South Americanization of political culture- autogolpe

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COMMENT
RUMMYACHE
Issue of 2006-05-01
Posted 2006-04-24

"In the ongoing South Americanization of political culture north of the border—a drawn-out historical journey whose markers include fiscal recklessness, an accelerating wealth gap between the rich and the rest, corruption masked by populist rhetoric, a frank official embrace of the techniques of “dirty war,” and, by way of initiating the present era, a judicial autogolpe installing a dynastic presidente—"

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/a ... _hertzberg

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sudamericanizacion, balcanizacion, any other?

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The resurrection of FDR?

Or Hitler?

The times of The Weimar Republic?

The aftermath The Peloponnesian Wars?

Two hundred dollar oil?

What we really need is

Bread and Circuses

And cheap gas

The futures not mine to see

I just wish I was playing in the band

Sometimes I almost wish I was a woman

They are such optimists

When they have the choice

Thinking about pregnant women in Darfur.


"Meanwhile, nothing hurts and everything is beautiful here"
Vonnegut.

I like his fiction a lot. Sci Fi is so trashy.

Still thinking about that man from Argentina I worked with back in 65-66 and what made him a refugee. Maybe he was a Peronist?

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I remember others: africanizacion, libanizacion... sure there are more.
Your co/worker, s/t... I don't know, maybe he was a peronist, the party was proscrip in those times. After that until now (if he lived for that) he had a lot to be entertained with...

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about Vonnegut: I read an article last saturday in a magazine of the B.A. newspaper "Clarin". Title "Los custodios del caos" and it's from "A man without a country: a memoir of life in George Bush's America". He talks about the Mountain Sermon, about the PP, burnt books, deshumanization and social classes, napalm and Harvard, Hitler and christianism, etc. He is smiling in the photo, though.
I also read that he wrote a book called "Matadero 5", one of our first books of our so called "national literature" was a book called "Matadero" writen by Echeverria. It's a sort of literary testimony against Rosas.

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Firebombing of Dresden


In pictures

"If you like looking at these photos you're crazy and you need a doctor. But this is a matter of truth."


"Goebbels forbade these photos of our victims from the German papers," says Mr Friedrich. "In a way, we've obeyed his orders until this day."


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3211690.stm

My earliest memories are of World War Two. I can not tell you how much I hated Germans when I was growing up. It was Vonnegut's book that first made feel some compassion for them. Another turning point was a movie called Ship Of Fools, based on Katherine Porter's novel. A sympathetic portrait of a a German ship's doctor set on an ocean liner headed to Germany in 1939.


" The only proof you need for the existence of G d is music"

Kurt Vonnegut: 'A Man Without a Country'

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=4839818

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damn Goebbles, I hope he didn't leave his epitelio somewhere with dobermans and a jungle.

nice Vonnegut words, I'll read him someday.