The Dean - His Social Commentary Gaudium in Fullosiam, Gaudium Omnibus Quorem Studium Fullosae Deditur
February 29, 2001
Dear Bill:
I came across this fascinating rapartee in Inditer dot com.
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 Donald Grant DeMan wrote: While forced to avoid the sharpest literary thorns, it took me a minute or two to arrange my metaphor-sensing nodules to allow an intermix with those of history and sociological appreciation al la "the dumb blonde" syndrome (though Rose, the human, may well have been a redhead) I nevertheless enjoyed the exercise, and felt the rewards of John Collin's wit ring true.
I too have always admired the indestructible entity which lives and pulsates within my world, untouchable, beautiful beyond wonder and surely outliving even the cosmos. Secretly even, we all have one stowed among the dusty webs which inhabit our souls. That John's has deep historical and philosophical roots and branches, is indeed a bonus for us all.A piece well written. A point well-made.
(signed) Donald Grant DeManMorés of Nations Clintonized
An Essay Responding to D. Grant DeMan
see Donald Grant DeMan's item. Vox Pop, Feb 21, 2001.....by Richard Koss
The ultimate conclusion of Don Grant DeMan in `A Nation Clintonised' is that North American morés have not really fallen. Media surveillance have more directly exposed the foibles of our leaders. That sounds like a reasonable statement. Where is the outrage of the people? Are not ordinary citizens, disgusted at the endless, lawless] and classless of the Clintons? My question is this. Would the citizenry of yesteryear have been outraged with their leaders? I think they would have been damned outraged. That many people today are not outraged, tells us how low the moral barometer has fallen.
"Foibles" is defined as weakness or frailty in character. Is Clinton's biography just a long trail of foibles? sitting on a library shelf next to Ćsop. "Clinton's Foibles."?
Richard Koss
The media and the Clintons is a complex relationship. Undoubtedly the media fully reported the Clinton's foibles: the way the Clintons left the White House stealing as much of the furnishings as would put to shame low grade, no 'count white trash on their first visit to a five star hotel. I suppose from these accounts that the Clintons had to be instructed at times on personal hygene as well during their tenure.
On the other hand the US press was very generous to the Clintons. I speak of what never appears in the US Establishment Press: the persistent slippage in the US economy, casualty reports on the various foreign adventures undertaken (the number of which in any given Clinton year exceeded those simultaneously attempted by the previous world Empire Britain at the height of its expansionism) or the Hep C scandal where Arkansas sold corrupted blood to Canada. Indeed from a legal perspective, that case involves fascinating issues which warrant public discussion and even touch on the very point of state sovereignty often the subject of heated and violent debate here. Yet I have heard nothing.
I cannot say that I hold against either Clinton the discovery of a non-cancerous use of the gift of John Rolfe and Pocahantas or of any of his other foibles with the ladies, but I do view with concern attacks on the Balkans whose history has seen them avenge themselves against interlopers as powerful and tenacious as Stalin and Hitler, the continued hostilities with Iraq which holds on despite continued US bombing and yes, the spread of disease to a neighbor known through its long linguistic and cultural ties to be likely to inadvertantly return that compliment. Each of those foibles, since Arabs and Slavs neither forgive nor forget, and since a contagion uncontrolled can't be stopped, are likely to have devastating effects in the future.
But the Clintons are true to the low grade, no 'count white trash faith unlikely to understand how a sick farmer in Alberta could re-transmit the disease to the Ozarks.
I certainly hope neither Clinton needs a blood transfusion.
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