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Hi, I was looking for a 1935 issue of Monde (review) that appeared between 1928-35 from Paris. Does anyone know if digital copies are available? I was looking for an article written by Maxim Gorky in an issue a month after the International Writers' Congress for Defense of Culture that took place in June, 1935. This article is alluded to by Timothy J. Reiss in a riposte to a letter to editor by Roger Shattuck in a 1993 issue of the MLA journal. https://www.jstor.org/stable/462995 It looks like that Gorky's article has never been translated into English nor got much attention. I do not know the specific issue of the Monde but I guess it would be one in late July or early August 1935. I don't know French myself but if I could get hold of the article I hope I could get somebody's help to know its contents in English. Thanks for any information. -- Narrativist ( talk) 03:00, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
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I didn't check the edit history but the second-to-last word "their" doesn't seem to have a referent in this sentence. Does it refer to a propagandist? Is there a different term to use in a situation where the currently-incumbent mass media (e.g. the state-controlled Soviet media during that era) really is objectively dishonest, which means calling it that is not propaganda? Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA ( talk) 03:54, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Why doesn't green ever appear on the flag alphabet?? Georgia guy ( talk) 14:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
This is green. This is blue. Georgia guy ( talk) 15:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
I'm trying to find some discussion of this, perhaps a book or a name for the concept. For example: hat-wearing among men in the 1960s was in decline. Prior to this date there was a larger hat industry, and it would have been counted when measuring economic activity, so presumably the extensive hat industry was considered to make countries a little bit more wealthy. I mean, if the industry didn't exist, and if all those hatters were just sitting on their hands the whole time, they'd be contributing nothing. Men stopped wearing hats, however, because hats were merely an encumbering decoration. I think it was around this time that women's habitual hat-wearing also declined. I suppose hats had some function as a kind of crude social signalling apparatus, but the public definitely decided they were more trouble than they were worth. So, really, what did the hatters contribute? It seems that they contributed to what we subsequently decided was a mistake, and actually if they'd refused to make hats we might all be "better off" today - I put the phrase in quotes due to difficulty establishing what it means. Then, looking at Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, I see all kind of things which are also of questionable necessity. People like live music, tourism, church congregations, sports, haircuts (this could be a very long list) but do these things do any actual good? It would be wrong and reductionist to say no, yet almost certainly a lot of those things - who knows which - are destined to be given up in the course of progress, just like wearing hats. The story of Ark Fleet Ship B from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe springs to mind at this point: and of course it turned out that the survival of the Golgafrinchans depended on their telephone sanitizers after all. I extrapolate that "economic activity" is a very crude measure of actual wealth (whatever that means), because it's composed entirely out of things which, for all we know, are purposeless and will look foolish tomorrow. Meanwhile, I'm trying to create a toy economy simulation for a computer game, and in order to make it moderately realistic I have to give the simulated individuals preferences for buying things, such as hats (since it should have a historical setting): and much though I would love it to be a kind of beautiful machine like in classical economics, what actually emerges is a big bundle of silly-looking arbitrary desires for things the people don't really need, so that the machine is driven by the arbitrary desires I have put in place - and after all, they're only simulated people and they don't really "need" to exist at all. (Unlike real people, they can't even attempt to solve any problems or feed any creativity through their desires.) I hope that illustrates my confusion. What's the subject that I'm confused about? Card Zero (talk) 18:06, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Do Japanese and Korean citizens, especially younger generations, bother celebrating the Lunar New Year nowadays? I know that the Korean term for the lunar new year is Seollal, and the Japanese people stopped using the Chinese lunisolar calendar as part of the Meiji-era reformations, but I have been told that almost nobody in Korea and Japan really bothers with any festivities that would be associated with the lunar new year or coming-of-spring in recent times, even if they are of partly Chinese descent. Meanwhile, in Vietnam and the Philippines, it is a very big deal. Is it the result of prevailing cultural rivalries, or have people just stopped caring over time as it is no longer seen as relevant to their time or cultural identity (for example, the majority of the Korean populace is devoutly Catholic, so celebrating something commonly associated with traditional Chinese culture has little meaning to them, but this reasoning doesn't hold much ground as the Phillipines populace is also crazy Catholic)? -- 72.234.12.37 ( talk) 23:55, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
North-East Asia is commonly thought of as Greater China, the two Koreas, Japan and perhaps Mongolia. Siberia has 33.5 million people, and the two largest cities are further west than 98% of China's population. Since the topic is culture (and not geography), and particularly lunar new year, there is no reason to consider Siberia at all. It just muddies the intellectual waters. DOR (HK) ( talk) 15:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)
