tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33311991.post8200278285615706120..comments2024-01-02T07:48:42.623-05:00Comments on Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales: The Week of July 14 In Review Part 2 of 2Jimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00352163584546054887noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33311991.post-36250773371646370292010-07-26T11:06:13.064-04:002010-07-26T11:06:13.064-04:00Couldn't agree more about Strange Science Fant...Couldn't agree more about Strange Science Fantasy. Great visuals and... good? story.<br /><br />I enjoyed it, but I had to read it three times to make full sense of what was going on. <br /><br />I can't recommend a book in which you look at all the pictures, go back, read all the words, and go back again a third time to read the words and look at the pictures at the same time.<br /><br />It's worth the effort but it's a whole lot of effort.Leenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33311991.post-84782028319762375172010-07-20T08:01:11.735-04:002010-07-20T08:01:11.735-04:00Why shouldn't the Confederacy be viewed in the...Why shouldn't the Confederacy be viewed in the same light as the Nazis? Oh, sure, they had different economic philosophies, with the Confederacy being more or less laissez faire and the Nazis being state guidance/control of privately held industry, but the core thing people do and should remember about both of them is that they viewed other humans as something less than human. <br /><br />That's not an uncommon outlook of various cultures throughout history, but the Nazis and the Confederacy took it to extremes. The former tried to eliminate entire populations it didn't find up to its standard of humanity. The latter was only marginally better in fighting to maintain ownership of the people it found lesser. Sure, the Confederacy didn't try to kill all Africans but that was only because living slaves are a lot more productive than dead ones. It's not like an owner of a slave could be charged with murder for killing a slave. <br /><br />Not even a stranger, for that matter. It would have been the equivalent of today's law where a person is responsible for the value of his neighbor's dog that he killed. Hell, the dog has more rights today than the slave did. A person can be jailed for intentionally killing animals today (for amusement, not for some practical reason like hunting or slaughter).<br /><br />The main difference between the Confederacy and the Nazis, when it comes to dehumanizing, is that the Confederacy has a lot more apologists.Thommnoreply@blogger.com