Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear.
Don’t you get the sense that this is precisely what happened to Republicans and conservatives and right wing loons like Dick Cheney and Tom DeLay and Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck and . . . (ad infinitum)?
And my short answer to BooMan’s question about why the Atlantic publishes Megan McCardle’s type of tripe is: Because they can.
Weird. I was just looking at Infinite Jest last night. I was trying to explain it to someone who had never heard of Wallace. That’s not easy.
And his writer friend was Jonathan Franzen: The Connections
Life is weird.
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