tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post9162370960081177868..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius and Youdriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-27385928222680690972011-09-02T18:38:59.788-05:002011-09-02T18:38:59.788-05:00If the US had less truck with that impostor people...If the US had less truck with that impostor people call Jesus Christ, it'd be in better damn shape, and teleology is <i>still</i> bullshit.<br /><br />One wonders what Borges would have made of Chinese and its to-western-thinking unusual approach to verbs, not to mention Hebrew, which has no real verb conjugation for "to be" (lihiyot) in the present tense.Interrobanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073177798747299275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-6040442409044873582011-09-01T14:00:23.219-05:002011-09-01T14:00:23.219-05:00Mr Driftglass - I've read the story many times...Mr Driftglass - I've read the story many times and it never struck me as about Totalitarianism, just Borges doing what he loved most - spinning out an epistomological proposition to its logical conclusion. It's hard to think of someone with more interiority than Borges and as far as I know, apart from his long-running feud with Peron he didn't spend much time pondering political systems. Nevertheless, you are outstanding, sir, in your righteous witness-bearing and artful prose.casimirnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-4543808936124041462011-09-01T03:25:01.491-05:002011-09-01T03:25:01.491-05:00W being at the top doesn't mean smart evil peo...W being at the top doesn't mean smart evil people aren't running things. It just means you don't know specifically who they are.<br /><br />But you can certainly classify them without knowing their names.Ormond Otvoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04218783352148219090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72374345287642124182011-08-31T05:53:57.134-05:002011-08-31T05:53:57.134-05:00Good morning, Mr. Glass.
1. The term I use is &qu...Good morning, Mr. Glass.<br /><br />1. The term I use is "bullshistory". <br />2. Never heard of "Tlon". It sounds interesting, so thanks.<br />3. I would, however, caution against embracing stories like this and "1984" too much, though. The society of "1984" only works if it's constantly run by efficient super-geniuses. In reality, imbeciles and incompetents eventually get the reins of power, wrecking everything their villainous betters created.<br />As for "Tlon", I have to wonder what happens when one society that has fully embraced this new world interacts with societies that haven't. What motivation do other countries have to embrace America's delusions? If anything, I could see our worst-case-scenario future being that the Right turns us into the poorly educated, low-wage servants of the rest of the world.Kevin Holsingerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17568539831959033188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89194075557531078792011-08-31T02:30:44.269-05:002011-08-31T02:30:44.269-05:00That is one sweet fuckin' photoshop!That is one sweet fuckin' photoshop!Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-79058595172578129832011-08-31T01:16:30.685-05:002011-08-31T01:16:30.685-05:00I've sometimes thought of writing "The Ca...I've sometimes thought of writing "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward: Republican Strategist".<br /><br />I just can't decide if Nixon or Atwater makes a better Curwin. And of course it'd have a much more depressing ending than the original.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com