Amen! Really don't like those pesky protesters on Tahrir Square, long live President Mubarak!
Woody Allen
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- tenia
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Not sure if this answer is supposed to be ironic or not.
I just wanted to remind that one certainly shouldn't generalise who is right solely through the sizes of the sides. "The number of people actively protesting this is infinitesimally small." So what ? Being in the minority doesn't mean they're the ones in the wrong. However, this works both ways.
I just wanted to remind that one certainly shouldn't generalise who is right solely through the sizes of the sides. "The number of people actively protesting this is infinitesimally small." So what ? Being in the minority doesn't mean they're the ones in the wrong. However, this works both ways.
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It works both ways! Wow, this maxim known since THE Antiquity just gets more useful by the minute!tenia wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:38 pmNot sure if this answer is supposed to be ironic or not.
I just wanted to remind that one certainly shouldn't generalise who is right solely through the sizes of the sides. "The number of people actively protesting this is infinitesimally small." So what ? Being in the minority doesn't mean they're the ones in the wrong. However, this works both ways.
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You seem not to have understood tenia's pretty-much-universally-accepted-among-educated-people point but instead have focused on a possible typo or cut and paste error. Maybe I'm missing some ribbing? Something playfully intended that isn't quite working for me?feckless boy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:55 pmIt works both ways! Wow, this maxim known since THE Antiquity just gets more useful by the minute!
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In French l'antiquité in this context would be 'since time immemorial' colloquially. I think feckless is trying to live up to his name making a lame dig at this . It's patently obviously what's meant, no need to go Trumpy on it. Tenia speaks better English and is more technically informed than the vast majority of people on here..yoshimori wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:18 pmYou seem not to have understood tenia's pretty-much-universally-accepted-among-educated-people point but instead have focused on a possible typo or cut and paste error. Maybe I'm missing some ribbing? Something playfully intended that isn't quite working for me?feckless boy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:55 pmIt works both ways! Wow, this maxim known since THE Antiquity just gets more useful by the minute!
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No need to worry I've found the source for The-Crowd-Fallacy maxim, it from The-Autocrat-Playbook-101 - who would've known...NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:59 pmIn French l'antiquité in this context would be 'since time immemorial' colloquially. I think feckless is trying to live up to his name making a lame dig at this . It's patently obviously what's meant, no need to go Trumpy on it. Tenia speaks better English and is more technically informed than the vast majority of people on here..yoshimori wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:18 pmYou seem not to have understood tenia's pretty-much-universally-accepted-among-educated-people point but instead have focused on a possible typo or cut and paste error. Maybe I'm missing some ribbing? Something playfully intended that isn't quite working for me?feckless boy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 12:55 pmIt works both ways! Wow, this maxim known since THE Antiquity just gets more useful by the minute!
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Thanks feckless for your tremendously constructive input in this discussion around the definitely difficult-to-translate notions that being in the majority doesn't automatically make you right, not does being in the minority automatically make you wrong.
I actually was aiming specifically at the Ancient Rome era, since one of the most famous discussion about crowd is from Seneca the Younger (that famous autocrat) who wrote in AD 58 in On the Happy Life :NABOB OF NOWHERE wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:59 pmIn French l'antiquité in this context would be 'since time immemorial' colloquially.
When the happy life is under debate, there will be no use for you to reply to me, as if it were a matter of votes: “This side seems to be in a majority.” For that is just the reason it is the worse side. Human affairs are not so happily ordered that the majority prefer the better things; a proof of the worst choice is the crowd.
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Regardless if we are speaking of Roman Antiquity, THE Antiquity or just 'back then' I would urge a reading of Crowds and Power by Elias Canetti as a sobering account of crowd mentality.
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The Guardian on the dangerous move to censor
I do understand, however, that with the same publishing company just publishing Ronan Farrow’s book it’s not exactly a good look. Still, this article largely expresses my feelings on the matter.
I do understand, however, that with the same publishing company just publishing Ronan Farrow’s book it’s not exactly a good look. Still, this article largely expresses my feelings on the matter.
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I think it is appropriate to express qualified discomfort at this move. Because who knows, the potential for deliberate and malicious misconstruing on the internet is infinite.
I think the price to pay for upholding a set of civil liberties and freedoms should not be the sacrifice of other civil liberties and freedoms. In a well-organized and free society, everyone gets to speak. The disfavored get to speak just as much as the popular. There necessarily is another side to every issue. The other side is worth airing. There is an opportunity to disagree. But suppression of the other side is damaging to society. There have been times in history when the "right side" such as is consensually accepted today was the "other" side to the prevailing popular sentiment. Suppression would have left us unenlightened. There is always the possibility of the shoe being on the other foot. Suppression once made mainstream can haunt the cause of civil liberties for an inordinate amount of time. Suppression is not the answer. Championing the cause of civil liberties means committing to the principle and fighting for the rights of those with whom you vehemently disagree.
Everyone gets to speak. We have means of expressing disagreement. We have means to disagree with each other. Let us use them. Civil liberties should not be selectively available. They should be universally available.
