Anne Frank's Myspace
Who is this girl? And why does she have pictures of herself in a bathing suit all over her MySpace page? What's with these old timey photos? She is seriously trying WAY too hard to be eccentric. Girls from the suburbs need to stop fabricating Ghost Worldian lifestyles. We'd all appreciate you suburban types if you JUST WENT WITH IT and wore those Kirkland Signature jeans. Can somebody flag this? Kids aren't supposed to be on MySpace.
2007/10/10
MySpace of the weak: Anne Frank
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I think the fact that, after being forced to hide in an attic for years by the Nazi's, she said that 'in spite of everything, I still think people are good' is just indescribable...i hate that people take this as some kind of strength, or some sort of...I dunno, it seems pathological to me, when it's so obvious how BAD people are, especially in that situation. I feel like i'd be an idiot if I said 'Despite everything I've been through (which is almost nothing), I still believe people are good', let alone if i'd been hiding in an attic.
Maybe I don't get it.
Yeah it's like the holocaust can't be all that bad when you have the Internet in your attic and you're on, like, MySpace all day. Why doesn't she make YouTube videos? They would be a lot more popular than her diaries. We all know she is just trying to be popular. I mean God, that whole "my life is so important I'm gonna write everything down" thing is SO transparent. God it's been done before - it's not original. So she's kind of a poser too.
Brilliant essay by Cynthia Ozick debunks the myth of the "in spite of everything" Anne Frank. Otto Frank, her father, whitewashed much of the journal, and a 1955 Broadway musical depicted her in the Gidget-like sensibilities of the time.
Read here:
"In ``Who Owns Anne Frank?'' Ozick reminds us that the original diary shows Frank to have been far less blithe than the Pollyanna-in-hiding popularized by stage and screen. The real Anne Frank wrote uncomprisingly about the evil that was to consume her. The Anne offered to worldwide audiences, and embraced by them, is all too clearly summed up by the young actress who most recently played the character on Broadway: When asked how she saw her role in the play, the actress explained, ``It's funny, it's hopeful, and she's a happy person.''
The perversion of Anne Frank's diary, turned into a generalized tribute to the irrepressible human spirit and shorn, wherever possible, of tiresomely provocative particulars such as Nazis and specifically Jewish suffering, provides Ozick with a classic model of our desire to be done with the Holocaust. She reminds us, in sentence after vitriolic sentence, that the sentimentalizing of mass murder into mere background for the flowering of perennial hope is a revisionism no less pernicious than Holocaust denial."
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/10/06/1997_10_06_076_TNY_CARDS_000379287
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/09/17/RV97775.DTL
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