Comic Book Politics Blog welcomes The Moderate Liberal:
"When discussing politics, ethics or anything of contemporary importance we easily fall into the trap of partisan bickering or steer the discussion in a way that supports our side. Fantasy has always been a useful device to avoid our real-world prejudices and hang-ups. We can't discuss our king or his court objectively, but the king of the Lilliputians is fair game. Our prejudices emerge when discussing the relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, but what about the Klingons and the Federation, will they ever learn to get along? In the year 2004 the United States is a military superpower very much like a superhero (villain?) running around Gotham City. There isn't a country in the world we couldn't destroy if we wanted to, but there are serious limits to that power as well. We can't be everywhere at once. And air power only helps so much in nation building or against insurgents. Nor can Batman stop every crime. With the blog and the power of the internet we can all audit this fun class."
ML hits on one of the reasons that I decided to avoid "real world" books like Palestine, Maus, Safe Area Gorazde, Stuck Rubber Baby, and so on... I didn't want the class to get bogged down in arguing about the real world Palestinian-Israeli conflict rather than focusing on the political ideas being explored in the book via allegory or abstraction to a "safe" fantasy world. Welcome to the class, Moderate Liberal!
And thanks to Neil Alien for pointing some more people this way.
Now if only the students would be as active as the blogosphere on-line...
Now if only the students would be as active as the blogosphere on-line...
Students are weird like that. I've noticed when profs try to get students to interact online for courses, seminars or other projects that is course related--it rarely seems to work, and I'm not really sure why.
Posted by: Jon | January 08, 2005 at 04:26 PM
And thanks to you, Jon, for the motherlode of DKR blog links!
http://silpayamanant.indytron.net/archives/000427.html
Posted by: cpb | January 08, 2005 at 06:41 PM
http://messexxx.info x
Posted by: Nbkvqlx | June 02, 2007 at 10:57 AM