Date: 2012-10-04 09:35 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tehomet
I was particularly intrigued by her argument that Bella and Edward were so effective because Meyer split Mary Sue in two, “funnel[ing] each of Mary Sue’s two primary objectives—author insertion and wish-fulfillment—individually into Bella and Edward, respectively.” This makes Twilight the story of two sides of a single being “meeting and attempting to reunite into the whole character they were meant to be,” tapping into primal yearning for integration in readers as well.

Interesting.

It’s hard to pick out the most awful part, but my candidate is the way that USAID repeatedly stopped projects to get Afghan farmers growing cotton—a cash crop that they really could have sold in-country in place of opium poppies—because Afghan cotton might someday, theoretically, compete with American cotton. Because that’s really much more important than cutting off the Taliban’s funding and providing Afghan farmers with a sustainable crop!

That is awful. More subtle than America's actions in, say, Nicaragua or Vietnam, but awful.
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