V: Ah, I was forgetting that we are not properly introduced. I do not have a name. You can call me V. Madam Justice...this is V. V... this is Madam Justice. hello, Madam Justice.
Justice: Good evening, V.
V: There. Now we know each other. Actually, I've been a fan of yours for quite some time. Oh, I know what you're thinking...
Justice: The poor boy has a crush on me...an adolescent fatuation.
V: I beg your pardon, Madam. It isn't like that at all. I've long admired you...albeit only from a distance. I used to stare at you from the streets below when I was a child. I'd say to my father, "Who is that lady?" And he'd say "That's Madam Justice." And I'd say "Isn't she pretty."
V: Please don't think it was merely physical. I know you're not that sort of girl. No, I loved you as a person. As an ideal.
Justice: What? V! For shame! You have betrayed me for some harlot, some vain and pouting hussy with painted lips and a knowing smile!
V: I, Madam? I beg to differ! It was your infidelity that drove me to her arms!
V: Ah-ha! That surprised you, didn't it? You thought I didn't know about your little fling. But I do. I know everything! Frankly, I wasn't surprised when I found out. You always did have an eye for a man in uniform.
Justice: Uniform? Why I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. It was always you, V. You were the only one...
V: Liar! Slut! Whore! Deny that you let him have his way with you, him with his armbands and jackboots!
V: Well? Cat got your tongue? I though as much.
V: Very well. So you stand revealed at last. you are no longer my justice. You are his justice now. You have bedded another.
Justice: Sob! Choke! Wh-who is she, V? What is her name?
V: Her name is Anarchy. And she has taught me more as a mistress than you ever did! She has taught me that justice is meaningless without freedom. She is honest. She makes no promises and breaks none. Unlike you, Jezebel. I used to wonder why you could never look me in the eye. Now I know. So good bye, dear lady. I would be saddened by our parting even now, save that you are no longer the woman I once loved.
*KABOOM!*
-"V for Vendetta"
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Date: 2008-09-03 10:56 pm (UTC)Let's just say, apart from NZ, we're the odd ones out in the region, and we're a living reminder of the colonial past.
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:00 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:51 am (UTC)Paranoid is in the eye of the beholder. I don't think it was a paranoid discussion.
As for you last comment, I see you equate Nazi Germany with occidental culture?
That's quite strange...
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Date: 2008-09-04 05:57 am (UTC)Privy, you're saying Germany isn't part of the Occident? Or that the Nazi super-race theory isn't a part of Western civilization?
Basically... err, why do you say that?
Japan, for all that it is different from the continental Asian countries is still very Oriental, wouldn't you say? They had a super-race theory as well, you know.
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:03 am (UTC)The Aryan super-race theory is, what, 200 years old?
My roots, at least, are considerably older than that.
I don't understand what your point about Japan means.
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 06:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 06:11 am (UTC)In what sci-fi book/movie/series are the younger races EVER appreciate towards the older, wiser ones?
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:14 am (UTC)My point about Japan is that, it's wrong or at the very least mistaken, to attribute essentialist differences when the only difference between cultures... is culture and that neither are static or, you know, that different from each other... especially with globalization which is turning everything into shallow consumer-culture.
You know, last night when I said everyone here is racist and you very snippily added including you[me], you really didn't have to... obviously I'm biased towards the place in which I grew up and the culture that I live in... still doesn't mean that the "dominant" culture is better or that cultural imperialism is of the good or should go unchallenged with regard to aspects that it marginalizes.