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Hi, I was looking for a 1935 issue of Monde (review) that appeared between 1928-35 from Paris. Does anyone know if digital copies are available? I was looking for an article written by Maxim Gorky in an issue a month after the International Writers' Congress for Defense of Culture that took place in June, 1935. This article is alluded to by Timothy J. Reiss in a riposte to a letter to editor by Roger Shattuck in a 1993 issue of the MLA journal. https://www.jstor.org/stable/462995 It looks like that Gorky's article has never been translated into English nor got much attention. I do not know the specific issue of the Monde but I guess it would be one in late July or early August 1935. I don't know French myself but if I could get hold of the article I hope I could get somebody's help to know its contents in English. Thanks for any information. -- Narrativist ( talk) 03:00, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Redirects to Lying press which starts:
I didn't check the edit history but the second-to-last word "their" doesn't seem to have a referent in this sentence. Does it refer to a propagandist? Is there a different term to use in a situation where the currently-incumbent mass media (e.g. the state-controlled Soviet media during that era) really is objectively dishonest, which means calling it that is not propaganda? Thanks. 2602:24A:DE47:B8E0:1B43:29FD:A863:33CA ( talk) 03:54, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Why doesn't green ever appear on the flag alphabet?? Georgia guy ( talk) 14:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
This is green. This is blue. Georgia guy ( talk) 15:20, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
I'm trying to find some discussion of this, perhaps a book or a name for the concept. For example: hat-wearing among men in the 1960s was in decline. Prior to this date there was a larger hat industry, and it would have been counted when measuring economic activity, so presumably the extensive hat industry was considered to make countries a little bit more wealthy. I mean, if the industry didn't exist, and if all those hatters were just sitting on their hands the whole time, they'd be contributing nothing. Men stopped wearing hats, however, because hats were merely an encumbering decoration. I think it was around this time that women's habitual hat-wearing also declined. I suppose hats had some function as a kind of crude social signalling apparatus, but the public definitely decided they were more trouble than they were worth. So, really, what did the hatters contribute? It seems that they contributed to what we subsequently decided was a mistake, and actually if they'd refused to make hats we might all be "better off" today - I put the phrase in quotes due to difficulty establishing what it means. Then, looking at Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, I see all kind of things which are also of questionable necessity. People like live music, tourism, church congregations, sports, haircuts (this could be a very long list) but do these things do any actual good? It would be wrong and reductionist to say no, yet almost certainly a lot of those things - who knows which - are destined to be given up in the course of progress, just like wearing hats. The story of Ark Fleet Ship B from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe springs to mind at this point: and of course it turned out that the survival of the Golgafrinchans depended on their telephone sanitizers after all. I extrapolate that "economic activity" is a very crude measure of actual wealth (whatever that means), because it's composed entirely out of things which, for all we know, are purposeless and will look foolish tomorrow. Meanwhile, I'm trying to create a toy economy simulation for a computer game, and in order to make it moderately realistic I have to give the simulated individuals preferences for buying things, such as hats (since it should have a historical setting): and much though I would love it to be a kind of beautiful machine like in classical economics, what actually emerges is a big bundle of silly-looking arbitrary desires for things the people don't really need, so that the machine is driven by the arbitrary desires I have put in place - and after all, they're only simulated people and they don't really "need" to exist at all. (Unlike real people, they can't even attempt to solve any problems or feed any creativity through their desires.) I hope that illustrates my confusion. What's the subject that I'm confused about? Card Zero (talk) 18:06, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
Do Japanese and Korean citizens, especially younger generations, bother celebrating the Lunar New Year nowadays? I know that the Korean term for the lunar new year is Seollal, and the Japanese people stopped using the Chinese lunisolar calendar as part of the Meiji-era reformations, but I have been told that almost nobody in Korea and Japan really bothers with any festivities that would be associated with the lunar new year or coming-of-spring in recent times, even if they are of partly Chinese descent. Meanwhile, in Vietnam and the Philippines, it is a very big deal. Is it the result of prevailing cultural rivalries, or have people just stopped caring over time as it is no longer seen as relevant to their time or cultural identity (for example, the majority of the Korean populace is devoutly Catholic, so celebrating something commonly associated with traditional Chinese culture has little meaning to them, but this reasoning doesn't hold much ground as the Phillipines populace is also crazy Catholic)? -- 72.234.12.37 ( talk) 23:55, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
North-East Asia is commonly thought of as Greater China, the two Koreas, Japan and perhaps Mongolia. Siberia has 33.5 million people, and the two largest cities are further west than 98% of China's population. Since the topic is culture (and not geography), and particularly lunar new year, there is no reason to consider Siberia at all. It just muddies the intellectual waters. DOR (HK) ( talk) 15:24, 18 February 2022 (UTC)