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erastesSo "Lost" series 3 is going to Satellite. Yay! I can't say I'm sad about that, AT ALL. Best place for it, I say. Can we launch it any further into space? Puleeze?
How do spammers KNOW? I've got about 20 emails in my spam filter saying "Hi erastes" as my subject line - but the thing is, it's being sent to boudicca @ icenii .... I don't understand how they know... *paranoid*
I have to strongly disagree with Miss Snark's comment :. Writing about "hot button" issues like being gay, and dating outside your race, in the hedonisit 60's and 70's is the absolute antithesis of 'fresh and new'. This is particularly true if you lived through it and are writing your own thinly veiled story. The world has moved on. Time to catch up.
OK - so I agree that it's not "fresh and new" but... hedonistic 60's and 70's? *chokes* Yeah. Right. If you lived (perhaps) in San Francisco or New York. For the rest of us things were anything but hedonistic. Being gay meant you HID, hid yourself, your nature, your tastes, your music, your true self. I don't think Miss Snark is in her 40's or 50's - so I rather think her perception of those decades are rather coloured by Hollywood and the media in which she lives. Reading about people's experiences in those decades would be interesting, I think, particularly in comparison with our anything goes "naughties."
I also have to disagree with people glorifying war at this - or any - time. Sorry.
How do spammers KNOW? I've got about 20 emails in my spam filter saying "Hi erastes" as my subject line - but the thing is, it's being sent to boudicca @ icenii .... I don't understand how they know... *paranoid*
I have to strongly disagree with Miss Snark's comment :. Writing about "hot button" issues like being gay, and dating outside your race, in the hedonisit 60's and 70's is the absolute antithesis of 'fresh and new'. This is particularly true if you lived through it and are writing your own thinly veiled story. The world has moved on. Time to catch up.
OK - so I agree that it's not "fresh and new" but... hedonistic 60's and 70's? *chokes* Yeah. Right. If you lived (perhaps) in San Francisco or New York. For the rest of us things were anything but hedonistic. Being gay meant you HID, hid yourself, your nature, your tastes, your music, your true self. I don't think Miss Snark is in her 40's or 50's - so I rather think her perception of those decades are rather coloured by Hollywood and the media in which she lives. Reading about people's experiences in those decades would be interesting, I think, particularly in comparison with our anything goes "naughties."
I also have to disagree with people glorifying war at this - or any - time. Sorry.
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Date: 2006-11-12 11:30 am (UTC)I felt bad after receiving her answer, because I really tried not to step on anybodies toes. And I didn't want to drag a war into your journal. But her shoulder to shoulder attitude of "we fought those German speaking people" annoyed me, and I felt that I had to say something to her.
The glorification of war is a problem, because it allows people to go on with that black and white perception of the parties involved. It's exactly that kind of attitude that enhances the next war. The idea that you are doing "the right thing" simply serves to justify torture, rape and killing. Of course, in the disguise of a fanfic, everybody would agree that Harry is one for whom the end will justify the means. But when we think about dead relatives in the war, things are suddenly a lot more difficult.
Being German and looking back at it - I think that people in my country do have a responsibility for being aware of discrimination. We have to look out for it in our country. We have to be aware and to serve awareness. But I also see this annoyance in young people, who say that this war has happened a long time before they even had been born. They don't want to feel guilty. And maybe their attitude just serves to prove that we, as humans, tend to shy away from responsibility when it is connected to guilt.
I think we should really learn to separate those two. A twenty-year-old today cannot be guilty for what has happened in WWII. But s/he can feel responsible for what happens today. Being German, I think we have to feel extra responsible. Not because we are more prone to go bad again, but because we have a first hand historical experience on it.
Germany, as a country, sometimes has a very depressive or at least pessimistic attitude. People are very likely to see the negative side of an issue, no matter which one. And it's good for Germany that it gets more respect from other countries, like it happened during the world cup. Many people around my age (37) have learned that it's bad to be proud of their nation. This is changing slowly. I still feel a bit uncomfortable with being proud of my nation, but I know that younger people have no problems with being proud of Germany. And this helps the country to be more open.
If national pride can be developed in a way that it serves to not look down on other nations but to welcome them, and to see the strengths and weaknesses of the own history, then national pride might be a good thing. We should use it to unite, instead of to separate.