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19 september 2006, 22:35 | #1 |
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The first duty of the intellectual in Belgium is not to state the obvious but to avoid it.
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"In Brussels, which somehow manages to combine the grayness of bureaucracy with the gaudiness of modern popular culture's worst aspects, I stayed in a hotel among whose amenities was 24-hour access to pornography. Thus were freedom of expression and my human rights protected at the same time. In my hotel room was also a copy of The Golden Book of Belgium 2001. Perhaps the intervening years had not been so golden. The Golden Book of that year, however, was dedicated to the place of women in Belgium [...] Walking through the city center, littered and crumbling, I was invited into several sex shows by men who did not easily take no for an answer. Drunks were sleeping in doorways, and very large numbers of male youths loitered with goodness knows what [...] A very large proportion of the loiterers were Moroccan in origin, dressed in the international uniform of the modern slum. They seemed drawn to this seedy environment as flies to a carcass. It took me a few moments to realize that not a single woman of Moroccan origin was to be seen there. Where were they, the women of Moroccan origin? What was their place in Belgian society? [...] The answer was evident in the morning, after the sun came up. Large numbers of women of Moroccan women, dressed in a non-European way, were in the streets, as if a nocturnal curse had lifted. [...] >>>> One of the reasons The Golden Book did not ask the question was that the authors might have been prosecuted had they done so. The first duty of the intellectual in Belgium is not to state the obvious but to avoid it. Perhaps Belgium is in the European vanguard, which is why it is such a suitable choice for the capital of Europe. <<<< (http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2006-09-19td.html hat tip: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1356) mvg, H.M. |
19 september 2006, 23:45 | #2 |
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Re: The first duty of the intellectual in Belgium is not to state the obvious but to avoid it.
<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] oups.com... > Quote: > Wederquote. "Are you aware of the discovery in the human body of a nerve that connects the eyeball to the asshole? It is called the 'anal optic' nerve. It is responsible for giving people a shitty outlook on life. If you don't believe me, pull a hair from your ass and see if it doesn't bring a tear to your eye." Iska |
20 september 2006, 10:25 | #3 |
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Re: The first duty of the intellectual in Belgium is not to state the obvious but to avoid it.
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:39:21 +0200, Iskarioth wrote:
> <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] oups.com... >> Quote: >> > > Wederquote. > "Are you aware of the discovery in the human body of a nerve that connects > the eyeball to the asshole? It is called the 'anal optic' nerve. It is > responsible for giving people a shitty outlook on life. If you don't believe > me, pull a hair from your ass and see if it doesn't bring a tear to your > eye." YAY! That's being wild like a taliban. |