Ah, Jean-François Revel. An amazingly clear-minded thinker, unlike those the faux-deep, Rive-Gauche Frenchy philosophers. I still remember reading his books and columns when I was a kid. Did much to frame my view of things for life.
"The totalitarian phenomenon," Revel observed years ago, "is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or—much more mysteriously—to submit to it."
Yes! Pepe definitely belongs to the latter set. The perfect exemplar, if there ever was one.
"was instantly greeted with fury by much of the French intelligentsia, which refused to accept that its own eyes-wide-shut apologetics for the likes of Mao, Mengistu, Stalin and Pol Pot were no less a form of complicity in mass murder than Holocaust denial.
Nor could this same intelligentsia acknowledge that the collapse of communism was the supreme vindication for Cold War anticommunists such as Revel,"
Ah, Pepe fled while the fleeing was good, before he'd have to fess up to responsibility for the shit he professed. Now we have only hauntings like this to give sick accurate substance to his ghost.
If there is any clearer sign that you might want to take some time to reflect, to sit down and look at yourself in the mirror, and ask youself if you really are doing the right thing, and if you really are moving in the right direction, it would be after realizing that some of the most hatefilled people in our country are applauding you.
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Command and control: the pinko wet dream.
Ah, Jean-François Revel. An amazingly clear-minded thinker, unlike those the faux-deep, Rive-Gauche Frenchy philosophers. I still remember reading his books and columns when I was a kid. Did much to frame my view of things for life.
"The totalitarian phenomenon," Revel observed years ago, "is not to be understood without making an allowance for the thesis that some important part of every society consists of people who actively want tyranny: either to exercise it themselves or—much more mysteriously—to submit to it."
Yes! Pepe definitely belongs to the latter set. The perfect exemplar, if there ever was one.
"was instantly greeted with fury by much of the French intelligentsia, which refused to accept that its own eyes-wide-shut apologetics for the likes of Mao, Mengistu, Stalin and Pol Pot were no less a form of complicity in mass murder than Holocaust denial.
Nor could this same intelligentsia acknowledge that the collapse of communism was the supreme vindication for Cold War anticommunists such as Revel,"
Ah, Pepe fled while the fleeing was good, before he'd have to fess up to responsibility for the shit he professed. Now we have only hauntings like this to give sick accurate substance to his ghost.
Most of the good guys are dead, and on Planet Pepe they ululate
but but but obama's a neocon now
??
See? He told the Nobel peaceniks that W was right.
More.
SaquaroSue
If there is any clearer sign that you might want to take some time to reflect, to sit down and look at yourself in the mirror, and ask youself if you really are doing the right thing, and if you really are moving in the right direction, it would be after realizing that some of the most hatefilled people in our country are applauding you.
It isn't too late, Mr. President.
Pepean logic.
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