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At 06:19 PM 9/27/2007, PJ wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 9/26/07, Emlyn
<emlynoregan@gmail.com> wrote:<br>
> This isn't new, but it is interesting, I thought some people
mightn't<br>
> have seen it. It'll read as pretty strongly partisan, so get past
that<br>
> if you can. Do you think things are really as bad as she
describes?<br><br>
Naomi Wolf and Naomi Klein need to get together. See Naomi
Klein's<br>
The Shock Doctrine:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine" eudora="autourl">
http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine</a><br><br>
In a word, Emlyn, my answer is 'yes.'<br><br>
But remember this: even fascists believe they're doing the right<br>
thing. They balance what they and the country gain by their
actions<br>
against what they and the country might lose if they refrained.<br>
Hence, their behavior.</blockquote><br>
Naomi Wolf, in my opinion, built a persuasive thesis but I did not go for
it. I would have preferred she write about how elements of a
hip-hop/gangster-rap subculture manipulates women into becoming sex
slaves. The idea of beauty and women wanting to be beautiful
reaches far beyond the corner that Wolf paints it into. I for one
have always honored women who strive to be beautiful and groom themselves
to look their best. Yes, I have simplified her theory, but I didn't
like it from the get-go and I don't like it now. Again, she struck
out at a segment of society that was seemed to want to be smacked down,
relying on women needed to be punished and feel guilty for their
pleasures, and she lessened the historical value of beauty for beauty's
sake.<br><br>
Now, about this Naomi Klein. I admire her on-camera presence and
articulation. Isn't she is applying disaster engineering to combat
disaster capitalism. This is a technique used with Critical Art
Ensemble and which I deplore because it heightens information for
effect. In filmmaking, drama pools in the audience and the more
dramatic, the more the audience surrenders its individuality while being
scooped up and driven by the filmic method of narrative and effect.
I would like to see her go head to head with Virginia Prostrel.<br><br>
Natasha<x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a> </font>
<dd>PhD Candidate, Planetary Collegium -University of Plymouth - Faculty
of Technology,
<dd><font size=2>School of Computing, Communications and
Electronics</font>, <i>Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive
Arts</i> <br><br>
<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller</font>
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