and workshop. It's a fine workshop. Me and my assistant, Mr. Scratch.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Politics as usual
Obamas efforts to stifle criticism strike me as seriously overboard. The man is famously thin-skinned, and it makes me wonder how he would deal with criticism if he controlled the Justice Department.
He's a post-modern World Citizen kinda guy, where a thing means whatever he interprets it to mean, so Truth becomes an article of the Ministry of Truth - and as such is owned by the State, all legally in copyright like a Scientologist's screed.
Sort of a modern version of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. "When I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean, no more and no less. When you use a word, it means exactly what I think it means, no more and no less. And if I don't like what I think it means, you're going down, no more and no less."
He's a post-modern World Citizen kinda guy, where a thing means whatever he interprets it to mean, so Truth becomes an article of the Ministry of Truth - and as such is owned by the State, all legally in copyright like a Scientologist's screed.
ReplyDeleteSort of a modern version of the caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland. "When I use a word it means exactly what I want it to mean, no more and no less. When you use a word, it means exactly what I think it means, no more and no less. And if I don't like what I think it means, you're going down, no more and no less."
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