|
curious--i spent a few days in the wilderness of meat-space without recourse to the net and when i return not only is this thread still alive but it's now taken a turn into that projection-space that has served the right so well, it seems---finding isolated factoids that can be (mis)interpreted in such a way as to imply (or say) that what conservatives are doing is reactive (so not radical) and anyway just mirrors what the Bad People are already doing (so is necessary). one function of this is that it enables the illusion that conservatism as a whole has not been shifted significantly to the right.
you can see beck et al playing a similar game with their emphases on imaginary losses of imaginary virtue which can be restored if only americans would get down on their knees. the question of who's standing in front of those americans is left open, but he calls himself "god" in the glennbeckian context and i expect the koch brothers have hired many focus groups to determine whether it's ok for people to call them god. fired the groups that didn't say yes likely.
but i digress.
__________________
a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
|