"This is the Worst Time for Society to Go on Pscyhopathic Autopilot
Frankie Boyle
My comment:
1. Boyle mixed up Camus and Sartre. Camus actually opposed the independence of Algeria. "As far as Algeria is concerned, national independence is a formula driven by nothing other than passion. There has never yet been an Algerian nation. The Jews, the Turks, Greeks, Italians, or Berbers would be as entitled to claim the leadership of this potential nation. As things stand, the Arabs do not comprise the whole of Algeria … The French of Algeria are also natives, in the strong sense of the word. Moreover, a purely Arab Algeria could not achieve that economic independence without which political independence is nothing but an illusion." (cited by Said, 1993 p 179).
2. Boyle has fallen in the mainstream discourse of "mistakes" made in the foreign policy. History has shown many times that those "mistakes" are a pattern and part and parcel of the functioning of the system domesctically and internationally.
Frankie Boyle
My comment:
1. Boyle mixed up Camus and Sartre. Camus actually opposed the independence of Algeria. "As far as Algeria is concerned, national independence is a formula driven by nothing other than passion. There has never yet been an Algerian nation. The Jews, the Turks, Greeks, Italians, or Berbers would be as entitled to claim the leadership of this potential nation. As things stand, the Arabs do not comprise the whole of Algeria … The French of Algeria are also natives, in the strong sense of the word. Moreover, a purely Arab Algeria could not achieve that economic independence without which political independence is nothing but an illusion." (cited by Said, 1993 p 179).
2. Boyle has fallen in the mainstream discourse of "mistakes" made in the foreign policy. History has shown many times that those "mistakes" are a pattern and part and parcel of the functioning of the system domesctically and internationally.
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