tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post2150728782128848915..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: More Limits to My ComprehensionYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-88656530686113022552010-10-12T15:00:42.016+02:002010-10-12T15:00:42.016+02:00AKUS
each and every morning when I succumb once ag...AKUS<br />each and every morning when I succumb once again to my blog addiction I ask myself this question:<br /><br />http://itunes.apple.com/de/podcast/impact/id214356260?i=86235093<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-29902169136246548462010-10-12T13:07:12.731+02:002010-10-12T13:07:12.731+02:00The question I would ask is how many of these blog...The question I would ask is how many of these bloggers are actually read?<br /><br />I have looked at statistics recorded for websites of this sort, and they are dismal. <br /><br />If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, did it really fall?<br /><br />If a blogger writes and no one reads the blog, does it really matter? <br /><br />The Internet is littered with blogs that have dried up after a few articles, and others where someone with verbal diarrhea continues pushing his/her pet issue no matter how few read it.AKUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-29476977610333502152010-10-12T00:12:18.048+02:002010-10-12T00:12:18.048+02:00Whenever I've dealt with the liberal left acti...Whenever I've dealt with the liberal left activist I got a headache. This guy is typical of his kind right around the world, we get the same nonsense too. What he wants sounds reasonable enough but it never occurs to these people that every normal person wants the same thing. We just know from life's travails that it's never that simple and that we can't always get what we want because we're competing against other peoples' wants. If the situation wasn't so tragic I'd find him amusing, his use of the term pragmatism is hugely ironic. A pragmatist is a realist and his is a flight of fancy. It's the absense of pragmatism which is a standout signature of the liberal left. They live in a dream world, completely removed from reality, and to see a dreamer talking about pragmatism is, well.... <br /><br />Yaacov they come across as smug & superior because they see life as a simplistic cause & effect vista. Israel is mean to the Palestinians so they respond in kind. If Israel was nice to them then they'd be nice too. How could we possibly not realise that, we must be all so stupid. <br /><br /><br />GavinGavinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-25306426389752656732010-10-11T21:49:48.929+02:002010-10-11T21:49:48.929+02:00David
thanks for the compliment - I keep harping o...David<br />thanks for the compliment - I keep harping on it because I lived in that village an hour from Frankfurt and if I'd talk to my neighbours like I talked at the office their eyes would go blank. No problem to adjust my language but what about the main German news TV at night, that was the same or even worse "level" of language so all they'd get would be the pictures? And they were shrewd intelligent independent thinkers albeit with a lot of respect and deference for everybody who had a title and/or a position. Those people would be taken seriously without a doubt. And it was the same when I had a chance to chat with non-paper-pushers at my work place. I am terribly afraid that with all that anger swirling around now that we will lose those people again to the first who speaks in a way easily comprehensible but not back patting patronising.<br /><br />Papperlapapping is a verb that I have "created" myself because I couldn't think of an English equivalent at the time and it is quite satisfying to pronounce<br />- there is however a genuine German word Papperlapapp<br />which I seem to remember from folksy comedies which were written decades and decades ago. There when somebody told somebody else that he/she was talking gibberish he/she might cut it short by saying papperlapapp but now I got curious if Google knows some etymology to the thing. I didn't find anything but in Avignon around the Pope's Palace (Pope in German is Papst???) they have a play by the name. Could it be that I am in synch with the coming Zeitgeist? ;-)<br />http://www.festival-avignon.com/en/Spectacle/1<br /><br />Silke<br />-----<br />André<br />As to Panem that will be the most dearest to the "masses" heart but here is a bit of amazing info as to Circus (forget Reza Aslan) http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-10-09/rupert-murdochs-invasion-of-iran/p/<br /><br />Telenovelas are a big hit in Iran<br /><br />now is there no Latin American Telenovelas hit producer (our first came from Brazil - Sergio action is required) who could include stories making the two victims of the Pallywood-style assaults on cars in Jerusalem (the Elder of Ziyon has all the details) seem so very much in need of sympathy that the viewers' hearts bleed for them?<br /><br />My personal guess is that this kind of (low-brow) TV-Sagas are a kind of substitute for village gossip If they are such a hit, why is it that Hollywood seems to have lost that part of the spectrum.<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-21502524163731459872010-10-11T21:15:41.080+02:002010-10-11T21:15:41.080+02:00Silke,
