May. 16th, 2004

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Reading Sy Hersh's new article in The New Yorker is like a flashback to Sophomore Seminar, back at SRC. The description of the neocon reliance on Patai's "The Arab Mind", and the disccussion of said book makes me feel like I'm reading A Passage to India again, and observing the British bafflement with "the Indian mind".

You'd think we'd have passed beyond orientalism and categorizing the "other" as an unfathomable entity by this point.

The East is East, and the West is West, and ne'er the twain shall meet, said Kipling over a century ago, and it's disturbing to find people in positions of power who still hold that worldview.
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Also, as may or may not have been noticed, I think I'm going to start posting some public entries again. I'm in a much better state now than I was when I went secure some months ago.

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