Some men think it's only the pretty girls.
No, see that is not what they think, it is what they want. A little Nietzschian ressentiment.
I am glad she kept her notes from her Gender Studies 101 class. I am sorry to see it as yet another gender based FPP.
I love the topic of Western individualism versus collectivism. I actually brought this point up in regards to suicide bombing, in the Lebanon thread I believe.
I don't think the honor killing should be indicative of collectivism, as I don't believe sophism is representative of individualism. I think either system is equally reprehensible brought to it's extreme, and a happy future for mankind is found in the medium between the two (This would be Marx's utopia).
I think as an issue in itself honor killing is minor. 4-5000 people dieing a year is small potatoes compared to the number of other atrocities committed in the name of any ideology, capitalism kills waaaaayyyyy more people.
I think one issue I feel the writer fails to extrapolate the idea is how honor does not stop at the family, but extends to town--->district--->state--->Islam. Which is one of the reasons people all over the Middle East feel Palestine is an issue. I cannot emphasize enough, if that issue is resolved equitably at the hands of America, public opinion in those countries will go through a drastic change.
If anyone is interested in more "clash of civilizations" reading, I would suggest Guests of the Sheik. It is a weekend read but very educational. I may still have it somewhere in my collection. I would be willing to mail it to someone, but the cost of postage is probably comparable to the price of the book itself.
I am assuming you mean "The Seven Samurai" and I think that is an oversimplification of that particular work, and fails to realize the timelessness of all his pieces. I am sorry I am a huge Kurosawa fan (own many of his DVDs and read just a "few" of books on his directing), and the reason he is one of the greatest directors of all time (if not the greatest, which I think he is), is because his works are timeless.
I have to also disagree on the Wizard of Oz. I think it is a bizarre fun movie for any generation, regardless of the time it was made. I still think the flying monkeys are some of the creepiest things I have seen on the big screen.
You don't see many movies successfully create such fantastic worlds like that found in OZ. I think some directors are better than others, like Terry Gilliam and Jean Jeunet. Jim Henson did an amazing job.
For Jim:
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This happens with every war. Remember the Bonus Army. This is pretty much par for the course in our country.
I agree with jb completely about taking the Nazi's out of the equation by describing them as different than the rest of humanity. I have never read Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt but I have read so many books referencing it I have a general idea of it's impact (come to think of it I guess I need to read it).
Arendt suggested that this most strikingly discredits the idea that the Nazi criminals were manifestly psychopathic and different from common people.
Some current philosophers (hate to bring up Zizek againg, but I am gonna) have argued that the topic of what really happened in Germany with the Nazi's needs to be addressed on a human level. Zizek argues that in regards to this thinking their is a "Denkverbot," or thinking is forbidden on the subject. To address the issues of what happened in Nazi Germany is to address something that is very present in all of us, and Western society does not want to face that. So Nazi's are the evil and that is that, end of discussion, which is not a manner in which academia or anyone should perceive human history.
I am awed by these hugely bemuscled behemoths of the leonine world.
When I first started reading that sentence I thought it was going to describe Jeremy Irons.
TP I was just talking to my friend about that genre of film. I have just seen Running With Scissors, and that film began like The Royal Tenenbaums or Life Aquatic, but ended completely different. I won't spoil the movie since it is new, but I enjoyed it very much.
Some men think it's only the pretty girls. No, see that is not what they think, it is what they want. A little Nietzschian ressentiment. I am glad she kept her notes from her Gender Studies 101 class. I am sorry to see it as yet another gender based FPP.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Maury Povich helps a guest overcome her fear of pickles."
Its not the pickles, its the octopuses camouflaged as pickles she is afraid of.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Soldiers Say Army Ignores, Punishes Mental Anguish."
Scientists explore the frightening world of psychopaths
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Honor and Modernity."
