[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:27:04 -0000
So, past some homo-erotic mythologising (which incedentally sound extremely
Freudish if you get my meaning), you have no real reason for believing that
those on the left of this list might 'like' Saddam Hussein. And by projecting
this gun-toting image, an image which clearly belies the tree-hugging,
peace-loving creation that you also like to impose upon those on the left, do
you perhaps get a kick of some kind.
Of course, the irony is that Saddam was a creation not of the left, but of the
right. He was armed and financed to fight the Iranian Fundamentalists (with
chemical weapons no less), feted while the time was right, cheered on from the
sidelines in a scheme that seemed so much more productive than some Peanut
farmer's notion of force projection, until that is it all went belly up and he
who was once a gun-toting puppet suddenly became the vicious villain. And now
it's obvious that all along this was a hero of the left, and not a child of the
right at all.
Another example, we must suppose, of neo-con revisionism. Just like a
peace-loving Napoleon or a defence-minded third reich. Has nobody explained
that to re-write history you must first be the victor.
Simon Ward
Nobody Else
----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence Helm
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:04 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
Well yes, there's that, and the fact
He's enormously attractive to these . . .
He's no Tom Cruise, of course,
But Cruise is a wimp when it comes to
Oozing self-confidence the way
He did firing the AK into the air
Not caring where the bullet lands
Though each year police warn
Us it has to land some place
And unless you're dictator of the
Whole damned thing if someone
Looks up and gets a bullet in the eye
Someone's going to come looking
For you and it won't be him
Because they hanged him
And now there's no one
Exemplifying the hero Carlyle
Admired and Nietzsche lauded,
No one to tell this generation
Of spoiled brats, brats encouraged
To do and say whatever they liked
You can't do or say that here
While I am looking at you,
Don't you know? Discipline
That's what Simon . . .
He never had it and Saddam
Provided it running out his eyes
And down his sleeves
To hands that never doubted
And never paused and never
Came to the end of what
He knew until that evil empire
The USA not satisfied with taking
Away the USSR sent their
Technological but inhuman
Robotic tentacles over there
To touch his sacred soul.
Allahu Akhbar if you have
The sense to know it.
Sigmund Helmenfreud
-----Original Message-----
From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Eric Yost
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:38 PM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
>>So Sigmund, why do we all like Saddam so much?
I can't speak for Lawrence or for you guys, but ...
Today I received my diagnosis:
My anti-ego connects
to my will-to-live
by a type of elan vital
that uses rage and the blues
to express short-term desire
as products of the imagination
which heighten self-discipline
when my Vitamin-B level
drops to the point that
I have to dance all night.
As a result, seizing opportunities
triggers indecisive parti pris
or false exterioception
when a simple yes-or-no would do
or assertive foreknowledge
make relaxing an art.
In no uncertain terms I was told
either to try to worry more
or lapse into iconic
states that trigger
poetic indicants of narcissism
which can only be ameliorated
behaviorally--which is to say
not at all--in the grudging
awareness of undiagnosed others.
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