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
