Comments on: Too early to tell http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/ Life, Culture and Politics from BrisVegas Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:17:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: simply Nepaling http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223874 simply Nepaling Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:21:29 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223874 Gardening by Mao: snip, snip, pluck, dead head, snip, prune, pull out by roots, snip; pass the secateurs please; what IS in that compost bin, Lin Biao?? snip, pluck, prune, trim, lurch; two hundred more shears from that backyard steel plant please; dodder, bullets, trample, snip...... blood and bone: nothing like it, crush, cut,..... Gardening by Mao: snip, snip, pluck, dead head, snip, prune, pull out by roots, snip; pass the secateurs please; what IS in that compost bin, Lin Biao?? snip, pluck, prune, trim, lurch; two hundred more shears from that backyard steel plant please; dodder, bullets, trample, snip…… blood and bone: nothing like it, crush, cut,…..

]]> By: single bullet shot into the back of the head. http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223873 single bullet shot into the back of the head. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:03:02 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223873 No problems - pass the compost please. No problems – pass the compost please.

]]> By: Phil http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223872 Phil Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:56:57 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223872 Um, It's gardening, not Mao, Ok? Um, It’s gardening, not Mao, Ok?

]]> By: pablo http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223871 pablo Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:49:44 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223871 Q & A gives me the shits. When you have Emerson and Stone fraternising on the need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers' money on so- called 'educational' advertising I lose all faith. Q & A gives me the shits. When you have Emerson and Stone fraternising on the need to spend hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money on so- called ‘educational’ advertising I lose all faith.

]]> By: single bullet shot into the back of the head. http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223870 single bullet shot into the back of the head. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:24:12 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223870 "Let a thousand flowers... etc etc" is so often misapplied - I'm not sure that is the intention of Phil's use of this phrase in this thread but the actual meaning is to describe a ploy where you flush out your enemies by encouraging others to speak out about ideas they have to improve a situation and then holding them and their ideas in contempt and it's original user then executed those who spoke out. From Phrase Finder - "Let a thousand flowers bloom is a common misquotation of Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred flowers blossom". This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. The full quotation, taken from a speech of Mao's in Peking in February 1957, is: "Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land." It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime. Whether or not it was a deliberate trap isn't clear but it is the case that many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to Mao were executed. " “Let a thousand flowers… etc etc” is so often misapplied – I’m not sure that is the intention of Phil’s use of this phrase in this thread but the actual meaning is to describe a ploy where you flush out your enemies by encouraging others to speak out about ideas they have to improve a situation and then holding them and their ideas in contempt and it’s original user then executed those who spoke out.

From Phrase Finder – “Let a thousand flowers bloom is a common misquotation of Chairman Mao Zedong’s “Let a hundred flowers blossom”. This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China.

The full quotation, taken from a speech of Mao’s in Peking in February 1957, is:

“Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting progress in the arts and the sciences and a flourishing socialist culture in our land.”

It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime. Whether or not it was a deliberate trap isn’t clear but it is the case that many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to Mao were executed. “

]]> By: adrian http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223869 adrian Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:12:34 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223869 "By the way was it just me that was really annoyed when Emerson chided Pilger for being an expat Aussie who criticised Australia." No. “By the way was it just me that was really annoyed when Emerson chided Pilger for being an expat Aussie who criticised Australia.”

No.

]]> By: Phil http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223868 Phil Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:09:25 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223868 Pilger would never get a gig, heck they sacked Carlton today for refusing to cross the picket. http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24260555-7582,00.html By the way was it just me that was really annoyed when Emerson chided Pilger for being an expat Aussie who criticised Australia. Pilger would never get a gig, heck they sacked Carlton today for refusing to cross the picket.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24260555-7582,00.html

By the way was it just me that was really annoyed when Emerson chided Pilger for being an expat Aussie who criticised Australia.

]]> By: Ambigulous http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223867 Ambigulous Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:06:41 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223867 Chris (a different one): I'm sure you're correct about the current business model. But it was noticeable over the last 2 yerars or so, that "The Age" online site 'headed down market' - I mean that in terms of 'type of story' [tabloid vs serious commentary], rather than in terms of average-income-level-of-readership. Mark B has expressed similar views here on LP. Chris (a different one): I’m sure you’re correct about the current business model. But it was noticeable over the last 2 yerars or so, that “The Age” online site ‘headed down market’ – I mean that in terms of ‘type of story’ [tabloid vs serious commentary], rather than in terms of average-income-level-of-readership. Mark B has expressed similar views here on LP.

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223866 joe2 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:51:23 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223866 Might I just add that if John Pilger, for instance, was given a regular spot in a local paper, circulation would likely increase. Just like left wingish books sell very well, while tired right wing, Costello type books need so much tedious community paid promotion. Might I just add that if John Pilger, for instance, was given a regular spot in a local paper, circulation would likely increase. Just like left wingish books sell very well, while tired right wing, Costello type books need so much tedious community paid promotion.

]]> By: joe2 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223865 joe2 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:09:20 +0000 http://larvatusprodeo.net/2008/08/28/too-early-to-tell/#comment-223865 "In a decent society John Pilger would be a national treasure instead of the semi-outcast he is." He was that good! I just wanted to see and hear more of him on the show but I guess he was given a fair go given the crappy format. “In a decent society John Pilger would be a national treasure instead of the semi-outcast he is.”

He was that good! I just wanted to see and hear more of him on the show but I guess he was given a fair go given the crappy format.

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