On flags and fascists

ere I come back to Gordon Brown’s explicit suggestion to achieve a new harmonious order under the flag of a unified British national identity.

The patriotic predicament, British style

This is about the sheer futility involved in the attempts at developing a new, as it were, minority-led, ‘progressive’ and ‘alternative’ yet still grand-national British patriotic predicament by the very ‘secular’, ‘liberal’, ‘cosmopolitan’ and ‘unprejudiced’ representatives of the British ethnic minorities themselves (Afro-Caribbean, Muslim…). The clip below offers a possible way of linking the particular and the universal. 

Ugly ogres: beware of beautiful voices talking on your behalf

We keep on with Jonathan Swift who in this piece is shortcircuited with Shrek 2. Find also a very short clip where Richard Rorty gives his opinion on the topic of Truth.

Postmo mongrels

It is not just that all this ‘ethnic’ thing does get to me, really; it is also that then, we still must play the multicultural postmo game to be somehow trendy and ‘right on’. No way! Check the clip. Ok: terrific fusion food but not my cup of tea. American kids in traditional Basque rustic cloths together with a pinch of authentic black radical Jamaican reggae salt is definitely not good grazing.