Every time I read something by Ezra Klein I think of one of those movies where Keanu Reeves hatches from an egg inside of the mainframe and then is Mila Jovovich and someone who might be a scientist says "she is learning at an incredible rate!" but still she remains a child. Leloo Dallas, multipass! Anyway, there is little to add to what Wilkinson already wrote, except to point out again and for the billionth time that modern liberals are technocratic utopians who truly, truly believe that if only the right people were in charge, things would be fine. They truly, truly viewed the George W. Bush presidency as a unique rupture in American history, a time outside of time, and all the howling about the mendacious, lying, violent, dishonest, opaque, nightmarish, totalitarian government during the past eight years simply lost its relevance when Barack Obama took over. It no longer obtained. They do not conceive any continuity in the American government; they imagine that each new presidential election represents a new incarnation, a new cosmic cycle, a new creation.
In Ezra Klein's honor, I quote a better Baracka:
A NEW REALITY IS BETTER THAN A NEW MOVIE!
How will it go, crumbling earthquake, towering inferno, juggernaut, volcano, smashup.
in reality, other than the feverish nearreal fantasy of the capitalist flunk film hacks
tho they sense its reality breathing a quake inferno scar on their throat even snorts of
100% pure cocaine cant cancel the cold cut of impending death to this society. On all the
screens of america, the joint blows up every hour and a half for two dollars and fifty cents.
They had taken the niggers out to lunch, for a minute, made us partners (nigger charlie) or
surrogates (boss nigger) for their horror. But just as superafrikan mobutu cannot leopardskin his
way out of responsibility for lumumba’s death, nor even with his incredible billions rockefeller
cannot even save his pale ho’s titties the crushing weight of things as they really are.
How will it go, does it reach you, getting up, sitting on the side of the bed, getting ready
to go to work. Hypnotized by the machine, and the cement floor, the jungle treachery of trying
to survive with no money in a money world, of making the boss 100,000 for every 200 dollars
you get, and then having his brother get you for the rent, and if you want to buy the car you
helped build, your downpayment paid for it, the rest goes to buy his old lady a foam rubber
rhinestone set of boobies for special occasions when kissinger drunkenly fumbles with
her blouse, forgetting himself.
If you don’t like it, what you gonna do about it. That was the question we asked each other, &
still right regularly need to ask. You don’t like it? Whatcha gonna do, about it??
The real terror of nature is humanity enraged, the true technicolor spectacle that hollywood
cant record. They cant even show you how you look when you go to work or when you come back.
They can’t even show you thinking or demanding the new socialist reality, it’s the ultimate tidal
wave. When all over the planet, men and women, with heat in their hands, demand that society
be planned to include the lives and self determination of all the people ever to live. That is
the scalding scenario with a cast of just under two billion that they are not even whisper.
It’s called, “We Want It All . . . The Whole World!”
24 comments:
Check that Wilkinson link.
Whoops. Thanks. Fixed.
Leroi’s shtick is long past its sell-by date.
Klein says, "no, the health care bill will not really send gummint bureaucrats to kill your granny," and Wilkinson responds with "But hey, look at Iraq, and torture, and the drug war!" And then follows... poetry! Um... what?
I like your stuff in general, IOZ, but your writing on this topic has ranged from middling to incoherent. On nearly every other issue you write about, from Afghanistan to the drug war, you generally have specific, interesting things to say. Here, all you have is vague generalities about Liberalism and The Dreaded Donk. It sure would be nice to hear an actual argument at some point.
In fact, I've said again and again that there are two models for "health care." One is universal care, which the government of the United States as currently constituted will never deliver, the other of which is a radical revision of our attitudes toward sickness, health, and human mortality, which no government can deliver, except indirectly, by, you know, collapsing or some such. Otherwise, if my writing on the subject seems less . . . particular, it is because there are no actual issues at stake other than some good laff lines at the expense of crazed town-hall grannies and best-and-brightest little donkeys. A lot of money will be delivered to some semiprivate companies. Some people who previously fell through the cracks will get care; others will not. The tax code will get more complicated. Cardiologists will still make a half mil a year. Obama will call it reform, the Republicans will take credit for whatever shit people actually like. Ever thus to deadbeats. Meanwhile, your wages or salary will continue to generally stagnate as, among other things, your finance and Human Resources departments struggle to figure out how to wring something out of health care costs that are growing by ten or twelve percent instead of twenty or twenty-five percent . . . at best.
