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Conservatives and Collegiality
Jan. 9th, 2007 11:00 pmLMAO over this one:
Got a call from Marie, who had just opened up her MacLean's and read all about my brother in law Michael (yeah, CR Michael) and had to call to let me know. I'd heard Maclean's was doing an article, but hadn't seen it, so I went looking online. Didn't find Michael's article (will make sure to pick up a paper copy tomorrow... I feel so retro, buying paper news), but I did find this one instead:
Starting the Revolution Without Us
Americans are being told our country is riding a wave of conservatism. The numbers tell a slightly different story.
Aaron Wherry, Macleans.ca | Updated Monday, January 8, 2007, at 04:33 EST
Almost everyone, at one point or another, says they want a revolution. The reasons for this are obvious: Change is good, complacency is bad, overthrowing the British sounds like fun and so forth. It's hard to argue with the basic concept of revolution.
In Canada, though, we have little actual experience with such stuff. A couple hundred years ago, the Americans politely dropped by and asked if we'd like to take part in their revolution, but we couldn't be bothered. Years later, we experienced a few notable skirmishes, but these were so relatively inconsequential that we now remember them merely as "rebellions."
( In modern times, we've generally kept out of the fray )
Good for a chuckle, if you're familiar Canadian history/politics; probably puzzling if you don't. And BTW, the article sounds a bit like it's making fun of an American who's spouting off nonsense about a country he knows little about, but the laughingstock here is actually a Canadian who'sspouting off nonsense about a country he knows little about expressing views that the author of the article finds amusing.
ETA: BTW, disclaimer here: while I do find the article funny, its contents should be considered the property of the author and Maclean's, and do not necessarily reflect the views of this livejournal ;)
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In other news, I'm having great fun with my Aboriginal Law class, despite the crushing reading load. However.
Attn: Society for the Prevention of Educational Weariness (SPEW), Overused Academic Phrases Division
Please for to be removing the following words/phrases from the lexicon of the English language:
alienating
authenticating
critique
culturalism
dynamism
futuricity
Hegelian
historicity
humanization
manifestation
necessitate
nuanced
transformation
colonization of the mind
and, of course, the perpetually recurring and unconsciously ironic "alienating intellectualism."
Got a call from Marie, who had just opened up her MacLean's and read all about my brother in law Michael (yeah, CR Michael) and had to call to let me know. I'd heard Maclean's was doing an article, but hadn't seen it, so I went looking online. Didn't find Michael's article (will make sure to pick up a paper copy tomorrow... I feel so retro, buying paper news), but I did find this one instead:
Starting the Revolution Without Us
Americans are being told our country is riding a wave of conservatism. The numbers tell a slightly different story.
Aaron Wherry, Macleans.ca | Updated Monday, January 8, 2007, at 04:33 EST
Almost everyone, at one point or another, says they want a revolution. The reasons for this are obvious: Change is good, complacency is bad, overthrowing the British sounds like fun and so forth. It's hard to argue with the basic concept of revolution.
In Canada, though, we have little actual experience with such stuff. A couple hundred years ago, the Americans politely dropped by and asked if we'd like to take part in their revolution, but we couldn't be bothered. Years later, we experienced a few notable skirmishes, but these were so relatively inconsequential that we now remember them merely as "rebellions."
( In modern times, we've generally kept out of the fray )
Good for a chuckle, if you're familiar Canadian history/politics; probably puzzling if you don't. And BTW, the article sounds a bit like it's making fun of an American who's spouting off nonsense about a country he knows little about, but the laughingstock here is actually a Canadian who's
ETA: BTW, disclaimer here: while I do find the article funny, its contents should be considered the property of the author and Maclean's, and do not necessarily reflect the views of this livejournal ;)
In other news, I'm having great fun with my Aboriginal Law class, despite the crushing reading load. However.
Attn: Society for the Prevention of Educational Weariness (SPEW), Overused Academic Phrases Division
Please for to be removing the following words/phrases from the lexicon of the English language:
alienating
authenticating
critique
culturalism
dynamism
futuricity
Hegelian
historicity
humanization
manifestation
necessitate
nuanced
transformation
colonization of the mind
and, of course, the perpetually recurring and unconsciously ironic "alienating intellectualism."
