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If the govt/media stopped hyping terrorism, public fear would persist for

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About Mexican historietas. by Tonatiuh (4.00 / 2) #1 Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 07:45:59 PM EST

I just read the book "Wrong about Japan" in which the author, a Pulitzer Prize winner author, tries to analyze Japan's culture through different lenses including manga and anime.

The funny thing is that while he is trying to find hidden meanings in anime, once he confronts one famous author with his ideas he is met with puzzlement.

"I wrote what I wrote because that is my job" - said an anime script writer - " I was asked to write a plot that would generate lots of tie-in products (toys, cards, books, you name it) so is what I did". So much for the inscrutability of Japanese culture.

So the morale of the history is that some people try to over analyze things and get embroiled in their own intellectual machinations, but reality tends to be much simpler (smut sells).

PS: "Las Chambeadoras" should most definitively not be translated as "the chambermaids" . Chambeador is Mexican slang for somebody that is a good worker, but applied to women in such a context it clearly should translate as "The hookers" (in reality is untranslatable, unless you tell me that in English chambermaid has double meaning similar to what I am describing ...).

hurrah! by Merekat (4.00 / 4) #2 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 03:47:27 AM EST

When I was studying horror films for a course on gender and technology, while I regurgitated the approved line for assignments, there was a voice screaming in my head 'sometimes a slime-dripping monster is just a slime-dripping monster, dammit!'.

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Followup question: by Rogerborg (4.00 / 4) #4 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 06:27:30 AM EST

Q: "But isn't Gundam Wing meant as an expression of the samurai warrior ethos?"

A: "No, it's just meant to sell toys."

Which tells you everything you need to know about both Japanese and Wapanese.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.
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But would he necessarily be aware by nebbish (4.00 / 2) #8 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 07:29:55 AM EST

Of the influence of his own culture, upbringing and subconscious on his work? I think the idea that an artist knows exactly what he is doing and where it comes from is false.

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It's political correctness gone mad!
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We answered that by Rogerborg (4.00 / 2) #10 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 11:37:51 AM EST

4 posts ago.

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Metus amatores matrum compescit, non clementia.
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: Oh well excuse me by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #12 Tue Apr 15, 2008 at 07:26:03 AM EST

For not being at the forefront of the interweb
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Communist scare by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #3 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 05:40:39 AM EST

Remember that conservative Americans at the time would have considered beatniks, hippies and anti-Vietnam protestors to be communists, not to mention groups like the Black Panthers. And remember a lot of these groups DID want to overthrow the American government. Hence a "domestic communist" threat lasting into the 1970s.

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IAWTP by lm (4.00 / 1) #6 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 07:20:30 AM EST

Not to mention that a decent (but not inarguable) case can be made that Oswald assassinated Kennedy `for the cause.'

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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Dunno enough about the Kennedy assassination by nebbish (4.00 / 1) #7 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 07:27:49 AM EST

Didn't aliens do it or something?

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: Aliens may have been behind the plot by lm (4.00 / 2) #9 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 09:09:02 AM EST

But I'm fairly certain that Oswald wasn't an alien.
The best theory I've heard with regard to motive is that Oswald, who was a member of the Communist Party USA and who most likely watched the Walters interview with Castro which contained Castro's remarks that if the US didn't stop trying to assassinate him, he would send operatives to return the favor, decided to take matters into his own hand and return the favor.
One nice thing about this particular theory with regards to motive is that it plays nice with most other theories about the assassination. Whether someone supports the lone gunman theory or multiple sniper theory, the motive could very well be the same. Even if one likes the shadow government military/industrial complex conspiracy theory, they may have found Oswald, intent on furthering the cause of world-wide communism, a convenient pawn.
There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic
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I suppose it depends on what Commie means by lm (4.00 / 2) #5 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 07:07:49 AM EST

A fair argument can be made that the Symbionese Liberation Army was communist under a very broad definition of communism. Admittedly, communism was the core of their ideology, but IIRC collectivism and opposition to private property were both part of their beliefs.

There there is the Revolutionary Army that had some overlapping members with the SLA.

Ted Kaczynski also certainly had some very heavy Marxist influences. But to be fair, considering him part of the communist movement is a stretch.

That's what I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure with some research I could find more. It may very well be that there was no violence associated with members of the official communist party, but there were certainly communists, or communist influenced groups, that committed violence in the US in the seventies.

There is no more degenerate kind of state than that in which the richest are supposed to be the best.
Cicero, The Republic

ugly planes by garlic (4.00 / 1) #11 Mon Apr 14, 2008 at 02:19:23 PM EST

This was terrible -- there are many more ugly planes, and most of the ones shown weren't ugly.

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