[lit-ideas] Re: Chantal Delsol on the European condition
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:03:49 -0800
“Lacking any sense of purpose, Delsol observes, and fearful of taking a
stand – about anything, even the essentials of self-preservation –
Europeans instead enshroud themselves in technological and physical
comfort, leading mediocre lives, avoiding risk at all cost, and mouthing
vapid, unexamined clichés.
I hadn't realized just how bad things are. Surely they can find some
exciting, well-researched, fully documented ones—?
It takes a particular form of genius to characterize clichés by means of
clichés. When I find boiler plate language like this in something meant
to inform, I think of George Orwell and move on.
Robert Paul
Reed College
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