tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post8859125313475516846..comments2024-03-22T05:48:33.690-07:00Comments on Uncensored John Simon: MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY?John Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00876490457067235124noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-3663877578633838832011-06-12T14:46:16.234-07:002011-06-12T14:46:16.234-07:00And you, Iswas, are manifestly imperfect, though y...And you, Iswas, are manifestly imperfect, though your relation to reality is tangential at best. Begone! Slither back under that rock.Joe Carlsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10925042164233399553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-65237364418136455652011-06-12T14:30:59.295-07:002011-06-12T14:30:59.295-07:00Ratko's ethnic cleansing and Simon's gramm...Ratko's ethnic cleansing and Simon's grammatical cleansing are both manifestations of the same mentality. Utopianism. To be human, we must accept imperfections as part of reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-59642195982664240452011-06-11T22:44:44.771-07:002011-06-11T22:44:44.771-07:00"The huns--the ancestors of Hungarians--were ..."The huns--the ancestors of Hungarians--were both slavers and warmongers."<br /><br />Perhaps; but they became fairly well civilized -- unlike Mohammedans. But what can one expect from a people who revere a barbarian as the "best model of conduct" for all time?Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-38262261524983378902011-06-11T22:41:51.979-07:002011-06-11T22:41:51.979-07:00Apropos of the French "petty bourgeois",...Apropos of the French "petty bourgeois", I found Jacques Tati's <i>Mon Oncle</i> nicely skewered them while it depicted the warm, albeit rather Mediterraneanly hyper, lower classes with affection.Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-59405192775949613242011-06-11T12:02:37.265-07:002011-06-11T12:02:37.265-07:00"Only about the French do I have reservations..."Only about the French do I have reservations. Not about the upper classes, which, though somewhat cold, are erudite and witty. And certainly not about the lower classes, which I found good-humored and warm-hearted. Only about the middle class, which, in my admittedly limited experience, struck me as penny-pinching, standoffish, and xenophobic, and aptly called petit—or petty—bourgeois."<br /><br />In other words, you can't handle the truth. Rich Frenchmen can live in a world of fancy manners and high ideals because they can afford to. In other words, they say all the high-minded politically correct things but use their doughy to live apart from social problems caused by excessive immigration and crime. Same here in the US. The likes of Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, David Rockefeller, and all those fancy liberal Jewish millionaires act holier-than-thou and speak in lofty terms, but then, they can afford to live in their gated communities, mansions, or penthouses. They don't have to practice what they preach. <br /><br />As for the lower classes, their whole idea of life is living hand-to-mouth; they seem happy to wallow in their slobbishness and pig out on junk food and junk culture. This can make them seem childlike and charming, but only from a certain distance. <br /><br />The middle classes, on the other hand, want to improve themselves AND have to deal with reality. They are not rich enough to remove themselves entirely from crime and other problems. Middle class people in America have to confront black crime, illegal invasion from Mexico, etc. <br />Same in France. The rich can live in their own fancy bubble world and put on highfaultin manners. The poor can dance to rap music and pig out on welfare. But the middle class have to work to get buy and they do want to better themselves. What you call 'xenophobic' and 'petty' are actually realism, but you just can't handle reality. <br />Why not? You hang around the fancy-pantsy crowd, you lived your whole life around pompous Ivy League types with their neo-aristocratic noblesse oblige airs, ooh lala. <br /><br />Or, maybe you're projecting your own self-loathing onto the French middle class. People have said 'Simon is too conservative, too bourgeois, too stuffy, too anal, too racist, too homophobic, too rigid, too strict, too much of an asshole'--the sort of stuff you say about the French Middle Class. But you wanna impress others that you're some 'citizen of the world' while projecting your self-loathing neurosis on the 'petty' and 'xenophobic' French middle class. <br /><br />Well, if France is to be saved, don't place your hopes on the French lower classes listening to rap or on the French upper classes living in their bubble world while preaching globalist crap. It will be if the 'petty' and 'xenophobic' French middle class rise up and fight for their nation. I say they are passionate and proud, and I praise the French middle class for giving the bratty, pesty, nasty, and pretentious youngboy Simon a hard time. <br /><br />Btw, maybe the lower-class French guy treated you well cuz he saw you as a kind of social superior to impress. Do you think he would have been as nice if you were poorer than he? The world isn't your oyster, Simon. Pull your head out of your ass.