From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed May 28 2003 - 23:37:32 MDT
Ron writes
> lcorbin@tsoft.com writes:
> > Of course, Americans are not free of the same impulses by any
> > means! I think that there was a short stretch of freeway named the "Richard M.
> > Nixon" freeway in southern California, until the Watergate fiasco occurred, and
> > the freeway renamed
>
> Lee,
> That beats me. I can observe the socialist movement attempting to
> relabel the Nazis and Facists as non socialist but news about the California
> Freeway System normally isn't carried in my local papers.
Well, they'll get up to speed eventually ;-)
But seriously, socialists *have* seemed to be more into renaming
things than other people are. But my conjecture still stands:
when the socialists aren't Russian and aren't totalitarian,
then they don't have an urge to rename everything on political
whim that's any greater than normal.
Olga writes
> > Also, perhaps there is something in *totalitarian* thinking---
> > as opposed to merely authoritarian rule---that demands that
> > all associations with the Opposition be expunged. So if we
> > remove the Russian and the totalitarian components of any
> > socialist movement, does what remains have this tendency to,
> > as you write, "relabel anything that becomes unsavory"?
> Er ... Russian? ... er ... totalitarian? ... er ... socialist? ... er ...
What are you driving at? ;-)
> ... remember Enron Field?
Hey, that's done for commercial profit $$$$ Not the same thing at all!
So long as it's part of a wealth-creating advertising budget, I'm all
for it!
> > Of course, Americans are not free of the same impulses by any
> > means! ...
> You got that right!
Yeah, but it's still a f****ing miracle in my book that the J. Edgar
Hoover Building has not yet been renamed!
Lee
P.S. I think that there should be a written (in America) and
and unwritten (elsewhere) rule that nothing can be named for
anyone until they have been safely dead for 100 years.
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