tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post8446520325690680930..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Susan SontagBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-9546602672202623442008-11-07T02:25:00.000+00:002008-11-07T02:25:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-66687338582545491002008-11-03T05:00:00.000+00:002008-11-03T05:00:00.000+00:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-30921141687902409642007-03-18T20:32:00.000+00:002007-03-18T20:32:00.000+00:00There probably is a degree of truth in your analog...There probably is a degree of truth in your analogy, Brit, but to give my own ill-thought out version of it, the wave of globablisation can certainly swamp and drown the rock pools of the individual cultures with its mono-culture. Too lazy to try and think about it right now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-61140824051870525422007-03-18T12:11:00.000+00:002007-03-18T12:11:00.000+00:00I'm not sure if this is exactly what Bryan is sayi...I'm not sure if this is exactly what Bryan is saying, but my view is that while there is a trend towards a global monoculture - mostly, but not exclusively Americanisation (because mostly globalisation is about allowing individuals to choose, and since some things do seem to be universal, choice pushes them to the top)- local diversity will always then modify it. Globalisation is like a big waveBrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-5259112598156311752007-03-17T18:00:00.000+00:002007-03-17T18:00:00.000+00:00Settings, accents, topical concerns must be local ...Settings, accents, topical concerns must be local (how can they be otherwise? Things happen in a partic. place to partic. characters); it's the emotions readers bring to the stories that are universal. And not just universal, but time-transcending. I can read an essay by Montaigne, a story by Marguerite de Navarre, or part of Ben Franklin's autobiography and feel what each writer felt, even Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-49313626638976939032007-03-17T16:49:00.000+00:002007-03-17T16:49:00.000+00:00Dave, thanks for a characteristically learned comm...Dave, thanks for a characteristically learned comment. The paradox of culture is that it must be local and, in being successfully so, must be global. Flaubert could only be French but, by being so, he became universal. I think Sontag is right to identify the problem of the destruction of the local by globalisation as an enemy of literature. But she perhaps goes a little too far. The local - as inBryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.com