| Submit your comments on this article |
| Home Front: Politix |
| Jurassic President |
| 2011-04-22 |
| But Obama is not in the early 21st century, or not in the same 21st century the rest of us inhabit. Instead, heÂ’s preserved in the amber of an echo chamber where the romanticized version of the thirties seen through the new-agey 1970s is paradise. In his circles, denying this vision is akin to insisting the sky is made of cheese. I donÂ’t share his view, but I can understand it because we do move in intellectually similar circles. As an author and, further, a science fiction author, and as someone who has moved in and out of academic circles over the years, I know that artists, academics, and self-described intellectuals have self-selected themselves into an almost parallel universe of leftist chic and wishful thinking. In that universe, if only Carter had served a second term, weÂ’d have all-green-energy, caring, helpful, gentle, earth-loving communities, no competition, and a mandated minimum wage of $100 per hour that somehow works perfectly and doesnÂ’t bankrupt any businesses. |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #1 If, like the restored velociraptor, he weren’t such a danger to the modern world, one would be tempted to feel sorry for our Jurassic President, wandering around in a landscape he can neither perceive nor understand because all his senses and training show him a world that no longer exists — and perhaps never did. *snicker* |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-04-22 12:02 |