Comments on: Grace McFate: Anthropology, Avatar, and the Human Terrain System in the Italian Press http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/15/grace-mcfate-anthropology-avatar-and-the-human-terrain-system-in-the-italian-press/ Turning and turning in the widening gyre | The falcon cannot hear the falconer | Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold | Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world | The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere | The ceremony of innocence is drowned | The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are full of passionate intensity. -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming Sat, 03 Sep 2011 17:31:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Maximilian Forte http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/15/grace-mcfate-anthropology-avatar-and-the-human-terrain-system-in-the-italian-press/#comment-12102 Sun, 18 Jul 2010 03:11:07 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9836#comment-12102 Great to see you here again Guanaguanare, many thanks for the comment, incisive as usual. Yes, those may have been two of the most outright obscene statements in that article, perfect for the Corriere, and for McFate. If they ever developed any empathy for the resistance (not my enemy), then the only distance they would seek is between themselves and Afghanistan, and go back home. On the other hand, they are probably almost as welcome at home as they are in Afghanistan.

]]> By: Guanaguanare http://zeroanthropology.net/2010/07/15/grace-mcfate-anthropology-avatar-and-the-human-terrain-system-in-the-italian-press/#comment-12093 Sat, 17 Jul 2010 22:33:55 +0000 http://zeroanthropology.net/?p=9836#comment-12093 Just speechless!

“marrying conquest with conscience, evidence of domination and a taste of coexistence…” –Raffaele Oriani

“To go to war you need to develop both empathy and the ability to distance yourself from the enemy.” –McFate

I’ll let Hamlet’s witches respond, “Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

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