Gustave Flaubert
you surely don't know the guy ,but what he wrote back in 1871 was what jij could call a "prophecy":
"what distresses me is: (1) the ferocity of men; (2) the conviction that we have enter a stupid era. People will be utilitarian, military, American;(3)The whole dream of democracy(as it is) is to elevate the proletarian to the level of the imbecility of the bourgeois; (4)IN THE SILENCE OF THE SLIPPERS, THE NOISE OF THE BOOTS GROWS"
so what do you make out of it,without context(France 1871)?
linky (http://perso.orange.fr/jb.guinot/pages/textes.html)
The Aeson
19-09-2006, 15:16
you surely don't know the guy ,but what he wrote back in 1871 was what jij could call a "prophecy":
"what distresses me is: (1) the ferocity of men; (2) the conviction that we have enter a stupid era. People will be utilitarian, military, American;(3)The whole dream of democracy(as it is) is to elevate the proletarian to the level of the imbecility of the bourgeois; (4)IN THE SILENCE OF THE SLIPPERS, THE NOISE OF THE BOOTS GROWS"
so what do you make out of it,without context(France 1871)?
linky (http://perso.orange.fr/jb.guinot/pages/textes.html)
Arr! I not be speaking none o that French bilgewater language!
Arr! I not be speaking none o that French bilgewater language!
go there (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5115)
Polite Individuals
19-09-2006, 15:43
As interesting an author as Flaubert is (and I did know of him, though not extensively), anything out of context risks missing the point of the author. Given no context and not thinking about the author, I'd say it's alarmist, communist/socialist philosophy. To say that the proletarian is necessarilly smarter and/or better than the bourgeois is not a safe assumtion, if for no other reason than it can only be true on a case-by-case basis. The words give a good warning: be careful of angry stupid people. Other than that, the last bit is catchy, but does not say too much of real substance.
As interesting an author as Flaubert is (and I did know of him, though not extensively), anything out of context risks missing the point of the author. Given no context and not thinking about the author, I'd say it's alarmist, communist/socialist philosophy. To say that the proletarian is necessarilly smarter and/or better than the bourgeois is not a safe assumtion, if for no other reason than it can only be true on a case-by-case basis. The words give a good warning: be careful of angry stupid people. Other than that, the last bit is catchy, but does not say too much of real substance.
well you are right the guy is catchy,i did put a link, and for me the guy doesn't want to be thorn between the right or left paradigm,but that is my humble opinion.