Mojich 10 + 1

Lemuel to spustil, tak ja ako spravny knihomol sa musim pripojit.

Cize co ma napadlo bez akehokolvek poradia (a v originalnom zneni v akom to bolo citane;):

George Orwell - 1984
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Die Leiden des jungen Werthers
Franz Kafka - Der Prozess
Franz Kafka - Das Schloß
Ivan Horvath - Vizum do Europy (vyber z diela)
Henry Kissinger - Umeni diplomace
Michail Bulgakov - Majster a Margareta
Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels
Irving Stone - Smad po zivote
Irving Stone - Grecky poklad
Robert Kagan - Of Paradise and Power

Goethe (nezmyselne prelozene do slovenciny ako utrpenie, najma ked sa jedna o utrpenia) prisiel ku mne v takom tom spravnom okamihu a najma upozornenie na pociatku bolo v tom case pre mna dolezite:

"Und du, gute Seele, die du eben den Drang fühlst wie er, schöpfe Trost aus seinem Leiden, und laß das Büchlein deinen Freund sein, wenn du aus Geschick oder eigener Schuld keinen nähern finden kannst!"

Ivan Horvath dozijuc sa vdaka oblubenosti vsetkych "slovenskych" rezimov 56 rokov patri podla mna medzi najvyznamnejsich slovenskych autorov - zial venuje sa mu 1 stranka v stvrtom rocniku strednej skoly .... ked som ho prvykrat cital, tak som vobec neveril ze nieco take mohol napisat Slovak .... ak by mala cela slovenska literatura zaniknut a mal by som si vybrat jedneho autora, ktory by mal byt zachovany bol by to on.

Guliverove cesty povazovane niekym za rozpravku su podla mna ten najzabavnejsi a najsarkastickejsi roman aky som kedy cital (btw nema niekto film od Juracka - Pripad pro zacinajiciho kata? Obetujem zanho aj oblicku)

Irvingove biografie boli inspirujuce z viacerych dovodov - jedna mi otvorila cestu k impresionizmu cez Vincenta Van Gogha a druha ma uplne dostala do greckej mytologie - Schliemann - dokonca az tak ze som si z Univerzitky pozical Ilias ktory mohol citat Schliemann - vydanie z 18. storocia po nemecky v schwabachu - zial zvladol som len prvy spev/knihu.

Kagan je neocon najhrubsieho zrna, spoluzakladatel nenavideneho Project for the New American Century autor tezy, ze "Americania su z Marsu a Europanie z Venuse", autor clanku v Policy Review (na zaklade ktorej napisal tuto knihu), ktora vyvolala burlivu diskusiu na oboch stranach Atlantiku, velka inspiracia pre moju diplomovku a poslednych rokov mojho studia.

Inych 10: Lemuel, dušk.o., Upiiirka, Lafcadio, A I F, Juraj Lörinc, FanaticGay.

Konflit medzi elitami a populistami v Strednej Europe

"On the same day that Fico formed his government, the Slovak constitutional court announced that a Slovak citizen had filed a suit demanding that the court annul the results of the election. The claimant declared that the Slovakian Republic had failed to create a "normal" system of elections and had therefore violated Slovak citizens' constitutional right to be governed wisely. In the eyes of the claimant, any electoral system that could bring to power as motley a crew as the new Slovak government could not be called "normal".

The lone Slovak claimant had a point. The right to be governed wisely can contradict the right to vote. This is traditionally what makes liberals nervous about democracy. One might almost say that the Slovak citizen was a reincarnation of the influential nineteenth-century liberal François Guizot (1787-1874).

It was Guizot and his colleagues, "the doctrinaires", who used all their eloquence to argue that democracy and good governance can coexist only under a regime of limited suffrage. In their view, the real sovereign is not the people but reason. Thus, voting should be discussed in terms of capacities rather than rights. In the nineteenth century, capacity was translated as property or education; only those with the right education or enough property could be trusted with the power to vote. Today, nobody would dare to argue for restricting voting rights."

Povodne precitane: SME Forum 11/11/2007

Cely clanok od Ivana Krasteva sa da precitat tu.

Poznamka na okraj - liberalizmus sa tu chape v jeho klasickom vyzname.

Ako si pokazit obed (update)

Dnes som spravil tragicky omyl.

Kedze vdaka rozhodnutiu hejslovackej Rady pre vysielanie a retransmisiu o zruseni BBC nemam co v radiu pocuvat, rozhodol som sa dnes zapnut z mojich koncesionarskych poplatkov a dani plateny Slovensky rozhlas. Konkretne relaciu Sobotne dialogy s poslankynou Smeru Janou Valovou.

Boli tam aj ini ucastnici diskusie, ale hlavnym akterom bola tato byvala vestkyna a majitelka salonu krasy. Podla vlastnych slov vybrata do SMERu pre svoju vyrecnost a energickost.

Nuz Valovej vyrecnost dava novy zmysel vyrazu duckspeak.

Ak by este Orwel zil, urcite by sa potesil dovedeniu k dokonalosti jeho myslienky z 1984:

"Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher brain centres at all."

Jeden priklad pre vsetky - toto je odpoved na otazku moderatora, ci ma Socialna poistovna dlhodobe riesenie svojej zadlzenosti, kedze Valovej zakon hasil zadlzenost z kratkodobeho hladiska:

"Urcite su modely......momentalne sa .. su tam tie modely ale nie som s nimi oboznamena, ale ked sme sa na tu temu bavili tak bolo mi povedane, ze urcite Socialna Poistovna tuto, tuto vec zvladne bez problemov, bez problemov...."

Celu relaciu si mozno vypocut tu.

Este jednej veci nerozumiem. Leaders.sk uvadzaju ze ma ukoncene stredoskolske vzdelania (pouzite udaje z NRSR) ale ona tvrdi v rozhovore na SME.sk ze bakalarske.

Netvrdim, ze minula vlada bola nejaka skvela a dokonca strana, ktoru som v tomto obdobi volil je uz od volieb iba sklamanim ale teraz nam vladne uplna luza najhorsieho kalibru.

Foto: SMER

Update: Lemuel ma tiez trosku k tomu co dodat.