I know this is really unfair to Chris Hedges, but the symmetry here is too fearful to leave unnoted.
Is this what terrified Norman Mailer forty years ago?
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I know this is really unfair to Chris Hedges, but the symmetry here is too fearful to leave unnoted.
Is this what terrified Norman Mailer forty years ago?
Caesar non supra grammaticos.
Anon.
I am a grammarian.
We will or we will not cry together.
Gertrude Stein
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I know this is rather unfair, but from around 1:22, it actually sounds like Ann Coulter believes that "the Nazis were coming to power in, ahem, Cuba under Fidel Castro". For some - equally unfair - reason, I take this statement to be telling of her historical consciousness...
Also, her flatly stated inference from the French revolution to totalitarianism is telling... Mon dieu, as they would say in France...
Yes, she's stringing together a bunch of references that she's note sure what mean but is (justifiably) certain her target audience also knows next to nothing about and they'll just sort of "get" that Ann thinks these people are silly & dangerous. (That's actually an astounding conjunction for anyone who cares to think about it. But any careful observer of the mass media knows that pundits are masters at making them. OWS is both silly and not worth bothering about AND, if you we were going to bother, essentially fascist. Either way: not something you should get involved in or pay attention to ... which is then, again, astoundingly if you think about it, the message of the act of the media's paying attention. It's not very astounding, though, if you don't undertake to think about it. And that's of course the consensus approach to media.)
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