I am so glad that neither Victor nor Yaaco...Silke,<br /><br /><i>I am so glad that neither Victor nor Yaacov can make sense of the guy. I am preaching this for decades now, it is important to give us in the "masses" the tools and the self-confidence to detect the BS-sers. (not everybody writing garbled stuff is deluded some are trying to express things they aren't up to yet - it is important to learn to trust one's gut - it is a good guide as to who tries genuinely and who just papperlapapps)</i><br /><br />I think there is as much wisdom packed into the paragraph above as I have ever seen in so many words. Well done!<br /><br />One question: What exactly does it mean "zu papperlapappen"? It looks pretty vulgar to my rudimentary German, but I am not easily offended and I would really like to know.<br /><br />David E. SigetiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-82851974044754596452010-10-11T19:35:04.367+02:002010-10-11T19:35:04.367+02:00Silke,
interesting point you make.
Joachim Ferna...Silke,<br /><br />interesting point you make.<br /><br />Joachim Fernau was always skeptical of the so called "Volksfreunde"( friends of the people). Some examples include some very early leftists, e.g. the brothers Gracchus of ancient Rome.<br /><br />Throughout history there were a lot of people, who claimed to know the will of the masses and who pretetended to execute this will. Most of them were a truly selfish lot (Iulius Caesar e.g.), and not very concerned about their people.<br /><br />I think the old saying "panem et circenses" (bread and games) to sedate the decadent "plebs" (people/mob) to buy the allegiance of the "dumb mass" contradicts your point.<br /><br />On the other hand, perhaps the world we live in is not as much degenerated as the late Roman Empire was. Or at least I hope so.<br /><br />Regards, AndréAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-42924664416550385112010-10-11T16:58:46.953+02:002010-10-11T16:58:46.953+02:00This form of preaching, of smug superior self-righ...This form of preaching, of smug superior self-righteous not only exists on the Western Left but on the Stupid Jews of Israel's ever-shrinking Left as well.<br /><br />People have lost patience with it. Its an arrogant conceit that assumes the problem can be reduced to X solution and peace will magically happen. They won't. Israelis know this after the past 17 years and they know their Foreign Minister is right in dismissing deadlines and talk of fierce urgency.<br /><br />Some things have to remain for another generation to tackle. Its time (pun intended) to give the current Middle East mess a time-out.NormanFhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03365459073293643108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-35915430755499826052010-10-11T15:53:44.493+02:002010-10-11T15:53:44.493+02:00I get the feeling he sees himself superior, morall...<i>I get the feeling he sees himself superior, morally and diplomatically</i><br /><br />that's a feeling I get from all of them bad mannered ones (what it boils down to once you think about it) with NIF ranking top and Goldberg in the lower ranks. But the feeling of I am superior is palpably there (I admit that as a lifelong subaltern to German academics I may be a bit oversensitive in that field but even if I am that doesn't prove I am wrong)<br /><br />I am so glad that neither Victor nor Yaacov can make sense of the guy. I am preaching this for decades now, it is important to give us in the "masses" the tools and the self-confidence to detect the BS-sers. (not everybody writing garbled stuff is deluded some are trying to express things they aren't up to yet - it is important to learn to trust one's gut - it is a good guide as to who tries genuinely and who just papperlapapps)<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-88261914099993779442010-10-11T14:34:57.578+02:002010-10-11T14:34:57.578+02:00It's incomprehensible. If you believe in the o...It's incomprehensible. If you believe in the one state solution, you can find it there. If you believe in Netanyahu's "Economic Peace" with limited autonomy, you can find it there.Avigdorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05008730229882004376noreply@blogger.com