Saturday, June 05, 2004
I'm a liberal who has had a decade's worth of frustration with Republicans and the conservative agenda, but that doesn't lessen my disgust with prose like this, which comes casually in a routine theater review in the Village Voice. The arrogant insularity and snobbery of liberals like this is truly disgusting. It makes their political beliefs seem not the product of ideals and principles, but rather of egotism and narrowmindedness. It embarrasses me to think that Michael Feingold and I are anywhere near each other on the same spectrum. Perhaps he's on the far left and I can just consider the bigotry in this paragraph a product of extremism. But I have the disheartening inclination that he's not a Neo-Leninist, but representative of a larger worldview.
The Village Voice: Theater: Foreman's Wake-Up Call by Michael Feingold:
Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.
The Village Voice: Theater: Foreman's Wake-Up Call by Michael Feingold:
Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.
