Re:Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost
by conistonwater on Friday December 11, 2015 @06:45PM
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That's a pretty ridiculous ad hominem. You don't seem to even try to engage with the substance of what she's saying.
Re:Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost
by osipov on Friday December 11, 2015 @07:29PM
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Nonsense. My entire argument is about her writing and how it was shaped by her childhood experiences.
Re:Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost
by smikhanov on Friday December 11, 2015 @08:56PM
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While being factually true, that's an incredibly shallow view of her work. It's the same as linking all your sexual preferences to (un)resolved Oedipus complex from your childhood -- it's most likely to be true, but doesn't give you any useful insight into the subject matter.
Re:Svetlana Alexievich Nobel Lecture: On the Battle Lost
by osipov on Friday December 11, 2015 @09:11PM
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>“my politics are closest to that of The Economist newspaper: mildly Libertarian, fiscally conservative, socially liberal where it’s practical and pragmatic, cautiously globalist”.
now everything falls into place: just like The Economist you are also virulently Russophobic
Unfortunately the suffering she went through caused her to have a very negative bias towards the outside world. Her writings are the epitome of depression: imagine a writer describing San Francisco by focusing just on the parts of the Tenderloin district covered in piss. That is pretty much her unique viewpoint on the world and Russia in particular.
Her family has reasons to have gripes against Russians, given that her parents were Ukrainian and Belorussian minorities who suffered disproportionally when they tried to establish independent states. So take her speeches and her writing with a generous dose of salt. She is well known for her agenda and her unhealthy worldview.