Re: [microsound] reading

[billashline@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Ashline)]

Antonio Hubilla <ah827@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>hello.
>
>i've read the attali book.  i didn't think it was actually all that good.
>a friend of mine wrote a large essay against it.  basically, our biggest
>collective problem with it is this, Attali actually isn't as "liberal" or
>"leftist" as one would assume from 'Noise'.  his background is actually as
>a banker, of all things, & he has a leading position within the french
>republic i believe.  

This sounds like you have more of a problem with Attali than you do with his book.  Or is there something specifically in the book that you have a problem with?

-- 
His face is turned towards the past.  Where we preceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet.  The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed.  But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them.  This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward.  This storm is what we call progress.
--Walter Benjamin on the Angel of History

You can always rely on America to do the right thing, once it has exhausted the alternatives.
--Winston Churchill

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