Comments on: Carroll's Lessons in Captivity https://barelyablog.com/carroll%e2%80%99s-lessons-in-captivity-2/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ira Newborn https://barelyablog.com/carroll%e2%80%99s-lessons-in-captivity-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13636 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:44:45 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=256#comment-13636 Ahhh! What a pleasure to read the “Americans in funny costumes” analogy or as I usually say, “Americans in bedsheets.” Of course most people are solipsistic because one has to be thoughtful and somewhat free to realize that there are other cultures and worldviews out there that may be VERY different from ones own and even diametrically opposed.
I wish all of these naive cultural solipsists could be treated to that good old red hot poker of awareness, you-know-where.

]]> By: Stephen W. Browne https://barelyablog.com/carroll%e2%80%99s-lessons-in-captivity-2/comment-page-1/#comment-13635 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:32:47 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=256#comment-13635 I comment on this at greater length on my blog http://rantsand.blogspot.com/
but lo and behold! Jill Carroll has discovered that these people are not Americans in funny costumes. It also looks like she is beginning to suspect that they are really not very nice people at all.

I wonder if it is starting to occur to her that maybe once we could ignore each other when oceans were crossed in wind-driven wooden ships*, but in this day and age it is questionable whether we can share a world in peace.

* Though see books such as
White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam’s One Million White Slaves by Giles Milton
for an idea of how long they have been warring on the West.

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