Nihilism in the Oval Office
By Michael J.W. Stickings
Digby writes that Bush is "The PoMo President" -- postmodern, that is. How so? "Whatever his reasons, he seems to have adopted a shallow PoMo-style philosophy that everything is debatable down through time so it doesn't matter what he does." Conservatives have long tried to make the case that liberalism is nihilism in sheep's clothing, that is, that liberals don't believe in anything except nothing, that liberals don't believe in truth, that liberals, in Digby's words, have "no values". And yet it seems that "nobody has practiced relativism more successfully than the modern Republican party".
Excellent point.
Digby writes that Bush is "The PoMo President" -- postmodern, that is. How so? "Whatever his reasons, he seems to have adopted a shallow PoMo-style philosophy that everything is debatable down through time so it doesn't matter what he does." Conservatives have long tried to make the case that liberalism is nihilism in sheep's clothing, that is, that liberals don't believe in anything except nothing, that liberals don't believe in truth, that liberals, in Digby's words, have "no values". And yet it seems that "nobody has practiced relativism more successfully than the modern Republican party".
Excellent point.
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
1:45 AM
2 Comments:
When the Iraq War started, I knew that Baudrillard would have a field day.
Everything about this president is a confirmation of even the most far-out French Theory.
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Anonymous, at 7:03 PM
Skewered by a French theory? The irony alone makes that a very appealing idea.
By
Capt. Fogg, at 9:46 PM
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