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Reds and the Greens

In general, I hate to love writes Pierre Foglia. It's my way of sulking snobs. It's my form of snobbery, in minor keys. But today , I must confess that it strikes the nail, and a point that few people have noted so far:

The Berlin Wall fell and a week later they had all already recycled in the environment. Who? Communists, socialists, leftists. I know these guys, and I tell you they do not care of global warming. What they want is the destruction of capitalism, market economy, the IMF, growth .(...)

So? Fuck ecology and move on? Tsk, tsk. On the merits, the ecology is correct. Let's just vigilant. Do we set a clear goal: to bring ecology into capitalism without clutter, without question. Without slowing it down. In other

words, if you weigh against the oil sands, you're a Red, a Communist. If you put your box of pea soup in the blue box after removing the label, you're a green. Many environmental activists do not want to question the fundamental order of things that led us to disaster. And there is a strong current level of government and business, to destroy the crédibilté environmentalists who threaten their interests.


The left Obama

I am a pessimist, regular readers of this blog know. It's a comfortable position. This assures me of having always ... because, in the longer term. But yesterday I read a text of Joe Bageant , Vietnam veteran hippie Marxist and journalist, who shows a wonderful pessimism, with a plume and a lyrical I never equaled.

Joe expresses his disappointment at the decisions of Obama in his first year in office. Anything goes:

As You May Know, Obama's public approval "ratings are Taking a beating. Millions of cult members form history Have Awakened With A splitting hangover to find Their Pockets Turned Inside Out and eviction notices are the doors of 4.000 square foot Their subprime mortgaged fuck cardboard boxes. (You know perhaps, the satisfaction rate against Obama have sunk. Millions of members of his former club fans woke up with a headache rifle to find their pockets empty and eviction notices on the doors of their huts cursed 4000 square feet mortgages with subprime. ) (My translation)

Joe addresses several themes: Obama continues Bush's policies. Will close Guantanamo, but only to be moved on U.S. soil. Sending more troops to Afghanistan, the Wall Street bailout, the unemployment rate to 10% (which would be 20% if both the unemployed had not stopped seeking employment), the three and a half million Americans who live in tents and the million children who débarbouillent as they can to look presentable when they arrive at school reform health goes water coil, etc..

I feel that for now, Obama made too many concessions to Republicans. They do it'll never see a lift and disappointed Democrats may drop in 2012.


Louise Mailloux illuminates

Another beautiful article has enlightened my week. Should burn Levi-Strauss Louise Mailloux told me the true meaning of magic formulas that can be seen everywhere: "structuralism," "relativism," "right to difference" and "multiculturalism." Again, oh miracle, it is written in fluid language simple and clear:

Unlike its predecessors, Levi-Strauss refuses to divide the world into two with one hand, the civilized West finally got rid of its feathers and convinced of his superiority, and the other, distant wild barefoot still entangled in the infancy of mankind. It

breaking with this ethnocentric perspective that Levi-Strauss decolonizing anthropology, considering each culture as a richness and uniqueness to preserve, denying each a monopoly of universality and thereby relativizing Western culture to be only one culture among others (...)

For structuralists, the only religion that is allowed is that of difference. Finite hierarchy among peoples and cultures, also finished the story progresses, as the Enlightenment and Marxism we have promised, and leads to civilization and soap. There is more

Nowhere truths that hold nothing but observable values that we must respect that because we no longer have any criteria that would allow us to decide. And it would show a much greater violence against the other to want to make judgments of value on culture. But Louise Mailloux

bristled:

Should we abandon the universality of human rights on the pretext that they are from Western culture and they contradict the teachings of the Koran? Gender equality would it then be valid only for western women?

Should we tolerate sexism pretext that cloaks itself in subtly non-Western cultural identity? Levi-Strauss has made us lose ground but is this a reason to lose your head?

For my part, I do not think there are universal values, and especially not values that are worth the trouble that requires the military to other countries. Simply, there are values in a given environment and it is right that those who want to keep them inspired. As a result, men and women are equal in Quebec and it is useless to preach gender equality in distant Afghan tribes or Papuan. For purposes of anthropological studies, all cultures are equal. But to live well in a particular social setting, there is nothing like its old values.