Friday, June 19, 2009

And on the other hand

Andrew Sullivan is much more gracious to the neocons than I would be. No doubt many of them are as well-intentioned as he says. I, of all people, understand how annoying it is to be represented by narcissists and fools. But I think that neoconservatism is an ideology built off of faulty assumptions, a flawed model of humanity, an ignorance of history, and an ideology that begins and ends with platitudes. I don't really want to get into the whole thing now, but just because one is well-intentioned doesn't make one any less responsible for the wreckage that America has left behind for the past few years. And it doesn't make the thinking any less imperialist.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.