Trying to get some ideas to write an assignment about post-structuralism and hermeneutics, but not getting anywhere. Been reading about it for two days and don't understand much. In order to understand Gadamer (who developed a more traditional hermeneutics) I have to understand Heidegger who is not an easy philosopher and also on the post-structuralists side I have to understand Derrida (deconstruction) :(
Right now I am feeling hopeless and don't understand much but...
I will post the assignment here but I have no idea if I will be able to finish it.
p.s I am not even enjoying Easter.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Michael Moore
I wrote this email to Michael Moore, I really hope he reads it and replies even though it says in his website that he receives thousands of emails:
Hi Michael Moore,
I hope you will read this because I want to correct you on the issue of Kosova that you addressed in your documentary "Bowling for Columbine". I enjoy your movies, and I think that what you are doing for your country is wonderful. I wish I had your talent to do the same for my small country with lots of problems called The Republic of Kosova (two years ago we declared independence).
In your movie you say that America bombed and killed civilians. This is what happened:
We had a war here during the 1999 and it was horrendous, civilians were massacred (three of my classmates from high school) and houses burned and a 800 000 people (in a country of two million people) had to leave their homes or be murdered (me and my family were among them). I still can't believe I survived. But all that didn't happen because of either USA or NATO (as you, using Serbian sources portray in your documentary). A person like you shouldn't use Serbian national TV as a source. They were used by the then president Milosevic and what they put there was to convince their people that what was happening in Kosova was America's fault. It was not, USA saved us and we are eternally grateful. I have no idea what is happening in Iraq or other places but I am just addressing the issue of Kosova since I was there when it all happened.
A books that can be useful for you if you want to know more about Kosova's history is http://www.amazon.com/Kosovo-Short-History-Noel-Malcolm/dp/0330412248/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268141364&sr=1-2-spell.
If you don't have time for a history book then a short article in times will do just fine: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3037002.ece.
As you can see these are British sources, not Albanian nor Serbian. They both can be biased, right? So please next time do not use biased sources that are used to manipulate people like the Serbs in Serbia and on the way managed to manipulate an American also. It would be a shame if they succeed.
Regards,
Shkurte
Hi Michael Moore,
I hope you will read this because I want to correct you on the issue of Kosova that you addressed in your documentary "Bowling for Columbine". I enjoy your movies, and I think that what you are doing for your country is wonderful. I wish I had your talent to do the same for my small country with lots of problems called The Republic of Kosova (two years ago we declared independence).
In your movie you say that America bombed and killed civilians. This is what happened:
We had a war here during the 1999 and it was horrendous, civilians were massacred (three of my classmates from high school) and houses burned and a 800 000 people (in a country of two million people) had to leave their homes or be murdered (me and my family were among them). I still can't believe I survived. But all that didn't happen because of either USA or NATO (as you, using Serbian sources portray in your documentary). A person like you shouldn't use Serbian national TV as a source. They were used by the then president Milosevic and what they put there was to convince their people that what was happening in Kosova was America's fault. It was not, USA saved us and we are eternally grateful. I have no idea what is happening in Iraq or other places but I am just addressing the issue of Kosova since I was there when it all happened.
A books that can be useful for you if you want to know more about Kosova's history is http://www.amazon.com/Kosovo-Short-History-Noel-Malcolm/dp/0330412248/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268141364&sr=1-2-spell.
If you don't have time for a history book then a short article in times will do just fine: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article3037002.ece.
As you can see these are British sources, not Albanian nor Serbian. They both can be biased, right? So please next time do not use biased sources that are used to manipulate people like the Serbs in Serbia and on the way managed to manipulate an American also. It would be a shame if they succeed.
Regards,
Shkurte
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