[lit-ideas] Re: Getting Off
- From: "Steven G. Cameron" <stevecam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 08:33:02 -0400
**Good to hear your leg is better. Hope you enjoy your Spring walks --
looking forward to your return to our discussions.
TC,
/Steve Cameron, NJ
Omar Kusturica wrote:
> The atmosphere on this list has not been very pleasant
> of late. It was objected by some to my being 'snappish
> and condescending.' There may be some justification
> for such complaints, though I suspect that some of my
> utterances get interpreted as snappish when they are
> not meant to be so. (I come from Montenegro, an area
> in the former Yugoslavia whose people are known for
> simple and direct expression, and I've never been very
> good at niceties.) On the other hand, nobody seems to
> object when accusations of anti-Semitism, paranoia,
> fundamentalism, Nazism, and the like are hurled at me
> for expressing views that are, frankly, considered
> fairly standard almost anywhere outside the United
> States. I wonder if it occurred to anyone here that
> such attacks might influence my subsequent reactions.
>
> Another thing is, I suspect that I am spending more
> time and energy than most people here in arguing my
> positions, looking for evidence, providing relevant
> information etc. This has been largely ignored, while
> many others have been freely engaging in
> unsubstantiated assertions, false factual claims,
> sloppy generalizations etc. When I tried to object to
> this, to me unsatisfactory state of affairs, offence
> has been taken in various quarters.
>
> It may be that, because I have been posting a lot
> recently, I have come to be taken for granted. I don't
> like that. Now, it is the Labour Day holiday here in
> China, my leg has gotten well enough that I can walk
> on it, and presumably there is still some spring left.
> I think that I will try to get off the list for a
> while. See you in a few weeks, or maybe months.
> (Though to hope that it is going to be months is
> probably too optimistic, on both sides.)
>
> Omar Kusturica
>
> P.S. Best wishes to Mike Geary
>
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