after spending the better part of a decade trying to deal with French literary theory in graduate school, which followed MANY years of reading French Existentialist philosophers, my current take on French things is that the French are not serious people who take themselves too seriously. look at French history...wild enthusiasms resultin…
after spending the better part of a decade trying to deal with French literary theory in graduate school, which followed MANY years of reading French Existentialist philosophers, my current take on French things is that the French are not serious people who take themselves too seriously. look at French history...wild enthusiasms resulting, finally, in very little. on the nicer side, there's an element of welcome hypomania in the behavior of French people which I find very attractive.
of course, those wild enthusiasms, coupled with that unserious thing have had some serious (even dire) CONSEQUENCES. think of the many shitshows in the above-mentioned French history. it's not encouraging that they knew Vietnam wasn't going to work out BEFORE we did. it's even less encouraging that we learned nothing from it.
I know that if I suddenly found myself French, the last place I'd wanna be is in POLITICS.
after spending the better part of a decade trying to deal with French literary theory in graduate school, which followed MANY years of reading French Existentialist philosophers, my current take on French things is that the French are not serious people who take themselves too seriously. look at French history...wild enthusiasms resulting, finally, in very little. on the nicer side, there's an element of welcome hypomania in the behavior of French people which I find very attractive.
of course, those wild enthusiasms, coupled with that unserious thing have had some serious (even dire) CONSEQUENCES. think of the many shitshows in the above-mentioned French history. it's not encouraging that they knew Vietnam wasn't going to work out BEFORE we did. it's even less encouraging that we learned nothing from it.
I know that if I suddenly found myself French, the last place I'd wanna be is in POLITICS.