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Topic History of: Christopher Hitchens
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I have been rather cruel about the late Chris Hitchens but I am sure he would have it no other way....as according to him he has now vanished into complete nothingness and no longer exists in any form whatsoever.....( a concept i find extremely difficult to imagine..like infinity) so I cannot really insult something that no longer exists. Can I? 
or can you insult a memory ?..as that is all he is now 
However his old friend Alexander Cockburn is far more scathing in his criticism..
www.counterpunch.org/2011/12/16/farewell-to-c-h/ |
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Can you believe Hitchens called Orwell his hero? That's such a laugh! Makes you wonder if the guy has ever read anything by Orwell or if he just said that because all the hip kids said they read him. If you want to know what Orwell would have thought of Hitchens, here it is:
The people who write that kind of stuff never fight; possibly they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours. Sometimes it is a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is altering the conditions of war. Perhaps when the next great war comes we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.
-George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia |
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Hitchens did us the favor. You would think for a guy who was supposedly so bright he'd know that smoking and drinking was bad for his health. There was something deeply troubled with the man, that's for certain. He was a narcissistic, war-mongering propagandist. His fake brand of intellectualism appealed mostly to younger idiots. |
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....and watch how the media...very soon..begin to pick apart Hitchens when they recover from their bout of haligraphies ....they are so predictable as JK would know.
a matter of time before the bubble is burst.  |
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more proof that even Hitchen's death has become one of JK's 'great stories" as his elevation to literary sainthood continues: A mediocre speech reported as brilliance :
www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/18/chr...dawkins-award-speech
Christopher Hitchens: one man's service in the war against delusion
I went to Hirchen's last talk at an Aethiest conference in Sydney.... I found him to be pontificating at his best..all presentation but light on actual facts (most of which have been written hundreds of times him before including those in his God Is Not Great book and repeated ad nauseum by Richard Dawkins)...and never engage a room full of athiests in discussion by announcing..as I did..you are a spiritualist..talk about fanatics.
I've got nothing against or for any religion...but man was doing horrible things to each other long before religion came along. And now they do it in all sorts of names..like 'freedom' and 'bringing democracy'.
Yet Hitchens supported one of the worst atrocities in recent times..the war on innocent Iraqis. And it must never be underestimated how important Hitchen's editorial support was.
I also went to Noam Chomsky's talk in Sydney about 6 weeks ago. Hitchens waged an unholy and dishonest war on Chomsky including twisting Chomsky's words to fit Hitchen's false claims about him. Every minute of a Chomsky speech is a 1000 times more illuminating.
Both Dawkins and Hitchens continually avoided one startling fact in their crusade against organised religion : even scientists have to admit that despite their theory that man rose via the ranks from some amoembo swimming in the sea...they still cannot pin point or explain the spark that created life.
They cannot explain it or re-produce it. |
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