[MD] The MoQ and Politics?

[Mary]

Levy makes some points in this interview that resonate with the MoQ...

"... and the role of intellectuals, of writers, should be to cool down this
quantity of hatred."

"The conviction of Houllebecq is, Question, What is society?  Reply, society
is this which prevents artists to exist and to perform.  I'm not completely
in agreement with that, and maybe I convince him a little on that.  That the
situation is not so desperate.   My opinion in the book is that artists are
always stronger than the pack.  Artists, writers, like him or like me,
maybe, are always stronger and survive the mob when the mob is against
them."

But, where does the MoQ come down on this next?

"Houellebecq thinks that a disorder is worse.  I think that injustice is the
worst.  It is two conceptions of the world."

Disorder destroys the Social Level, which the Intellectual needs to survive,
yet injustice will ossify the Social Level and make the Intellectual
impossible in that way too.  Levy frames the debate as though these are the
only two alternatives.  Is there not a third way?  

- M

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January 14th, 2011 Charlie Rose interview with Bernard-Henri Levy,
reproduced in its entirety.  You will not find this in written form
elsewhere.	
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Michel Houellebecq, Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take
on Each Other and the World, Random House, 2011, paperback.