I love the topic of Western individualism versus collectivism. I actually brought this point up in regards to suicide bombing, in the Lebanon thread I believe. I don't think the honor killing should be indicative of collectivism, as I don't believe sophism is representative of individualism. I think either system is equally reprehensible brought to it's extreme, and a happy future for mankind is found in the medium between the two (This would be Marx's utopia). I think as an issue in itself honor killing is minor. 4-5000 people dieing a year is small potatoes compared to the number of other atrocities committed in the name of any ideology, capitalism kills waaaaayyyyy more people. I think one issue I feel the writer fails to extrapolate the idea is how honor does not stop at the family, but extends to town--->district--->state--->Islam. Which is one of the reasons people all over the Middle East feel Palestine is an issue. I cannot emphasize enough, if that issue is resolved equitably at the hands of America, public opinion in those countries will go through a drastic change. If anyone is interested in more "clash of civilizations" reading, I would suggest Guests of the Sheik. It is a weekend read but very educational. I may still have it somewhere in my collection. I would be willing to mail it to someone, but the cost of postage is probably comparable to the price of the book itself.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Maury Povich helps a guest overcome her fear of pickles."
Can't help me overcome my fear of iFilm. When will people learn, simpler is better.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Top 20 Overrated Movies?"
i think we've all got the measure of your wit by about now. Wow! I guess that goes part and parcel with Joyce.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
I read that book. I think it was the closest I have come to being in a coma without actually being in a coma.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
**pees on thread**
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Thank God our perception of beauty is distorted."
sly_polyglot has posted 1
6links and 124comments on MonkeyFilter since April 27, 2004. I call shenanigans. Baninate.posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Top 20 Overrated Movies?"
the kind of all-enveloping comforting warmth you only otherwise find as a kid who's peed the bed, before it turned cold. ......
What!?!?......posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Watch out fellow monkeys; the Superlions are here!"
So do you think the observers should actually step in and take this female out of the equation?
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Top 20 Overrated Movies?"
I am assuming you mean "The Seven Samurai" and I think that is an oversimplification of that particular work, and fails to realize the timelessness of all his pieces. I am sorry I am a huge Kurosawa fan (own many of his DVDs and read just a "few" of books on his directing), and the reason he is one of the greatest directors of all time (if not the greatest, which I think he is), is because his works are timeless. I have to also disagree on the Wizard of Oz. I think it is a bizarre fun movie for any generation, regardless of the time it was made. I still think the flying monkeys are some of the creepiest things I have seen on the big screen. You don't see many movies successfully create such fantastic worlds like that found in OZ. I think some directors are better than others, like Terry Gilliam and Jean Jeunet. Jim Henson did an amazing job. For Jim: .
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Watch out fellow monkeys; the Superlions are here!"
Other people's babies taste better than your own.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Firefox beta hits the "internet" shelves."
Firefox 3.0a1 Released
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Every click a coalition death in Iraq."
That clicking noise is haunting.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Soldiers Say Army Ignores, Punishes Mental Anguish."
I have a bad habit of typing their as there and vice versa.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
This happens with every war. Remember the Bonus Army. This is pretty much par for the course in our country. I agree with jb completely about taking the Nazi's out of the equation by describing them as different than the rest of humanity. I have never read Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt but I have read so many books referencing it I have a general idea of it's impact (come to think of it I guess I need to read it). Arendt suggested that this most strikingly discredits the idea that the Nazi criminals were manifestly psychopathic and different from common people. Some current philosophers (hate to bring up Zizek againg, but I am gonna) have argued that the topic of what really happened in Germany with the Nazi's needs to be addressed on a human level. Zizek argues that in regards to this thinking their is a "Denkverbot," or thinking is forbidden on the subject. To address the issues of what happened in Nazi Germany is to address something that is very present in all of us, and Western society does not want to face that. So Nazi's are the evil and that is that, end of discussion, which is not a manner in which academia or anyone should perceive human history.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Watch out fellow monkeys; the Superlions are here!"
I am awed by these hugely bemuscled behemoths of the leonine world. When I first started reading that sentence I thought it was going to describe Jeremy Irons.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Top 20 Overrated Movies?"
TP I was just talking to my friend about that genre of film. I have just seen Running With Scissors, and that film began like The Royal Tenenbaums or Life Aquatic, but ended completely different. I won't spoil the movie since it is new, but I enjoyed it very much.
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
In "Peter Boyle dead at 71."
CR I news-googled "Peter Boyle" and every article that I read mentioned that scene, if that is any consolation. .
posted by glamajamma 17 years ago
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