Tag Archives: Joseph Conrad

at the wall of disbelief

Posted on December 4, 2011 by Dave

It’s another case of utter disbelief. It can be said that disbelief arises, as a primal reaction, before knowledge, rationality, and analysis roll in and suffocate it; attempts to domesticate it, tame the volatile components and explain it away, perhaps … Continue reading →

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liberal bias: in-conscience of a liberal

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

The quintessential bleeding heart liberal, the kind of perverse sensibility guided by blinders and unwilling and ineffective in bringing about meaningful change. The establishment liberal , who according to Joseph Conrad, was a “moralist who betrayed rather than revealed the … Continue reading →

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men of property

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Dave

Joseph Conrad characterized John Galsworthy as a moralist, someone who tended to betray instead of revealing ” the very truth of things.” In part, the sterling example of an ineffectual empathy, a sterile compassion that was reluctant to transform an … Continue reading →

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the poor don’t need your pity

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

…But John Galsworthy’s concern with the suffering of others was occasioned more by the pain knowledge of it gave him than by the pain experience of it gave them: It was the sensitive liberal’s position in succinct form.But once awakened … Continue reading →

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writing from the port side

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading →

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kicking the can down the road: again

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Dave

There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading →

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naipaul: at the mercy of the “bow and arrow men”

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Dave

“If a writer doesn’t generate hostility, he is dead. …Writers should provoke disagreement.” – V.S. Naipaul. Naipaul is something of a master craftsman in putting down rivals, the art of invidious comparison, and the guile of over-the-top self adulation. It … Continue reading →

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PLEDGING FAITH AS COLLATERAL: Sloth & the Imp

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Dave

“This new millennium already marked by killings is merely a sign of what Conrad called our miserable ingenuity. How we love to create Devils and Gods and bloody rivers of ways to get their almighty attention. What we turn away … Continue reading →

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WASTELAND:THE EARTH IS FIXED AT THE CENTER OF THE EGO

Posted on October 1, 2010 by Dave

In this decayed hole among the mountains, In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind’s home. It has no windows, and the door swings, Dry … Continue reading →

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ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Dave

… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading →