Doug,
I'm afraid I completely agree...
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Henwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 3:11 PM
Subject: [PEN-L:5847] Re: Re: Re: FWD: [Fwd: Alive and well for now]
>Jim Devine wrote:
>
>>At 02:23 PM 4/23/99 -0400, Barkley wrote:
>>> This "heart of Serbia" argument is just the worst sort of pathetic
>>drivel. I am very sorry that these suffering people are so fixated on
>>such deluded garbage.<
>>
>>One problem is the US/NATO-imposed suffering is pushing them to embrace
>>that kind of deluded garbage.
>
>Maybe my Zizek is showing, but nationalist movements typically flourish
>when a group is under outside attack or dominance (and fall apart when the
>external threat is removed), and invent a grand history to which they're
>the inheritors among their foundational acts. You're not going to refute
>its emotional appeal to Serbians with rational argument.
>
>Doug
>
>
