There have been many posts I tried to put on the garylsnyder webpage. There's no vulgarity, no name calling. However, there is one thing in my post that I think Snider has started to disallow - the truth.
I keep thinking of this scene from Schindler's List:
Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Amon Goeth: You think that's power?
Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk.
Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power.
For those who might not have seen this movie, Goeth is a colonel and supervisor of a concentration camp. He derives a perverse sense of power by killing Jews at his whim.
I wonder if Snider doesn't derive that same sense of perverse power as supervisor of his website.
Later in the movie after the dialog above, Goeth tries to hold back his anger and not kill a small boy who cannot get the stains out of his bathtub. He let's the boy go... and for a moment feels the real power Schindler was mentioning. However, his subversive emotions control him, and he shoots the boy with a high power rifle, but not after shakily missing him twice. You can see Goeth struggling when he realize the truth:
He is in fact very weak.
I keep thinking of this scene from Schindler's List:
Oskar Schindler: Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't.
Amon Goeth: You think that's power?
Oskar Schindler: That's what the Emperor said. A man steals something, he's brought in before the Emperor, he throws himself down on the ground. He begs for his life, he knows he's going to die. And the Emperor... pardons him. This worthless man, he lets him go.
Amon Goeth: I think you are drunk.
Oskar Schindler: That's power, Amon. That is power.
For those who might not have seen this movie, Goeth is a colonel and supervisor of a concentration camp. He derives a perverse sense of power by killing Jews at his whim.
I wonder if Snider doesn't derive that same sense of perverse power as supervisor of his website.
Later in the movie after the dialog above, Goeth tries to hold back his anger and not kill a small boy who cannot get the stains out of his bathtub. He let's the boy go... and for a moment feels the real power Schindler was mentioning. However, his subversive emotions control him, and he shoots the boy with a high power rifle, but not after shakily missing him twice. You can see Goeth struggling when he realize the truth:
He is in fact very weak.
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