It contrasted well with the absolutely dire address at the Unitarians the following day where a handful of aging and irrelevant Stalinists engaged in a talk claiming that Kruschev and Gorbachev had betrayed the Soviet Union.
I would agree with that assessment, and think that the world is better for that betrayal. We are not still consciously living with the immanent threat of nuclear war (though the risk has actually only declined slightly) and if dismantling a oppressive state system is betrayal, then I think we ought to have more of that. Maybe the US Homeland could be betrayed next?
I guess they'd prefer an "Iron Man" like Stain to have kept running things. Some of that may be misplaced nostalgia for a simplistic life under an oppressive regime. Easier to be focussed on less things (survival?) under a state run by secret police than to have to many choices? I saw ONE GERMANY on SBS last week and it was all about folk there pining for Trabants and such things. It's always easier to embellish and glorify a past, athn live in the present, even if that present is "better".
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Date: 2011-08-18 12:56 am (UTC)I would agree with that assessment, and think that the world is better for that betrayal. We are not still consciously living with the immanent threat of nuclear war (though the risk has actually only declined slightly) and if dismantling a oppressive state system is betrayal, then I think we ought to have more of that. Maybe the US Homeland could be betrayed next?
I guess they'd prefer an "Iron Man" like Stain to have kept running things. Some of that may be misplaced nostalgia for a simplistic life under an oppressive regime. Easier to be focussed on less things (survival?) under a state run by secret police than to have to many choices? I saw ONE GERMANY on SBS last week and it was all about folk there pining for Trabants and such things. It's always easier to embellish and glorify a past, athn live in the present, even if that present is "better".