1/10/2023 0 Comments Chinese linguist jobs![]() ![]() ![]() Enough media reports have confirmed this. The Chinese government has incarcerated hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians. Unfortunately, in both cases, the facts seem to be true. If the reports are true, the American government has tortured or killed thousands of innocent Muslim civilians since September 9, 2011. In the same way, readers put up with unintelligibility, obsessiveness, painful truths, lies, bad grammar-if, in compensation, the writer allows them to savor rare emotions and dangerous sensations.īut which country treats innocent Muslim civilians better? America or China? If the reports are true, the Chinese government has incarcerated hundreds of thousands of innocent Muslim civilians in reeducation camps. Notoriously, women tolerate qualities in a lover-moodiness, selfishness, unreliability, brutality-that they would never countenance in a husband, in return for excitement, an infusion of intense feeling. There are other writers in whom one prizes the gifts of a lover, gifts of temperament rather than of moral goodness. Albert Camus, at the time beginning his posthumous descent from Nobel laureate and existentialist martyr into the high school curriculum (which is where I found him), is named the “ideal husband of contemporary letters.” It isn’t really a compliment: Some writers supply the solid virtues of a husband: reliability, intelligibility, generosity, decency. In the chapter of Against Interpretation called “Camus’ Notebooks”-originally published in The New York Review of Books- Sontag divides great writers into “husbands” and “lovers,” a sly, sexy updating of older dichotomies (e.g., between Apollonian and Dionysian, Classical and Romantic, paleface and redskin). This and so many more tricks of language are what de Waal has termed “linguistic castration.” The way we use our tongues to disempower animals, the way we invent words to maintain our spot at the top. If an animal can beat us at a cognitive task-like how certain bird species can remember the precise locations of thousands of seeds-they write it off as instinct, not intelligence. They call “kissing” in chimps “mouth-to-mouth contact” they call “friends” between primates “favorite affiliation partners” they interpret evidence showing that crows and chimps can make tools as being somehow qualitatively different from the kind of toolmaking said to define humanity. Scientists, de Waal points out, can be some of the worst offenders-employing technical language to distance ourselves from the rest of the animals. The famous primatologist Frans de Waal, of Emory University, says this is something humans do all the time-downplay similarities between us and other animals, as a way of maintaining our spot at the top of our imaginary ladder. ![]()
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