tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post4973614833038592287..comments2023-10-14T09:40:06.690-05:00Comments on Jean Kazez: Missing Polar BearsJean Kazezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-88166702527992014232009-08-31T22:27:54.157-05:002009-08-31T22:27:54.157-05:00That's why I brought up signifiers and what th...That's why I brought up signifiers and what they signify. <br /><br />Speaking for myself only, with rather brutal honesty, I'm not sure I really care one way or the other about polar bears. I've never seen one, except on TV and in magazines and on the web. They are neat looking, the cubs are cute when they play, their capacity to live in arctic environments is utterly remarkable.<br Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-5711217078201009562009-08-31T21:17:53.261-05:002009-08-31T21:17:53.261-05:00What makes it good for there to be Polar Bears in ...What makes it good for there to be Polar Bears in the wild? Ask a Polar Bear. It seems like the same question as what makes it good for human beings to survive. <br />Polar Bears being our fellows, so to speak, we see the extinction of Polar Bears as equivalent to the extinction of the human race and the unnecessary death of each Polar Bear as similar to the unnecessary death of each s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-26234413164579241452009-08-31T21:08:06.363-05:002009-08-31T21:08:06.363-05:00I'm not making any comment here about what mat...I'm not making any comment here about what matters most, as far as global warming is concerned. I'm just intrigued by what matters to us, as far as polar bears are concerned. <br /><br />I think it matters to us to be able to see great pictures of polar bears, but that can't be all, since we can go on doing that whether they exist or not. Apparently, we want to be able to go on Jean Kazezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00592593002719828153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-32923671372135839762009-08-31T17:32:42.134-05:002009-08-31T17:32:42.134-05:00My reaction, hence my ironic comment above, is t...My reaction, hence my ironic comment above, is that whether "we" can see polar bears in the future is not the priority insofar as global warming is concerned. Priorities might be people who are going to be flooded by rising sea levels (Bangladesh) and the well-being of polar bears, but not whether we can see them or not.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-23944716567542564422009-08-31T11:01:59.856-05:002009-08-31T11:01:59.856-05:00"Oddly, what you think while viewing a pictur..."Oddly, what you think while viewing a picture affects the way the picture looks."<br /><br />Compare with: <br /><br />Oddly, what you think when you hear a particular word affects what the word means.<br /><br />If the analogy holds then this is not odd, except to the degree that the distinction between signifier and the signified is odd. <br /><br />Right now a picture of a polar Faustnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8310450667755637519.post-73513527072416285922009-08-31T09:36:15.992-05:002009-08-31T09:36:15.992-05:00Rest assured. They'll save a few polar bears...Rest assured. They'll save a few polar bears and put them in special zoos. Maybe they'll even save a few people from Bangla Desh too.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com