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Re: kidnapped Assyrians....
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, February 26 2015, 15:43:19 (UTC)
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..it can't be a question of ageing brain cells that afflicted both Hitchens and Maher...George Galloway is growing older and he seems to have kept his wits quite well. You know Hitchens and Maher have betrayed themselves because they make such a poor showing, compared to other topics besides Islam, whenever they open their mouths...while both of them are brilliant on other topics, they sputter and gnash and sweat and also cut opposing views off, or try to, even to shouting people down or, as in Hitchens' case, rudely and childishly interrupting people...this is not their normal good showing...so you wonder what happened to them.

If they are speaking, and thinking, with integrity, they wouldn't conduct themselves so poorly and so unlike the smooth way they handle other topics or opposition...so, what is it...what happened to these two?

I can only guess but I think it has something to do with a sort of arrogance of their youth....they actually BELIEVED the Camelot stuff...they really believed they were part of a cutting edge which would cut away all the "old stuff"...and they become bitter when they realize that not even their best intentions and personal qualities were enough in the brief period of time they had on earth to effect the changes they wanted...so they turn bitter and turn against, not their own foolishness for having EXPECTED the changes they valued, but against those core beliefs they once held.

Kindliness and progressiveness are as valuable as they ever were, so is being sharp of mind and eschewing jingoism....but then, disappointingly, it didn't "work"...not enough of the "liberal agenda" or even a revolutionary one, panned out..so they turn against those beliefs and practices instead of against their own impatience and ego-tripping.

When I read "Hitch 22", a book of reminisces by Hitch about his life and beliefs, I was surprised to see how "hip" as a young revolutionary he thought he was...even to going to camp in Cuba! A camp for young, hip revolutionaries...that stuff was bullshit from the word "go" and a wiser teen would never have fallen for it....you can't "camp" your way to a new world order...not even a hip one. Getting together with other pimply teenagers, even in Cuba, is a promise of nothing tangible or lasting...but that you thought it COULD be signals you as a starry-eyed believer in what amounts to masturbatory fantasies....

I think towards the end both Hitch and Maher wanted to be on the "winning side"...they were tired of being on the margins, they wanted to feel the comfy cozy warmth of lots of bodies with the same ideas huddled close together and believing the same things, the "comfortable" things.

A true believer doesn't stop, especially when he or she knows that the LONG sweep, not the short swipe, of history is on their side...a "Groupie" loses interest eventually....they "grow-up"...they think.



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