Comments on: Amusing Ourselves to Life

By: Laslanian

Laslanian — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 02:58:00 +0000

I have read many posts but not had time to comment. This reminds me of MK’s “The Joke”— once we no longer have irony and satire we really don’t have any room to move outside of dogmatism.

I cannot, however, drink scotch (or wine, my preferred drug of choice) and watch GB because, well, I am not distanced enough. I have friends who can laugh uproariously and nervously at his pathological rants but I cannot. I know too many people who take him seriously. And believe he presents real arguments. When I hear and see this, I think we really do live in the land of make believe and there is no tether to any form of truth or reason (in any meaningful sense of the word). He — like Rush— represents a very passionate strain of conservative thinking and attachment that reaches far beyond a few zealots. He, again like Rush, gives voice and power to the paranoid fears of the right.

If Obama is a Nazi or people believe he can be we have a real issue with the defining and framing of reality.

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