tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3485868581754530645.post1239153417095283491..comments2023-08-20T04:19:03.941-07:00Comments on Schroedinger's Cat: Richard Rathwell: Canadian and Other Psychic Waste BinsSchroedinger's Cathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00793802498843376596noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3485868581754530645.post-72543854392740319682010-02-09T17:01:24.232-08:002010-02-09T17:01:24.232-08:00As inevitably one of the plague of Canadian Poets,...As inevitably one of the plague of Canadian Poets, I am nonetheless interested in what this piece is getting at, although it never does. Perhaps some more specific examples regarding Canadian culture in parallel with the early Americans. vis-a-vis The Europeans. One of the most apparent examples for me is the mirroring effect in Canadian media, politics and media that reminds me of Derridean paradoxes about the doppelganger trying to fit in with what may be deemed a superlative effort at culture yet while also trying to distinguish oneself as different, as unique, as national.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3485868581754530645.post-20293709004312778332009-05-28T15:35:23.536-07:002009-05-28T15:35:23.536-07:00As editor of this blog, I'd have to defend Rathwel...As editor of this blog, I'd have to defend Rathwell's piece by remarking that it seems to me clearly a kind of playful though angry artifact of nihilism, and is meant to energetically generate questions more than to provide immediate answers. The solution cannot always be developed simultaneously with the statement of the problem,the cure alongside the preliminary diagnosis. More specificity as the argument unfolds in future would help,of course.Schroedinger's Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00793802498843376596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3485868581754530645.post-12090965247072210482009-05-27T05:15:18.404-07:002009-05-27T05:15:18.404-07:00These are interesting nihilistic thoughts, these s...These are interesting nihilistic thoughts, these spittings on the sidewalk. There is insight in them, but they lack respect for those who, like you, are doing what they can. This damnation is revealing, and maybe a step toward help, but they do not provide help. For example:<br /><br />"Writing is often fabliaux masquerading as realism."<br /><br />How do you tell this type of writing from truth? Is writing automatically, ipso facto, a mask for the real? If it looks like a totem of yore, should one automatically and summarily discard it as cartoon? I think not, if you're looking for what the author is trying to say, as I had to do to read you.a deluded commodityhttp://www.poetsagainstwar.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3485868581754530645.post-66243781674408271312009-05-26T11:24:26.905-07:002009-05-26T11:24:26.905-07:00It would be useful, I think, to get a little more ...It would be useful, I think, to get a little more particular. The generalizations--e.g "In Canada art is delusion" probably means something specific to you, but it sounds awfully empty without those references, as if somehow you have mistaken the Plague of Canadian Poets for artists and developed a theory about that.shuffaloffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16500247921235082179noreply@blogger.com