(urth) The Devil in a Forest

[brunians at brunians.org]

Good in this context means 'well (or competently) done'.



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> --- On Mon, 5/18/09, brunians at brunians.org <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
>> > I'm grateful for this discussion, because when I read
>> tDiaF I thought it
>> > was just a quaint, but obvious, morality tale. Now, I
>> realize that it isn't
>> > so "on the nose" at all. It's actually a quite
>> exquisite bit of propaganda
>> > (unlike say "Atlas Shrugged"). Truly masterful
>> propaganda is one where the
>> > audience doesn't realize it's being propagandized.
>>
>> Really good propaganda will have people denying that it is
>> propaganda.
>
> It depends on what you mean by "good".  I suppose you could
> say that a really "good" thief or murderer doesn't get
> caught, but I think the quotation marks are appropriate.
>
> Some propaganda helps bring about many deaths.  The
> kind that people are describing in /The Devil in a Forest/
> (which I haven't read) is presumably far less harmful, but
> I still prefer political arguments with the cards on the
> table.
>
>> I find it very interesting that many of the people who
>> disagree with
>> Wolfe's politics argue that it is not there.
>
> While a number of others know it's there but disagree
> with it.
>
>> Socialism is, when it comes
>> down to it, a process of pretending that the World is
>> different from the way it actually is.
>
> There are lots of -isms and -ities in that category.
>
> Jerry Friedman
>
>
>
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