Tuesday, November 16, 2004
"If I'd known this would happen, I'd have picked my own cotton."
Matt Taibbi provides some insight into the Other in his latest Rolling Stone piece. For those of you unfamiliar with the writer some believe may be Jesus, his NYPress column is worth checking regularly.
A sample:
posted by Scats : 11/16/2004 01:42:00 AM
A sample:
[Critics] do a terrific job of mocking his mental deficiencies and dismissing his supporters as hapless morons, but they do not do a very good job of explaining the nature of his support. The few dissident commentators who bother trying to explain the Bush phenomenon seldom do more than reach for the nearest Marx-inspired academic cliche. They will tell you, for instance, that Republicans are a vast intellectual underclass cynically manipulated by the rich through a mesmerizing cocktail of yahoo enthusiasms, xenophobic fears and ancient superstitions -- and those same people will insist, if forced to offer an opinion on the subject, that one should feel sorry for most of them.
This is the wrong approach. As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.
posted by Scats : 11/16/2004 01:42:00 AM
