artist, warrior, philosopher
I picked up some second hand copies of the New Yorker from my op shop recently. They're all from October/November 2008, so they predate Obama's election, however the analysis is astute enough to know that Obama will be elected and Republican's free market management has failed.
What amused me though was a theatre review of a Scottish theatre troop performing in New York. Their piece was about Scottish veterans of Iraq, a kind of anti war piece that American veterans of Iraq were invited to. The writer of the piece interviewed several of the guys to see how they liked the play, most were positive except for a heavily tattooed guy that questioned the play's premise about the effect of war. He explained that he'd read historical writings about being a renaissance men and explicity chose to join the armed forces so that he could experience being a warrior.
Yep, he'd decided that he needed to be an artist, a warrior and a philosopher and was working his way through each stage. He'd covered being an artist by playing guitar (and the writer confirmed background information that he'd played with Nirvana and other Seattle bands), ticked off being a warrior with his service in Iraq and now, as a returned veteran, he was enrolled in philosophy at Columbia University!
What amused me though was a theatre review of a Scottish theatre troop performing in New York. Their piece was about Scottish veterans of Iraq, a kind of anti war piece that American veterans of Iraq were invited to. The writer of the piece interviewed several of the guys to see how they liked the play, most were positive except for a heavily tattooed guy that questioned the play's premise about the effect of war. He explained that he'd read historical writings about being a renaissance men and explicity chose to join the armed forces so that he could experience being a warrior.
Yep, he'd decided that he needed to be an artist, a warrior and a philosopher and was working his way through each stage. He'd covered being an artist by playing guitar (and the writer confirmed background information that he'd played with Nirvana and other Seattle bands), ticked off being a warrior with his service in Iraq and now, as a returned veteran, he was enrolled in philosophy at Columbia University!
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