Monday, August 4, 2008
"... the buzz words, the bylines employed by you new agey, post nation state types, all this world community crap and let's talk to each other crap and communication helps us understand each other crap, all this brave new world blubbering that makes you think that Obama's opened some magical gate of wisdom by promising to talk to our enemies - well, sounds like empty bombast to me, specious, an obtuse mistaking of the gesture for the deed, a pandering to mere sentiment, a... an unseemly grostesquerie of the real world. I mean, hell, what is talk? Are you people looking for wisdom or consolation? My teenage daughters talk constantly and although when I perchance have the misfortune to overhear these conversations they do prove somewhat edifying in an ironical way, believe me, the great soul of the world is decidedly not being laid bare..."
