Western Resistance

This site is a satire right?

You really got that 'paranoid, living in a hole ,no clue about the world around me even as I call everyone else an idiot conservatism' down pat.

Almost a Powerline level of stupidity - well done!

My sincere apologies elemental. I now see the error of my ways. From now on, I will exert myself to the fullest in an attempt to reach your level of rational discourse.

What bothers me about this entry is that you have obviously never deigned to actually see any of Pinter's plays on the stage. Or, at least that's the vibe you exhude from what is written here. What is it with people like you? How does being opposed to war, or an administration = hating America? And, how does a great writer getting an award = "Slapping America". Why is everything about attacking, or blaming, or "slapping", or any other "ing" America?

Everyone's a critic, but this goes too far.

Chopper;

If you read the entry correctly you will notice I criticize the Nobel Academy, not Pinter. (Pinter deserves criticism on other grounds.) For all I know, he's a great playwright. But he was given the Nobel for his politics, not his writings. I had come to expect this from the Nobel Peace Prize, but the Nobel Prize in Literature? It is a little too much.

At any rate, if you guys reading this entry can take a wingnut's word for it, do read the BBC link I provide--they are not wingnuts as well, are they?

Well I REread the BBC link you provided, and this part realy stood out...

"Indeed, the Nobel academy's decision could be read in some quarters as a selection with an inescapably political element.

"There is the view that the Nobel literature prize often goes to someone whose political stance is found to be sympathetic at a given moment," said Alan Jenkins, deputy editor of the Times Literary Supplement.

...

However, Mr Jenkins insists that, though Pinter's political views may have been a factor, the award is more than justified on artistic criteria alone.

"His dramatic and literary achievement is head and shoulders above any other British writer.

"He is far and away the most interesting, the best, the most powerful and most original of English playwrights."

So, no, he didn't on his politics alone. You simply chose to see it that way. So, I repeat, you went too far.

Just to add fuel to the fire - I never saw Pinter as anti-American in any way. He came from a poor Jewish backgrund, educated at Downs School in Hackney, and has transcended his lowly upbringing to fulfil the American Dream in many ways.

On his plays, he is a bit intellectual for me - I prefer more lowlife theatrical entertainment. But as a person, and basing my knowledge of him from his other written work and interviews, I have a lot of respect for him. I also hope he has beaten the cancer from which he was recently suffering.

Chopper;

I disagree, but I'm glad you took the time to form your opinions. You are wrong, though, in assumming my opinions were rashly taken.

Giraldus;

Read this, though: The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal (by Harold Pinter).

Earlier this year, I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive.

However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever known effectively waging war against the rest of the world.[...]

I must admit, however, that's one of the best lunatic anti-American rants I've ever read, even though that was from a public speech: the man can write.

"or all I know, he's a great playwright. But he was given the Nobel for his politics, not his writings"

How can you say this without knowing his plays?

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