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Re: Why people love Stieg Larsson's Novels

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Post by schwabacher » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

chc wrote: post #19

loewenskind wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're probably wasting your time. The US has its own Steve Jobs-esque distortion field when it comes to politics. I'm not sure the majority of them could ever be educated what "left" and "right" actually mean and you'll certainly never convince them that both their main political parties are actually center right and far right.

This "distortion field" sounds suspiciously like relativity. Are you sure you aren't just declaring your political sphere the center of the universe and labeling anyone who uses a different reference point as a heretic?

It is relativity, but the problem is that most people here don't understand that the parties are center right and far right relative to most other developed countries.

Re: Why people love Stieg Larsson's Novels

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Post by hristov » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 8:14 PM UTC

berntb wrote: post #20

hristov wrote: post #6

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Hmm source? I assume you mean Goran Lindberg, but there is nothing out there about him being reinstated to anything after being convicted. In fact wikipedia says he is in prison right now. How has he been reinstated? I don't know what this has to do with Larsson at all.

Sorry for the late answer, I was busy today and didn't check hn until now, long after it went from the front page. Lindberg was going to be fired because of complaints from the employees -- but he got reinstated, by Bodström himself! That was a few years before the big scandal. That is well known and has been in the major media. Google gave me this link. IIRC, I originally read it in DN or SvD. http://www.expressen.s…

You may be right, I do not speak Swedish, so I cannot read your references. It really depends on how believable the complaints were.

But nevertheless your post was misleading because you made it sound like he was reinstated after the scandal. Also, again I do not really see the connection with the writer Larrson. Just because he is a leftie, he is not responsible for every remotely left wing politician out there.

Re: Why people love Stieg Larsson's Novels

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Post by berntb » Wed, Jan 12, 2011, 8:31 PM UTC

hristov wrote: post #22

berntb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry for the late answer, I was busy today and didn't check hn until now, long after it went from the front page. Lindberg was going to be fired because of complaints from the employees -- but he got reinstated, by Bodström himself! That was a few years before the big scandal. That is well known and has been in the major media. Google gave me this link. IIRC, I originally read it in DN or SvD. http://www.expressen.s…

You may be right, I do not speak Swedish, so I cannot read your references. It really depends on how believable the complaints were. But nevertheless your post was misleading because you made it sound like he was reinstated after the scandal. Also, again I do not really see the connection with the writer Larrson. Just because he is a leftie, he is not responsible for every remotely left wing politician out there.

Try translate.google.com

Ah, you mean it can be read as being reinstated after the crime last year? Sorry for being unclear, I was on the way into meetings.

The connection is that there really was a conspiracy where someone was misusing power and influence -- but it was political influence with a left wing government, because the psychopath claimed to be so politically correct...

Considering that Larsson was too left wing for the normal communist party, that was quite funny.

Edit: To back my claim about Larsson's politics, consider that Larsson was active with Eritrean guerrilla fighters. That regime he supported is much, much worse than even that rapist psychopath of a police chief...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/oct/15/stieg-girls-with...

Re: Why people love Stieg Larsson's Novels

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Post by loewenskind » Thu, Jan 13, 2011, 8:13 AM UTC

chc wrote: post #19

loewenskind wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're probably wasting your time. The US has its own Steve Jobs-esque distortion field when it comes to politics. I'm not sure the majority of them could ever be educated what "left" and "right" actually mean and you'll certainly never convince them that both their main political parties are actually center right and far right.

This "distortion field" sounds suspiciously like relativity. Are you sure you aren't just declaring your political sphere the center of the universe and labeling anyone who uses a different reference point as a heretic?

Wait, what? I'm declaring the rest of the world the "center of the universe" and labeling the one (first world) place that uses a drastically different reference point as wrong.