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comment by NikolaiFyodorov

An alternative take on Nicolaides' imprisonment can be found here.





_refugee_  ·  3824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I appreciate the counterpoint.

I found Nicolaides' writing style interesting. To me, it lacked some in vividity. He seemed very distant from his topic, which may be part of the way he is processing his experience. There was also a great deal for him to tell, so maybe he was trying to be as succint as possible and preserve space. However, ultimately my reaction to the article was "I know that everything he is saying is terrible because he is telling me it is terrible, but I do not necessarily feel that."

If he decided to leave the paragraph in and did this mostly/solely in an attempt to gain attention, thinking that prison wouldn't be as bad as it was or that he would be treated differently, (as the alternative take implies) then he is an idiot. Perhaps unfortunately though I assume that the imprisonment, in ways, is paying off. In my society at least (US) the public gobbles up clearly manufactured ploys for attention via the "news" and entertainment industry all of the time.

NikolaiFyodorov  ·  3824 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Assuming that Nicolaides' motive for including that paragraph was attention-seeking (and the more I read about him, the more apparent that becomes), his fame doesn't seem to have lasted very long. There's very little information online about what he's up to these days at all.

His Wikipedia page mentions that he previously spent a year teaching in Saudi Arabia, where he wrote this article for New Statesman. Fellow clearly liked to court trouble.