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Richard Fernandez seizes upon Roger Cohen’s recent NYT lamentation (here) to explore the predicament of America’s narcissistic, ruin-mongering elite, as the world they broke collapses about them:
What’s the alternative to stupidity now? Now that they’ve gone so far it’s almost a shame not to see it through to the end. And therein rests the last remaining chance of the liberal establishment, imploring such divinities as they still believe in — luck maybe — that their hero can create a chaos so complete it will embroil the entire Muslim world, Russia and China in a vast conflagration before it consumes them.
Note: Cohen’s inclusion of a citation from Kipling’s The Gods of the Copybook Headings (in the NYT!) is a sure sign of the End Times. It makes me wonder whether the liberal media elite will be desperately chanting Moldbug poetry when Zack finally closes in.
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Posted on September 17th, 2014 at 11:01 am | Quote“Now that they’ve gone so far it’s almost a shame not to see it through to the end”
sounds like #AAA to me.
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Posted on September 17th, 2014 at 11:06 am | QuoteCohen’s definition of British national success amuses: “not because it had failed (refugees from across the seas still clamored to get into it)”. More so because it’s an example of the very detachment from reality he’s lamenting. “How could things have gone so wrong? We’re diverse, we’re tolerant, we’re liberal. What else could we have done?”
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Posted on September 17th, 2014 at 2:28 pm | QuoteIt was a time to realize that playing all ends against every middle had run it’s course, and you were alone surrounded by only enemies, your own defenders among them. That your Dragon’s teeth spring forth grown.
It’s time to realize your time has come.
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Posted on September 19th, 2014 at 2:50 am | Quote