[lit-ideas] Re: Amis Antithesis
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 18:14:57 -0700
And this one too, sent out without comment????? What is it? A nervous
twitch? Hitting the reply/send instead of "delete"? One too many Jack
Daniels? Banging the keyboard in frustration and accidentally sending these
uncommented upon messages to Lit-Ideas?
Lawrence
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Amis Antithesis
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From: Lawrence <mailto:lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Helm
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Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Amis Antithesis
Well, Simon, I read per your request this article by the young Indian
novelist Pankaj Mishra, but I suspect I wasn't as impressed as you were.
The thrust of his article is to blame the West for causing the Islamic
militantism that is plaguing it at present. He invokes that Leftist Holy of
Holies, the Vietnam war, in the way the Leftist love, i.e., that this is
the ultimate definition of Western war. So here the U.S. is doing it again.
When will it ever learn? He is scathing against Amis supposed ignorance
about the true nature of the Muslims who are engaged in Militantism, but
perhaps because of his journeying back and forth between London and India he
hasn't had time to delve into their ideological beliefs. They don't seem to
be self-motivated. They have no volition of their own. They are merely
reacting, Vietnam-wise, against the corrupt, greedy, imperial, evil USA and
its poodle, Britain.
Pretty silly Simon -- in keeping with what James Bowman would call the
"Infantile Left." [IMHO]
Lawrence
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On Behalf Of Simon Ward
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 2:57 PM
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Subject: [lit-ideas] Amis Antithesis
Following Amis' essay (link provided in a previous post), this week Pankaj
Mishra provides a counterthrust. And I can confidently say that this won't
appeal much to Lawrence and Eric, but that doesn't mean to say they
shouldn't read it.
Extract:
"It is as if the rage, fear and contempt that have overwhelmed many people
in the non-Western world have also overwhelmed some of the brightest people
in the West, distorting their vision to the point where some extraordinarily
crude fantasies - insulting Islam into a Reformation, boosting an American
Empire, bombing entire societies into democracy - appear to them as
practical solutions to the problems of living in an overcrowded world with
people who are not and, perhaps, do not wish to be like them."
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0
,,1874132,00.html#article_continue
Simon
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