The obit mentioned his opposition to Bush and Blair but not his support for Milosevic and Castro.
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Humans clearly attend closely to status, an important part of status is dominance, and a key way we show dominance is to tell others what to do. Whoever gets to tell someone else what to do is dominating, and affirming their own status. But we are also clearly built to not notice most of our status moves, and so we attribute them to other motives. And as long as we are making up motives, we might as well make up the most admired of motives, altruism. --Robin Hanson
In obits usually the positive sides are stressed, Gordon.
Only if the deceased are media-approved. Saucy old HP sure was.
I've been on a Pinter binge and just today received the Pinter movie The Birthday Party for Christmas. Happy Birthday, Jesus! Mr Pinter, good luck in the next world.
Awesome, Pete. Thanks for that. I'll watch it all when I'm in front of my own computer.
Wow. Well that took an hour and a half. I actually enjoyed reading No Man's Land myself more than seeing it acted above. Perhaps that's because I had the new West End cast in mind as I read it. But the Google video is worth it for Gielgud's costume and expressions. What a wanker.
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