[quote=Blob]People will move the goalposts wherever they have to in order to rationalize that the contestant they're rooting for made the best movie.[/quote]
[size=11][color=darkblue]You're right about that--everybody has an opinion and a perspective that they'll defend to the death.
It's a cliche that if ten people view the same event, you'll get ten different versions of how it happened later.
IIf there's one good thing about these discussions, it's that it is extremely revealing about the wide range of opinion. I'm beginning to release my death grip on the idea that if someone doesn't get the same hilarious humor in that film (or worse, thinks [i]that [/i] piece of crap is funny), surely there is something terribly wrong with them.
It rocks my world to think that no two people are living in the same universe. You should be living in MY universe, dammit! [/color][/size]
Thursday, June 28, 2007
letter to an angry iraqi
salah,
i haven't read your posts before, so i don't know if your comments on this article are of a similar nature with what you have written before.
But it seems to me that the author of this blog and its contributors are in general in sympathy with your position - that the occupation of Iraq by US forces is illegal and immoral and causing great harm. So i am troubled by what seems to be your hostility toward those who would be your allies.
Although the political tide in the US has been turning, culturally there is still a great deal of pressure to be "patriotic," especially in the press, which still unfortunately is equated with "supporting the troops" and not questioning our Commander in Chief.
Mr Harrop's statement imo is a brave - yes brave -and all too rare action for peace and against war. He is showing how it is possible to distinguish support for "the troops" (as individual persons like his son) and dissent against the war. Somehow this is still very difficult to for the US public to grasp.
It's my wish that you can see some Americans as your allies who are keeping informed of the great atrocities occurring presently in Iraq and are working with you to end this injustice, rather than viewing us all as enemies, as it seems you do.
i haven't read your posts before, so i don't know if your comments on this article are of a similar nature with what you have written before.
But it seems to me that the author of this blog and its contributors are in general in sympathy with your position - that the occupation of Iraq by US forces is illegal and immoral and causing great harm. So i am troubled by what seems to be your hostility toward those who would be your allies.
Although the political tide in the US has been turning, culturally there is still a great deal of pressure to be "patriotic," especially in the press, which still unfortunately is equated with "supporting the troops" and not questioning our Commander in Chief.
Mr Harrop's statement imo is a brave - yes brave -and all too rare action for peace and against war. He is showing how it is possible to distinguish support for "the troops" (as individual persons like his son) and dissent against the war. Somehow this is still very difficult to for the US public to grasp.
It's my wish that you can see some Americans as your allies who are keeping informed of the great atrocities occurring presently in Iraq and are working with you to end this injustice, rather than viewing us all as enemies, as it seems you do.
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