I think the price to pay for upholding a set of civil liberties and freedoms should not be the sacrifice of other civil liberties and freedoms. In a well-organized and free society, everyone gets to speak. The disfavored get to speak just as much as the popular. There necessarily is another side to every issue. The other side is worth airing. There is an opportunity to disagree. But suppression of the other side is damaging to society. There have been times in history when the "right side" such as is consensually accepted today was the "other" side to the prevailing popular sentiment. Suppression would have left us unenlightened. There is always the possibility of the shoe being on the other foot. Suppression once made mainstream can haunt the cause of civil liberties for an inordinate amount of time. Suppression is not the answer. Championing the cause of civil liberties means committing to the principle and fighting for the rights of those with whom you vehemently disagree.
Everyone gets to speak. We have means of expressing disagreement. We have means to disagree with each other. Let us use them. Civil liberties should not be selectively available. They should be universally available.
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I disagree.
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Are you saying the government intervened with Hachette's operations and are forbidding the book to be published?Nasir007 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:40 amI think it is appropriate to express qualified discomfort at this move. Because who knows, the potential for deliberate and malicious misconstruing on the internet is infinite.
I think the price to pay for upholding a set of civil liberties and freedoms should not be the sacrifice of other civil liberties and freedoms. In a well-organized and free society, everyone gets to speak. The disfavored get to speak just as much as the popular. There necessarily is another side to every issue. The other side is worth airing. There is an opportunity to disagree. But suppression of the other side is damaging to society. There have been times in history when the "right side" such as is consensually accepted today was the "other" side to the prevailing popular sentiment. Suppression would have left us unenlightened. There is always the possibility of the shoe being on the other foot. Suppression once made mainstream can haunt the cause of civil liberties for an inordinate amount of time. Suppression is not the answer. Championing the cause of civil liberties means committing to the principle and fighting for the rights of those with whom you vehemently disagree.
Everyone gets to speak. We have means of expressing disagreement. We have means to disagree with each other. Let us use them. Civil liberties should not be selectively available. They should be universally available.
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The situation is complicated with Hachette specifically because they had just published Ronan's book, and to then also sign the autobiography on the catalyst of the accused by Ronan with the deepest possible personal feelings, well it's just invalidating and bad business, especially if they weren't transparent with him about that decision as he claims. This also doesn't do Allen any favors because now that there's a huge public uproar about it with staff walking out, he's likely not going to find a publishing company (though I'm sure he shopped around elsewhere first). But not only is it problematic regarding the pandora's box of censorship, but it's just egocentric to take the position that Allen's book should not be published at all. I will not make any definitive claims over what I believe, but he has been acquitted twice, and fucking prisoners who have been tried and convicted get their books published. One can still take a stand against Allen, and nobody is forcing anyone to buy this book, but to put oneself on a pedestal and declare a hunch to represent objective morality is quite a move. Nobody has to finance or publish their works if they don't want to, based on personal morality and perspective, but when we decide to tell artists that they cannot produce art, we are creating a prison for them based on speculation taken as facts in a mob mentality. There's a line there to be drawn, and I don't think it's a fine one. I'm also not saying that anyone here has suggested that his book should not even be allowed to be published, just that this view if taken as 'objective morality' is more harmful than anything that could possibly be in Allen's book, in my opinion.
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There's no respect for due process. It certainly doesn't help matters that public figures like Gerwig, Chalamet, Rebecca Hall and others expressed regret at working with Allen. Gerwig once even said Allen's films had informed her work. She's asked a few years ago about the investigations and she denounces his name. Gerwig most likely knew about those investigations when she was enjoying his films. There's no backlash for these cowards.
Allen is no choir boy but the man co-operated with the authorities and was acquitted.
Allen is no choir boy but the man co-operated with the authorities and was acquitted.
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The whole thing is such a can of worms, and yes, the "mainstream", or at least the loudest, position on WA is so arbitrary and shaky, its like someone doing gymnastics at the edge of a cliff. The worms crawl in all directions, not just towards Woody. and ultimately nothing's changed, nobody knows anything that wasn't known a quarter of a century ago. it's disturbing that, while the mob chooses its idea of justice, they arbitrarily and ruthlessly (and shamelessly and hypocritically) ignore that, among other scenarios, one of the real possibilities for the actual truth of the whole thing remains that Mia, having adopted a whole bunch of underprivileged Asian kids, (_possibly_) seriously abused them for years, used them as puppets for her own image, and raised them in an atmosphere of incestuousness, complete lack of faith in authority figures, fear, usury, horribleness, and more, is now shrewdly taking advantage of this cultural moment to ruthlessly finish off her ex, for something, his confirmed serious grossness to one side, he quite possibly is not guilty of at all. but who knows?
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Excellent news, its listing on Amazon is for April 7 though despite being released today, and I can’t seem to find a way to buy direct from Arcade. Of course bookstores are closed as non-essential- does anyone know a way to get a physical copy more immediately?Cremildo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:58 amApropos of Nothing was released today by Arcade Publishing.
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I just ordered my copy from Amazon and I feel very strongly about the need to support this company for having the bravery to release this
- therewillbeblus
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Same here, I was just hoping to buy it from them direct to give the max. domino, did you purchase the $30 option that lists 4/7 as the release date?
- domino harvey
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Yep, that’s the one I bought. I think Amazon sales ranking can have benefits too, if it makes you feel any better!
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It sure does, though now the listing doesn’t have a release date so either it sold out that quickly or they’re reevaluating a timeline since it came out today.
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Barnes and Noble is offering it cheaper, FWIW, and with an expected ship date of March 30th