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But I still lack bread.
I think that French people are hardwired to be suspicious of the government. Germanic tribes, kings, the Revolution, Chirac and Sarkozy. Don't get me wrong, it's not like they don't have a stable government (unemployment is kind of a problem, but when is it not?), I just feel like they distrust it. At the same time, I feel like there is a subconscious movement to be defensive about their national icons as well.
For example, Voltaire wrote a book called The Bible Finally Explained. Someone remarked, in class today, how presumptious it was, and the prof. blames it, more or less, on Louis XV. While there may be some truth in that, why not go ahead and admit that Voltaire was a raging atheist and huge advocate of the separation of church and state? What, Southerners in your French lit. class may not like it? Come on. Which leads me to remark that I wish I could discuss the works a little more analytically. I know that's not entirely the point of the class, but I feel like most of my classmates simply don't get it, because we're too vague. If not for 360 last year, I'd be very upset with these vagaries. Then again, I'm inherently a scholar, so that kind of gets my motor going.
For future reference, Agent Orange, after napalm and, you know, the fucking H-bomb, is probably the worst thing we've ever done to a country.
I think it might be because I'm close to finishing FFIX, but I'm starting to get this urge to get a bunch of old RPGs and play them. Like, the classics. FFI, IV, VI, VIII, Tactics,Suikoden, Chrono Trigger/Cross again. I also want my FFOrigins disk back from Shane. Good fucking luck with that one. I also want this
I think that French people are hardwired to be suspicious of the government. Germanic tribes, kings, the Revolution, Chirac and Sarkozy. Don't get me wrong, it's not like they don't have a stable government (unemployment is kind of a problem, but when is it not?), I just feel like they distrust it. At the same time, I feel like there is a subconscious movement to be defensive about their national icons as well.
For example, Voltaire wrote a book called The Bible Finally Explained. Someone remarked, in class today, how presumptious it was, and the prof. blames it, more or less, on Louis XV. While there may be some truth in that, why not go ahead and admit that Voltaire was a raging atheist and huge advocate of the separation of church and state? What, Southerners in your French lit. class may not like it? Come on. Which leads me to remark that I wish I could discuss the works a little more analytically. I know that's not entirely the point of the class, but I feel like most of my classmates simply don't get it, because we're too vague. If not for 360 last year, I'd be very upset with these vagaries. Then again, I'm inherently a scholar, so that kind of gets my motor going.
For future reference, Agent Orange, after napalm and, you know, the fucking H-bomb, is probably the worst thing we've ever done to a country.
I think it might be because I'm close to finishing FFIX, but I'm starting to get this urge to get a bunch of old RPGs and play them. Like, the classics. FFI, IV, VI, VIII, Tactics,Suikoden, Chrono Trigger/Cross again. I also want my FFOrigins disk back from Shane. Good fucking luck with that one. I also want this