[lit-ideas] Re: something or other failed
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:01:52 -0500 (GMT-05:00)
You're right. In an open society such as this the information is out there but
few want to be bothered learning it. Case in point, all the support for
invading Iraq. That's what did us in. Our power was useful in the threat of
it. Once we used it the magic was broken. It went from awesome to defeatable
and cost us a bundle in the process. We're more like swinging between apathy
and fits of paranoid aggression in a context of ignorance and wishful thinking.
It's interesting you compare us to Oblomov given the ultimate fate of the SU.
We will have done us in, even if, like with the fall of the SU, someone else
will take the credit, and even if we want someone else to be responsible for
our actions.
-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Jan 18, 2007 2:24 AM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] something or other failed
>
>If any fable fits our fickle condition, it's not Star Wars but
>_Oblomov_. Presciently, Ivan Goncharov fit the US response to the terror
>war into his little satire.
>
>
>We go shopping. We don't leave our bed. We are swindled by everyone
>around us. We have no concentration. We are full of national apathy.
>When the nukes hit, we'll call it Oblomovitis.
>
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