17 Replies to “Our Moral And Intellectual Superiors”

  1. Once upon a time I read David Solway in some publication, but I can not remember where. Was it in Macleans, or the Globe?

    Anyway, now he has some idea of what Pasternak, Solzhenitzyn went through and suffered. One does not buck the Marxist cabal.

    Where oh where is our Gorby and Yeltsin?

      2. Thanx for that. Thoroughly enjoyed those selections. Would very much like to read something more recent.

  2. He didn’t say why he was no longer a Canadian writer other than the poor company he would keep should he (re) join their leftist circle-jerks. It isn’t news that the arts community is another integral part of the institutional left. It seems to me that there should be a niche market for non leftist writers, even in the deranged dominion.

  3. Funny. I’m on Goodreads, and of course I made the mistake of joining a discussion group focused on CanLit. At some point I chimed in that my experience with the Canadian publishing industry was that one of the main factors in getting published was grant money. If you, or your writing, fits into a category that generates grant revenue, you move to the front of the line. A very good novel (and I’m not supposing my books might fit that mold) that might garner strong sales will get bumped in favor of a weak piece that comes with a publishing grant (feminism, idigenous, LGBTQLMNOP, French language, and other sundry SJ topics). I was banished from the group for speaking such heresy.
    The net result is that various governments are funding writers that no one wants to read, in order to foment a uniquely “Canadian” body of literature. The other net result is that it leads to fewer readers of CanLit, and fewer writers of uniquely Canadian works.

  4. Boo Phucking Hoo.
    This douche bag didn’t notice these leftist A holes were always leftist A holes. Thanks for waking up, numbnuts.

  5. Seems to be a slight angle in that piece that he only really became disillusioned with the left when they became anti semitic and pro palestinian.

    In other words, he was fine with their antics and stupidity until they turned on “his people”.

    Self awareness is good but must it always come from self interest ?

  6. David Solway is an interesting conservative writer. I saw his publishing record somewhere, and — after having a middling career as a creative, largely apolitical writer, he began to write conservative tracts. He is a Jewish-Canadian, and wrote one pro-Israel book. I imagine the hyper anti-Israel agitation on campus, as well as semi-literate undergrads, drove him from teaching.

    He says that he now makes a career writing for the U.S. conservative media. But Solway is 77 years old. He spent his life at univerdity, so his fairly lucrative professor’s pension keeps him from worrying about income difficulties, living as he does in Quebec. His participation in the conservative movement, as an intellectual, is a positive.

  9. Richler (Mordecai) had this scam figured out decades ago when he lived in Europe. He called out the CanLit cabal for asking government to provide an audience that their talent could not provide. They hated him.

    That’s the bottom line. If your writing is not commercially viable. If your art has no audience – maybe your no good. Why should the tax payer provide you with a market that your ‘talent’ cannot produce?

    CAPTCHA – I’m moving vewery vewery slowly AND IT’S NOT WORKING!

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      1: Go faster then!
      2: Try late late late hours, like after sleepyheads are snoring!
      3: Tell CAPTCHA you love her, maybe you hurt her feelings.
      4: Tell CAPTCHA you love him, in case he’s ya know, and you hurt his.
      5: Tell us you’re a Canadian author, they’ll publish your post faster.

      P.S. I have always loved Mordecai Richler. “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravits”, “Solomon Gursky Was Here”, “Oh Canada, Oh Quebec”, were some that I liked. M.R. could always be found at Sir Winston’s Pub on Crescent Street after a spell of writing, if he was in Montreal after he moved back from England. My friend used to see him there.
      R.I.P. M.R.

  10. The late Arthur Upfield called out the Australian literary establishment in “An Author Bites the Dust”.

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