The NPR program On The Media presented a 17 minute piece about the UK's refusal to allow right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders to show his film Fitna. It's a fascinating piece that covers a variety of substantial issues including free speech and cultural tolerance. It's a 17 minute piece, but worth listening. If you want to cut right to the chase, try tuning in at the 10 minute mark, or read the transcript. At this point in the piece, Bob Garfield interviews, Flemming Rose, culture editor for Jyllands-Posten of Denmark, and the man who published the political cartoon depicting Mohammad that incited riots around the Muslim world. Mr. Rose states that "the multiculturalist model [in Copenhagen] has failed. ...we have to come up with something else."
The UK's argument for keeping Geert Wilders out of the country is that his film will "threaten community harmony and therefore public safety in the UK." Are the criticisms in his film like crying "fire" in a crowded theater? Is there a blind spot in the multi-cultural tolerance of the West?
The questions posed by this piece are fascinating.
Listen here.
See the original piece here.
A Crisis of Multiculturalism?
Journals :: Moleskin and Otherwise
Notes for an illustration for Symantec in 2004.
My journals back to 1999. I also have planners, note books and journals back to at least 1983.
I've been keeping sketch books since I was in high school. At first I kept several books separately--a sketch book for drawing and ideas, a journal, and a Franklin Planner for to do items, calendar and meeting notes. Now I have evolved to keeping almost everything in one journal. You can see that I have used several different types, but at this point I definitely prefer the Moleskin squared journal. It's not much more expensive than other journals, but I find that it lasts months longer than the others so I spend less overall. The paper is thinner with more sheets and the small size of the grid helps me to write smaller and use the space better.
I keep personal thoughts, meeting notes, to-do items, and creative development notes. I like to think that it's also a sketch book, but in looking back they contain mostly words. My most recent journal is showing more drawings. I'm going to work on drawing more.
