Letters to the Editor
Stellaa
Published Letters: 186 Editor's Choice: 14
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Reality check!!
[Read the article: "Hillary equals France"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In France and in America there is a set of people that chooses to demonize the other nation. Yet, as some others have pointed out, France and America have lots in common. Unlike the Germans, the French have glummed on to the box stores, to McDonalds, to technology and sorry to say, maybe not for public viewing but I have seen many a fat French Pierre six packs. Just go out of Paris and my god, even red necks.
Yes, the ideas for the American revolution come from the French Enlightenment thinkers, even though their revolution took place after, it was all about the ideas. Look at how much time the founding fathers spent in France, and just check out who bought the US debt to fund the Revolution: The French.
Just as there are knee jerk anti Frenchies in America, there is a plethora of "anti Americanization" French. The truth is that we are all dupes of the global markets and corporations. As they gorge themselves, we sit around and quibble over old and dead cultural differences--when we should be coming together to face the major challenge: How do you retain your freedoms, the standard of living, the social safety net, the public infrastracture in a time where capitalism/global markets, make the decisions. A time when nation states are becomig irrelevant. How do you retain this, oh first world nations, when you have to share the pie with the rest of the world, and your corporations have no national identity anymore.
Sorry Bill, but just go to Europe and it's not just Bush they hate, they hate everything American. It has reached irrational levels. Of course Bush put a big bull's eye right on our foreheads. America has become for many Europeans a code word for all the damage caused by global markets and global culture. Actually, I find the anti American sentiment rather shrill, facile and moronic .
I split my time between the US and Europe. It's remarkable how everything bad in their nations is blamed on America, when their capitalists are just as guilty as ours. This kind of destraction, keeps people from seeing who the real culprits are. My comment to them is why keep blaming Coca Cola and McDonalds alone when Red Bull is from sweet little Austria, and Ikea and H&M are from socialist Sweden.
PS, drive around France and every few hundreds of miles you see a Nuclear Power plant, are we willing to be independent by using Nuclear Power? So lets stop demonizing and idealizing each other and lets get real, we the first world countries are facing a challenge: How do we keep our middle classes? How do we keep our life styles? How do we go into the future? Guess what, they don't have the leaders that can figure it out and neither do we. All politicians pander to get votes while the global markets drain the nations.
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Unclear on the concept!!
[Read the article: Should I tell my daughter about her mother's two abortions?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's see, the abortion struggle was about women having the choice to make decisions about their body. Now this Dad wants to negate the woman's right to tell or not tell. Pure vindictiveness.
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Aristotle, Poetics, Tragedy and the Sopranos.
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why the Sopranos is a mega Greek Tragedy..>From Wikipedia.
I am connvinced this is unfolding into a classic Greek tragedy, where fate (modern day genes, Tony and Melfi moment) is being played out. Will the cursed fate stop with Tony? Will AJ follow? Kill himself ( which is the same as following) or get away? Tony's ultimate pain will be in whatever happens to AJ. Tony and Christopher are realizing that the "family bonds" that kept them loyal are rather weak, there is nothing to believe in anymore. Tony will get his vengeance and get his heroic death, cause he must die or we do not get our catharsis. They all have to suffer.
By the way, someone said Carmella was an innocent, I think Carmella is just as guilty, she loved the life.
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OOPs....
[Read the article: "Sopranos" wrap-up: "Is this all there is?"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is the definition of tragedy:
The philosopher Aristotle theorized in his work The Poetics that tragedy results in a catharsis (emotional cleansing) of healing for the audience through their experience of these emotions in response to the suffering of the characters in the drama. He considers it superior when a character passes from good fortune to bad rather than the reverse; at the time, the term "tragedy" was not yet fixed solely on stories with unhappy endings.
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Make no mistake
[Read the article: Should I stay in my marriage?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]If you choose to stay you will blame the children. If you choose divorce you will blame yourself and everytime they sob or sneeze you will be sure it was your fault .
Either way it will be a muddle. So figure out how to live with a muddle, cause that is life. There are no optimal solutions, just ones that offer less pain and suffering.
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Making amends
[Read the article: God grief]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Is Hitchens tried to mending fences with the left? Did the good old boys not take him into the country club?