Your criticism of Will is intentionally obtuse, but you know, blog.
To be fair, that Klein quote is a little less damning in context. He's responding to a marvelously stupid op-ed about how, yeah, there may not literally be a bill requiring the elderly to be made into delicious soylent green (Spoiler alert!), but what's to stop it from happening? You have to tell us what would prevent that from happening, because we can't imagine a single thing!
And Ezra just decided to respond in the stupidest way possible, because, hey, it's The Washington Post.
You know, I still sympathize with the mainstream liberal types, so I am astounded that they've chosen to take the motherfucking "Vigorous protest is unpatriotic!" approach. What the fuck happened to all your stirring rhetoric about America's rich history of dissent in the face of tyranny, you sons of bitches?
One Massive, Indebted State: Check
300+ Million Ethnically and Culturally Heterogeneous People: Check
Reform: GO!!! (and make sure it's democratic for pete's sake)
I'm still looking at the French model.
Laetitia Casta?
"What the fuck happened to all your stirring rhetoric about America's rich history of dissent in the face of tyranny, you sons of bitches?"
Well, dissent, yeah, but polite dissent. All this shouting down of congresspeople... it's just not done.
But more seriously, the objection is to (as someone somewhere else on the tubes wrote) the 'frenzied, incoherent mob.' But this is two things. Objecting to the frenzy is pretty objectionable in itself. But the incoherence is another matter. The extent to which the grounds for the protesters to protest simply have no relation to reality ('keep your government hands off my medicare!', 'no forced euthanasia!', etc., ad nauseum) really is worrying. If it is true that the government of the United States as currently constituted will never deliver (among other important things) universal health care, then our only hope is to reconstitute the government. If our fellow citizens (and the most politically active of them, at that) are this crazy, then where do we go? I know cynicism is the fashion in these parts, so sorry for spoiling everyone's fun, but I really would like to know.
this is dumb. why is it only "reform" if it achieves the supposedly impossible?
this is dumb. why is it only "reform" if it achieves the supposedly impossible? Wow. Didn't read IOZ's comment, huh? No healthcare system that heals everybody comes out of this government.
I find getting shouted down by organized morons to be distasteful, but if I'm being honest, the problem is the prepositional phrase more than the verb. I'm also offended that they don't get the art of heckling. Ignorant dishonest loudmouth yahoos then, to paraphrase what they said about the hippies. And it's not like uncivil public dissent really stopped any of our war adventures.
(Yeah I know, this is not 'Nam, etc.)
I haven't read Klein in a long time either, what with the movementarianism and the seven posts a day that didn't strengthen the brand very much. I'd heard he gotten better.
I prefer Ginsberg.
Technocratic utopians want the right computers in charge.
Well, dissent, yeah, but polite dissent. All this shouting down of congresspeople... it's just not done.
Exactly. See, for example, the tasering of Andrew Meyer, which most people seemed to think was OK because he was rude.
Of course, the fact that he got tasered while these yahoos get treated like they've got worthwhile points of view does perhaps illustrate something of a double-standard in play somewhere...
See, for example, the tasering of Andrew Meyer, which most people seemed to think was OK because he was rude.
come on, you laughed. we all did.
Can Ron Perlman be in this movie? I'm thinking as an angry townhall protestor...
"come on, you laughed. we all did."
if there's one thing americans are, it's amused by ANYTHING, no matter how barbaric.
of course, if the democrats were offering universal coverage, they'd be dealing with the same morons, but part of me feels that a simpler argument to make ("do you, personally, want health care for free?") would make the whole task of "reform" much easier. if your plan is to steal yet more taxpayer money and distribute it amongst a small number of huge companies, if that's your plan and you're too stupid to wrap it in something snazzy, then you deserve the wrath of every yahoo you meet.
Health care for free? Shit, sign me up. Of course, I'm kinda confused as to where the money for salaries, hospitals, equipment, drugs, etc comes from.
The government, you big silly
Us. I prefer the rich pay more, personally.
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