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To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (260280)	9/14/2003 9:45:02 AM
From: Box-By-The-Riviera™	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

considering most of it is a re hash of stuff written about 4 years ago here and elsewhere, i tend to agree with you. i've seen no original work, so far. but, hey, he met the great man, so what the heck. he's also a religion extreme-ist, but he's toned that down now that he has a "following." I guess jesus and money commentary don't mix all that well <g>

To: Pogeu Mahone who wrote (260280)	9/14/2003 11:48:13 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Not to mention the fact that he was easily seduced by the "continental patriarch" schtick. Doesn't anyone read Nabokov's Lolita anymore? The book was superficially a demented love story, but was in actuality a brilliant satire of European-American relations, and a depiction of the clash of modernism with postmodernism. JW styles himself as a "maverick" and "iconoclast" but does not seem to understand what these terms mean. How can one be a "maverick" while simultaneously trying to build a following? He is just building a new orthodoxy. He contrasts obese Americans with "physically fit" Europeans, but just a few sentences before he tells us that Marlboro cigarettes are everywhere in France. How many physically fit smokers are there? My thoughts: I think it's clear that obesity in the US is largely a class phenomenon. Obesity has become a marker of membership in the social underclass. In upper-middle class social circles, obesity is very uncommon. But take a quick stroll through Big Lots, where obese people are as ubiquitous as Marlboro Reds in France, and the relationship between obesity and class will become clear. Class is a taboo subject in the US (it's considered "rude" to draw attention to class differences), so this relationship is not widely discussed. Americans are not culturally monolithic. Neither are Europeans. And each culture has something to offer the other. JMHO.