, embedded in our language and hence our thinking, of seeing as our primary mode of experiencing and understanding the world, by which I mean the privileging of the category of vision as paramount, whereas actually seeing is not even our most fundamental nor, in the words of this particular commentator, our most reliable sense. I suppose this must certainly blunt Saramago's argument, at least in the view of someone who experiences the world differently, ie. it must have less force and be a lot less convincing as a way of addressing reality. I guess that in this sense it is merely a topos or indeed a trope. I wonder if the writer himself thought about how visually impaired people might
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the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn't that likely to be the most hated country?
Are we safer today than we were before?
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!
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