Comments on: Anywhere and Everywhere 24/7 http://newmediatheory.net/2009/05/07/anywhere-and-everywhere-247/ McLuhan meets Raymond Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:51:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: admin http://newmediatheory.net/2009/05/07/anywhere-and-everywhere-247/#comment-13675 admin Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:07:24 +0000 http://newmediatheory.net/2009/05/07/anywhere-and-everywhere-247/#comment-13675 As an American I recognize American isolationism, but as an expatriate I often experience the liberal internationalism that endlessly rationalizes Islamic totalitarianism. I don't think you are primarily talking about Lindbergh's isolationism, yet that is related to the European appeasement that paralyzed the West in the thirties in a way eerily similar to our current paralysis. Are you concerned with the kind of isolationism that manifested itself from the right (Pat Robertson) and left (from Michael Moore to John Murtha) over Iraq? Or something else? As an American I recognize American isolationism, but as an expatriate I often experience the liberal internationalism that endlessly rationalizes Islamic totalitarianism. I don’t think you are primarily talking about Lindbergh’s isolationism, yet that is related to the European appeasement that paralyzed the West in the thirties in a way eerily similar to our current paralysis. Are you concerned with the kind of isolationism that manifested itself from the right (Pat Robertson) and left (from Michael Moore to John Murtha) over Iraq? Or something else?

]]> By: SteveSadlov http://newmediatheory.net/2009/05/07/anywhere-and-everywhere-247/#comment-13497 SteveSadlov Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:00:32 +0000 http://newmediatheory.net/2009/05/07/anywhere-and-everywhere-247/#comment-13497 The conformity in a place like San Francisco is all one needs to see, to view this film as highly realistic. However, to be honest, I worry more about isolationism resulting from such views, than I do about a home grown Nazi mania. In the end, the result would be the same, albeit, imposed from without rather than from within. We'd be like the lands conquered by the Third Reich. But the ending would be even sadder, unless someone like India rescued us. The conformity in a place like San Francisco is all one needs to see, to view this film as highly realistic.

However, to be honest, I worry more about isolationism resulting from such views, than I do about a home grown Nazi mania. In the end, the result would be the same, albeit, imposed from without rather than from within. We’d be like the lands conquered by the Third Reich. But the ending would be even sadder, unless someone like India rescued us.

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