tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post3951684782283578858..comments2024-03-29T01:07:30.224-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Age of Xi JinpingStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-87245221476568629302014-11-03T10:49:41.096-08:002014-11-03T10:49:41.096-08:00Xi will not eliminate corruption. He may well cha...Xi will not eliminate corruption. He may well change it, but no man nor woman has been able to eliminate corruption.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-64578393940959079102014-11-02T11:44:08.434-08:002014-11-02T11:44:08.434-08:00The Chinese regime might have learned this style o...The Chinese regime might have learned this style of the political theater from the French.<br /><br />In France, the elite have long sought to conflate intellectual enlightenment with high office in order to create an atmosphere of divine-right-to-rule. Oh, the splendor of their inscrutable, brilliant ways!<br /><br />Dominique de Villepin comes to mind as a recent example. Remember that smarmy little sonofabitch? He's still around, draping himself in pretense to literature and poetry, and still hoping to one day be president.<br /><br />Anyone new to this style of exquisitely French merde can dip a toe here:<br /><br />According to the introduction, De Villepin's book "listens to the seed of the terrible voice which cleaves our consciences and feeds our imagination ... It tries to penetrate the heart of the poetic ferment, this secret place where words are made and unmade, where language is fashioned." ....<br /><br />"(de Villepin) was Napoleonic in history; he remains Napoleonic in poetry," wrote Jean-Marie Rouart in Le Figaro. <br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/jun/14/featuresreviews.guardianreview7<br /><br />Not thick enough?<br /><br />"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD--or was it the deed? Dominique de Villepin hesitates between Saint John and Doctor Faust. For this French minister of foreign affairs, who arrived at the Quai d'Orsay after the defeat of the left in the spring 2002 elections, the word is deed. One might expect a careful, polished discourse, the usual technocratic jargon, from any civil servant whose career had taken the traditional path of studies--brilliant ones, at that--to Paris's Institut d'etudes politiques (Sciences Po) and the Ecole nationale d'administration (ENA, the prestigious training ground for the country's governing elite, whose graduates are known as enarques). Nothing of the sort from Dominique de Villepin: before being an enarque and a diplomat, he is a poet, a lover of words, a manipulator of lapidary phrases."<br /><br />https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-654731551/dominique-de-villepin<br /><br />Lastangonoreply@blogger.com