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Jan. 7th, 2008 09:48 pmExactly what it sounds like.
But in the mean time, have "The Mendacity of Hope" an article about an editorial I read a few days ago and Patrick Lang sums it up nicely. What ought to be true isn't true, using the example of a claim made by Barack Obama that more black men are in prison than college. A hard-hitting message, but it has the small problem of not being true.
I've said before that Obama makes me nervous for some reason, and I think it has to do with all the talk of "change" and him being "the one" when the truth is that stuff like that can't pay the bills when it comes down to it. Plus I think he's way too wet behind the ears as of right now, and that people are getting caught up in his message. In short, I don't think he can deliver.
And I think Lang has a good message about not believing any claims like that, whether they be from the right of left, based one what we want to see in a person.
"There is a danger of seeing what you want to see in someone, of accepting the crude image building that modern political campaigns depend on for shaping our weak minds. In the case of Obama the danger is increased by the desire we all have to feel good about ourselves, to believe that he and we are now better and purer than we were."
OK, so this wasn't really about nothing. But I haven't had much to post lately. :P
But in the mean time, have "The Mendacity of Hope" an article about an editorial I read a few days ago and Patrick Lang sums it up nicely. What ought to be true isn't true, using the example of a claim made by Barack Obama that more black men are in prison than college. A hard-hitting message, but it has the small problem of not being true.
I've said before that Obama makes me nervous for some reason, and I think it has to do with all the talk of "change" and him being "the one" when the truth is that stuff like that can't pay the bills when it comes down to it. Plus I think he's way too wet behind the ears as of right now, and that people are getting caught up in his message. In short, I don't think he can deliver.
And I think Lang has a good message about not believing any claims like that, whether they be from the right of left, based one what we want to see in a person.
"There is a danger of seeing what you want to see in someone, of accepting the crude image building that modern political campaigns depend on for shaping our weak minds. In the case of Obama the danger is increased by the desire we all have to feel good about ourselves, to believe that he and we are now better and purer than we were."
OK, so this wasn't really about nothing. But I haven't had much to post lately. :P
