Americans Protest NATO'S War in Yugoslavia -- June 5, 1999
[ Home | Contents | Post | Reply | Next | Previous | Up ]
"Our modern revelation may be a depressing revelation, but at least it is a demythologizing revelation. If the world is terrible, at least we know that our fathers were fools to think otherwise, and that everything they believed and cherished was a lie, or at best superstition" (Hilary Putnam, Human Face, p.136).
"If we believe in the creative effect of contact and collision, connection and exchange, then we require a medium, a way of writing which will live with the impact and conflict of communication between ideas" (Myerson, Rhetoric, Reason and Society, 1994:4).
From: voluptuoso@hotmail.com
Date: 11/2/99
Time: 2:21:38 PM
Remote Name: 130.68.51.83
The most shocking thing that i noticed from the film is how the children ended up exposed, through the trail and the media and the attention, to all of the sick and twisted images and ideas that the parents were trying to protect them from. Also, the protection, from the beginning, of the social worker is disgusting. "Professionals" need to state their credentials and motives from the beginning. It just made it sicker that she was romantically involved with the trash reporter...