Friday, May 05, 2006

Still Whacked After a Day in Cambridge


Yeah, yeah, yeah, third Rome and all that. Whatever, dude.
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6 comments:

Tecumseh said...

C'mon, JJ, give the man a break. He paid his dues, above and beyond the call of duty. He can say pretty much whatever he wants now, in the twilight of his life.
I still admire and revere him, tremendously.

5/05/2006 9:17 AM
Mr roT said...

AI, this love of yours for this guy is a theoretical incarnation of "our SOB", I think. Not to go and try to ascribe motives to people's actions, but it seems to me that since he got his ass out of the USSR, Solzh has been singing the same tune. If drop some of the ornaments in that tune, the main idea is not freedom or democracy or rule of law or any of that.

The main bit of belief at bottom of it all is that Mother Russia has a destiny in this world to lead, at least spiritually. I am not an expert, but this may have come from Dostoyevsky (a far better writer).

I think he makes no more sense than Fomenko's chronologies. Somehow those bits of academic idiocy haven't made it to this blog.

5/05/2006 10:30 AM
Tecumseh said...

JJ, I basically agree with your analysis. Yet, yet, the sum of what AS did from the mid 1940s to the early 1970s so far outweighs whatever crackpot theories he may have come upon lately that I prefer to remember the former, and basically ignore the latter.

Toute proportion gardee, it's somewhat similar to my attitude towards Bill Buckley. OK, OK, he may have gone a bit wobbly in hiw twilight, so what -- you gotta remember a man for what he did in his prime, yes?

5/05/2006 10:53 AM
Arelcao Akleos said...

Well, I don't know, for example my burning passion for chic left bank nihilistic "existentialism with a beret" suffered a nasty shock when Sartre went Catholic shortly before bellying up. Why, the betrayal drove me into Reaganism!

5/05/2006 5:55 PM
Mr roT said...

Your beret was getting ratty is a better reason, AA. Look, Reagan won everyone with a brain including Eugene McCarthy because Jimmy Carter was the worst president the United States has ever had. Bar none.

5/06/2006 3:34 AM
Tecumseh said...

Not only that, but also the worst ex-president in history!

Jimmy Carter will go down in history as the first US ex-president ever to be awarded a Nobel Prize for the sole purpose of conveying an insult to his country from the Nobel committee.

Gunnar Berge, chairman of the five-member committee, told reporters that giving the Peace Prize to Carter "must also be seen as criticism of the line the current U.S. administration has taken on Iraq ... It's a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States."

5/07/2006 7:14 PM

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