Daniel Pipes
Look, I enjoy a bit of orientalism as much as the next guy, but this is just amazing:
We have colonized the Oriental superego. They pacify their wild, animalistic urges with our clever music. That's some serious Manchurian Candidate shit.
From Daniel Pipes.
In contrast, the Turkish authorities, marching to a different drummer as is so often the case, rely on classical music to quiet their forces. The so-called "Steel Force" units, the baton-swinging riot police notorious for their tough tactics against street protesters, are forced to listen to Mozart and Beethoven in their buses on the way to operations as a way to calm them down.
We have colonized the Oriental superego. They pacify their wild, animalistic urges with our clever music. That's some serious Manchurian Candidate shit.
From Daniel Pipes.
posted by Austin 5-000 at 2:53 AM
2 Comments:
Also very peculiar about turkey's adoption of Western secularism, I was just listening on the BBC that UNESCO gave the whirling dervish ceremony masterpiece or something status, but the actual religion was banned publicly by Attaturk himself. All current performers of the whirling dervish ceremony are (merely) paid civil servants. Is this the extent of humanism? Culture can only be recognized as aesthetic practice and not real belief?
I don't get your point.
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