Sofismas
¿Que diria Sócrates? Todos esos Griegos eran homosexuales. Menudas fiestecitas que se daban. Seguro que hasta tenian una casita en Creta para pasar el verano. (a) Sócrates es un hombre. (b) Todos los hombres son mortales. (c) Todos los hombres son Sócrates. (d) Todos los hombres son homosexuales. Uh… yo no soy homosexual, pero recuerdo una vez que unos cosacos me piropearon. Debe ser que tengo un cuerpo que excita a ambos sexos. En fin, ya saben, algunos hombres son heterosexuales, algunos son bisexuales, y algunos hombres no piensan en el sexo, y, ya saben… se hacen abogados.
- Woody Allen, en La Última Noche de Boris Grushenko.
Dos meses ojeando un conflicto de décadas, y la muchacha es toda una experta. Birdbrain, nuestra jovencita americana, se lanza ahora a explicarnos por qué apoya a Serbia. La cosa promete: algo que podrÃa responderse en una lÃnea -porque no son musulmanes- tendrá más de una entrega -septiembre, época de fascÃculos, ya saben-. La primera pone el listón alto: (a) Hamás apoya a los albanokosovares (b) EEUU apoya a los albanokosovares, luego (c) EEUU apoya a Hamás. PodrÃa ser perfectamente la conclusión. Apoyamos a gente a la que apoyan nuestros enemigos. ¿No sobrepasa eso los lÃmites de la estupidez?, pregunta.
Eso no sé, hija. Pero alguna otra cosa sà los sobrepasa, sÃ.
Categories: Foolishness, International, Internet
Written By: Syme
Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 01:36 AM
For your reading pleasure, since you seem to be so interested in what I have to say about the Balkans: http://littledoor.blogspot.com/2008/09/book-review-slobodan-milosevic.html
Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 11:10 AM
Oh, don’t be so flattered: my interest is purely a comical one: it does amuse me how some Americans deal with European history. I don’t blame you, though: the study of your own must take… what? three weeks?
Cheers for the link, though I checked it out already -I actually managed to scroll down and read the next entry in your blog, you see-
Now that’s a good one. Keep ‘em coming!
I must point out one thing, though: maybe taking the views of such people as an Orthodox Serb who was spokesman of the Bosnian Serbs in the days of Srebrenica is not the best way of building an objective and unbiased opinion on the subject. Not that you’d be interested, though.
Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 08:44 PM
“Oh, don’t be so flattered: my interest is purely a comical one”.
That was so cruel XP.
Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 08:45 PM
Oh no, you misunderstand me: I wasn’t flattered. I was being sarcastic with what I said in my first comment. I personally am amused by people who blindly go along with the popular view that Serbia is bad, the view propagated by our biased Western media.
I don’t understand what you mean about the way “Americans deal with European history.” Are you saying I haven’t studied the history enough of the subject I blog about? Or do I misunderstand?
With regards to Trifkovic, I would argue that he is a vastly more credible source than the Bosnian Muslims, the Albanians, or those who apologise for Bosnian Muslims and/or Albanians.
Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 09:37 PM
Good God, I have to explain everything… sarcastic? never! What, there’s actually someone out there really interested in anything you may say? Sure.
What I’m saying is pretty obvious: two months reading about the subject -good to see how some Americans haven’t got a clue about a war -one of so many- in which they intervened- and you seem to know sooo much about it. At least enough to go on with that utter rubbish of Serbs are good, Muslims are bad. I mean real bad, man. Or Srebrenica? It’s a hoax, dude! I read it in a book! -That is how you people speak over there, isn’t it?
Also, If you allow me, I’ll give you a little tip that works great when studying History: there ain’t no saints, love. Serbs murdered Bosnians the same way they did Croats. The same way Croats murdered hundreds of thousands of them sixty years ago. With the help of the Catholic Church, by the way. See, that could be your next subject: Catholic Croats murdering Orthodox Serbs in the ’40s. No Muslims around though.
And I must insist: the spokesman of the Bosnian Serb government during 1994-95 is hardly a credible source when commenting on the Srebrenica Massacre, commited by… Bosnian Serbs. In 1995. Don’t you think? See, you don’t have to choose between a Serb spokesman and a Bosnian Muslim. There’s a huge world out there, beyond that. It’s called serious historiography. Go out and embrace it.