tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post3193312541459677586..comments2024-02-23T23:53:54.842+09:00Comments on Gusts Of Popular Feeling: Don't Imaginematthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-17400263352213494382012-05-22T23:20:16.025+09:002012-05-22T23:20:16.025+09:00Unfortunately, I just don't have time. I trans...Unfortunately, I just don't have time. I translated almost all of this series more than two months ago, which is the only reason there's as much content on the blog as there is at the moment. Take a look for the non E.S. stuff, and you'll see it's pretty thin on the ground. Hopefully I'll have more time in the near future. <br /><br />As for 'gusts,' they're never entirely ephemeral, are they? There's often something of substance left in their wake. Be they new laws, changed public perception, or empty political promises. Though I'd hope people would notice the posts are dated 2005...matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-33436123475834544922012-05-22T06:19:06.759+09:002012-05-22T06:19:06.759+09:00Sorry. Didn't mean you shouldn't do it. It...Sorry. Didn't mean you shouldn't do it. It's important to chronicle stuff, and you certainly are one of the best when it comes to piecing a story together. <br /><br />I only meant that a downside of this is that it tends to freeze time at a period in the past, and it also tends to highlight people that may not be typical or representative as if they are the dominant discourse. <br /><br />If the world moves on, would we recognize it? Do we let the negative past experiences of others inform our own experiences today and in the future? How valid are the impressions of an obsessedly sexist and racist band of bothers from seven to ten years in a country where, by your own blog title, ephemeral popular gusts are what substitute for public opinion. :)<br /><br />It's an odd phenomenon in South Korea that from the mid-1990s to the present day, life for anglophones has gotten demonstrably far better in virtually all categories except pay, yet the griping seems (perhaps because it's concentrated on the Internet) far worse. (I'm not referring to you, but commenters are some bloggers, but they are citing AES and similar issues.)<br /><br />On pay, the one area where there has been so much stagnation if not outright erosion, there seems to be far less grousing. <br /><br />Anyway, I meant my comment not as a criticism but only as a point I'd wondered about as this series went on, especially as I saw others citing your series as signs of how terrible things are (present). <br /><br />I was hoping to see your take on, say, the accused North Korean spy in the National Assembly and other such things. Or the Japanese consulate trying to block the "Comfort Women" plaque in New Jersey. There's a whole lot of new out there begging for the unique Popular Gusts perspective.kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-88803693277999657642012-05-22T01:36:51.140+09:002012-05-22T01:36:51.140+09:00There's a lot going on with this, well beyond ...There's a lot going on with this, well beyond English teachers, though that's what I imagine you are focusing on. So we shouldn't look at the discourse on 'cyber terror'? Because that's one of the first things I wrote about on this blog, and this incident, timed with the entertainer 'x-file,' ties very closely in with that. And the translations I've put up should help to make clear why it was that some spoiled girl who refused to clean up her dog's shit was eventually far more sympathetic than 'foreigners' cumrags' who dared to be photographed with 'yankees,' harkening directly to U.S soldiers, the misrepresentation of whom by leftist groups has been a concern of yours in the past.matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10296009437690229938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12946845.post-47888523909332910292012-05-21T18:35:44.198+09:002012-05-21T18:35:44.198+09:00While this is interesting, at some point aren'...While this is interesting, at some point aren't you doing the same thing that other groups are doing: rehashing events from years ago in such a way that it artificially seems like the same things were not only commonplace then but also today? <br /><br />Just a thought?kushibohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306033998028548550noreply@blogger.com