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alexsarllAmong subjects discussed in the pub on the night of January 18th, Massive Ego's fine-but-utterly pointless cover of Animotion's wonderful 'Obsession'. Later, while waiting for the Shiny to finish doing something else, I look (as is my occasional habit) at my journal's archive, checking the same date in previous years - and find myself on January 18th 2005, pondering a pointless cover of Animotion's wonderful Obsession, in that instance by Sugababes. And a year before that, Sugababes provide my Current Music.
If only one could occasionally find these threads in time's spirals as applied to something a teensy bit more useful, eh?
Brilliant documentary rattling around the BBC4 schedules at the moment, called The Barefoot Anthropologist. Presented by an admiring David Attenborough, it concerns the heroically bonkers Tom Harrison. Where many modern 'anthropologists' like to deny that institutional cannibalism ever existed, claiming that our belief in it is only cultural imperialism to justify subjugating native tribes and so on, Harrison instead noted that yes, it did exist, and the real cultural imperialism lay in attempting to stop that. Indeed, at one stage he even resurrected the practice of headhunting in Borneo, supposedly as a tactic against the Japanese during the Second World War, but I suspect largely for the Hell of it. Now that is real cultural sensitivity.
Sounds like a bit of a nightmare to work with, mind. And as one of the founders of Mass Observation he can in some ways be held responsible for modern advertising. But not even the defenders of cannibals are perfect.
Ayaan Hirst Ali's The Caged Virgin is not the best written (or translated?) thing I've ever read on Islam, but given her background (she's a Somali refugee who fled an arranged marriage), it's certainly one of the hardest with which to argue. Even more than Richard Dawkins' similarly flawed-but-necessary The God Delusion has, I hope it becomes part of the mainstream argument, one of those ubiquitous Tube books (Subsection: Not Rubbish). Although, isn't it interesting that (as far as I'm aware) Dawkins doesn't need bodyguards, and none of his collaborators have ever been murdered, even though he certainly doesn't exclude Islam from his criticisms?
Parents legally entitled to extract dead son's jizz, use it to impregnate woman he never met; apparently this is "a boost for family rights" as opposed to, say, incredibly creepy.
If only one could occasionally find these threads in time's spirals as applied to something a teensy bit more useful, eh?
Brilliant documentary rattling around the BBC4 schedules at the moment, called The Barefoot Anthropologist. Presented by an admiring David Attenborough, it concerns the heroically bonkers Tom Harrison. Where many modern 'anthropologists' like to deny that institutional cannibalism ever existed, claiming that our belief in it is only cultural imperialism to justify subjugating native tribes and so on, Harrison instead noted that yes, it did exist, and the real cultural imperialism lay in attempting to stop that. Indeed, at one stage he even resurrected the practice of headhunting in Borneo, supposedly as a tactic against the Japanese during the Second World War, but I suspect largely for the Hell of it. Now that is real cultural sensitivity.
Sounds like a bit of a nightmare to work with, mind. And as one of the founders of Mass Observation he can in some ways be held responsible for modern advertising. But not even the defenders of cannibals are perfect.
Ayaan Hirst Ali's The Caged Virgin is not the best written (or translated?) thing I've ever read on Islam, but given her background (she's a Somali refugee who fled an arranged marriage), it's certainly one of the hardest with which to argue. Even more than Richard Dawkins' similarly flawed-but-necessary The God Delusion has, I hope it becomes part of the mainstream argument, one of those ubiquitous Tube books (Subsection: Not Rubbish). Although, isn't it interesting that (as far as I'm aware) Dawkins doesn't need bodyguards, and none of his collaborators have ever been murdered, even though he certainly doesn't exclude Islam from his criticisms?
Parents legally entitled to extract dead son's jizz, use it to impregnate woman he never met; apparently this is "a boost for family rights" as opposed to, say, incredibly creepy.
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a boost for family rights
Date: 2007-01-19 07:45 pm (UTC)And, er, incredibly creepy.
Re: a boost for family rights
Date: 2007-01-20 09:34 am (UTC)i agree dude!
Date: 2007-02-25 09:50 pm (UTC)Wow, I've found the same to be true too! How did you find that?
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