Posted by floatingbridge on August 8, 2011, at 21:51:32
In reply to Re: A cultural Chernobyl, posted by sigismund on August 8, 2011, at 20:43:12
> I believe, but cannot know or prove, that if the elites had shown more decency and principle, there would be less rioting generally.
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> Someone Pullman, the kids author, has started a committee in the UK, something about how they have been taken over by A FERAL ELITE and the idea is to bring decency back into politics.
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/31/public-jury-
campaign-feral-elite
Wow. That is some coinage. That is truly an amazing phrase. Thank you for the link.
About Pullman's fiction:The third part of the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amber Spyglass, was the first 'children's book' to win the Whitbread prize. The trilogy was widely acclaimed for its gripping plot, absorbing characters, richly inventive imaginative landscape and fearless exploration of big ideas, from the nature of hell to the existence, or otherwise, of God. Some critics, however, found the third volume baggier than the previous two. The only sour note came from the religious lobby, with the Catholic Herald describing his work as "truly the stuff of nightmares... worthy of the bonfire." Not surprising, given Pullman's hatred of organised religion and his statement that "I am all for the death of God." Yet he is a firm believer that writers have a duty to tackle the great moral questions, and it is his ability to do this in such a rich and versatile manner that elevates his work above the fantasy or genre pigeonholes.
I dig a pony.
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