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baleanoptera ([personal profile] baleanoptera) wrote2009-10-09 11:16 am
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the peace prize

Hey! The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to give the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama!

Congrats to all the Americans on my flist.
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[identity profile] lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 09:23 am (UTC)(link)
For real?
I love Obama, but I feel like this may be a tad premature.

Of course, if it makes Glenn Beck's head actually explode then the world WILL be a better place.

[identity profile] applegnat.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
What, for not being George W Bush? LOL.

[identity profile] meko00.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Seriously, I hadn't access to any news media this afternoon as I was cooped up in the Humanities lab, so when someone told me I thought it was a joke. I still do. Really. It must be.

But I can kind of sympathise with the idea that a prize should be some sort of symbolical support and a guidance for future work, but really, saying that you want to change things isn't enough. It's like the well-known Cylon plan. Cynical, moi?

[identity profile] meko00.livejournal.com 2009-10-15 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm, for me, it resonates much more to give the prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank or someone like Hammarskjöld (though, giving a Peace Prize posthumously isn't really a guidance for the recipient as such. Of course, as a guidance for others...)

And yes, I think some sort of so-called apolitical level-headedness is a good guidance. I mean, of course we all have strong ideas about how we think life is and/or should be, but if we could all step away from the vitriol a wee bit...

And in reply to the comment on QoT's journal, well, erm, I wouldn't say that the Swedish Academy has been free from controversy. ;-)
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