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-58594785761891968242011-06-11T11:31:14.821-07:002011-06-11T11:31:14.821-07:00"It might well be a better world in which nat..."It might well be a better world in which nationality or ethnicity of any kind did not matter."<br /><br />The world is getting worse because natioanlis/ethnicism is mattering less. As a result, hordes of Muslims are pouring in Europe. AIPAC uses America as its war-whore. SW is being taken over by Mexicans and being turned into Greater Mexico. <br />The whole Yugoslavian mess happened because nationalism had been suppressed for so long. WWII wasn't the result of nationalism but imperialism--disrespect of the nationalisms of other peoples by conquering and trampling on their national rights. We needed clearer borders and we need to respect the nationalisms of others and preserve our own nationalism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-36131012714959807882011-06-07T05:09:19.368-07:002011-06-07T05:09:19.368-07:00Anyone know what season and what episode of "...Anyone know what season and what episode of "Saturday Night Live" Mr. Simon appeared on?noochinatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12584058407655395128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-20220247063767815602011-06-06T22:56:37.105-07:002011-06-06T22:56:37.105-07:00Mr. Simon ends:
"Actually, I would like to t...Mr. Simon ends:<br /><br />"Actually, I would like to think of myself as a citizen of the world, if only the world would offer me joint citizenship with the United States. World-United, what a good thing that would be!"<br /><br />Another three Obama terms (FDR-style), and you might get your wish (and we all know the caveat about getting what one wishes for). It's all well and good to wax cosmopolitan (and I don't refer to Brazilian waxes...), as long as the waxing isn't so indiscriminately warm as to spill over from a melting-pot of dross grosser than my mixing of metaphors.<br /><br />And then again, Mr. Simon, haven't you already, more or less, enjoyed a long life of "World United" anyway -- compliments of a relatively stable, secure and healthy West? No need for de jure, when de facto works; no?Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-3647704143409361422011-06-01T22:56:58.878-07:002011-06-01T22:56:58.878-07:00P.S.: I confess that I wrote the above before act...P.S.: I confess that I wrote the above before actually reading Mr. Simon's piece; and now, after having read it, I hope my sixth sense is not jumping the gun to pun that "Denial ain't just a river under the Bridge over the Drina"...Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3752457333383090137.post-42487007852470455282011-06-01T22:42:50.259-07:002011-06-01T22:42:50.259-07:00I'm heartened to see Mr. Simon write about thi...I'm heartened to see Mr. Simon write about things Serbian (I only learned a few years ago of his Serbian provenance).<br /><br />I recall, when I was still a rather dim-witted teenager, happening by accident to chance upon a paperback novel called <i>The Bridge on the Drina</i> by the Serbian novelist Ivo Andric. At the time, it seemed to be simply a fantasy or fairy tale about an exotic time and place where evil “Turks” were besieging some people. Only in the last few years have I graduated along the “Learning Curve” to know the grimly real and relentless history (and ongoing present) behind that tale.<br /><br />I hope Mr. Simon is aware of the work of journalist Julia Gorin who has been reporting on the jihad against the Serbs which simply continues what Muslims have been doing to that particular area of what for centuries was part of the <i>Dar-al-Islam</i> (the "Realm of Islam" (by brutal conquest, of course)) -- but now, like Spain, India, Israel, the Philippines, et al., has, through the spectacular rise to global superiority of the West in the past three centuries or so, reverted to the <i>Dar-al-Harb</i> (the "Realm of War" -- i.e., the realm of Infidels taking back what was brutally taken from them and brutally occupied).<br /><br />At any rate, a place as good as any to start with Gorin's writing on the subject is one of her latest, on Mladic:<br /><br />http://www.juliagorin.com/wordpress/?p=2640Hesperadohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394374828751466705noreply@blogger.com