At 09:08 PM 06/11/2005 -0800, you wrote:
>I don't think we really disagree, or not
much.
Of course, but Rara Avis is such a great place to split
hairs.
>What's at the conscious level, what's not--I do think
it depends sometimes
>on the writer, the level of sophistication, the
nature of the work.
Yes. Though I was thinking as much, or more, about
readers.
>The statement you quote from Noor Manifesto, I think
that is a political
>statement, or can be read that way--but for me the
idea of "revolution" is
>not limited to what we generally refer to as the
political arena.
If you're calling the political arena partisan politics, Dems
& Reps, the left and the right, up here the Liberals,
Conservatives and New Democrats, I think your point is
evident in the Manifesto. I took it that you were talking
about the issues of power and dominance among and within
groups: politics in the wider sense. Noir spoke to these
issues in the past and should again, I think you were saying.
I guess my point is that the timing for your "revolution" is
good as it becomes increasingly evident that there is little
in the way of politics, that is political choice, within the
traditional realm of the political arena.
>But I also think that Frederick--in his post under
Agents of the
>Empire--brings up an interesting paradox.
Exactly. Power corrupts. Always worth repeating. Somehow,
with even tiny bits of power pursued, acquired, practiced and
protected, we must believe we're the exception. But at least
it means that noir remains relevant.
Isn't that why we label characters like Jake Danser
psychopaths? To distance them from ourselves? We're not like
that. We could never do those things. Surely.
Kerry
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