Monday, November 01, 2004
One of the best articles that I have read for a long time
For some reason, articles like that really...I don't even know what. It's enormously powerful, touching, yet I don't know if I should feel sympathetic or envious, or satisfied or what...I have a thousand words for it and yet I feel like my mouth suddenly got erased from the Matrix. It's the greatest irony that my pursuit of truth and freedom probably made me feel more trapped inside this spider web than people who never grappled with illusions and relativisms--they are entirely freer in many senses. On the other hand, it's never really up to me to decide my fate in the first place. So I don't even know if I should feel happy or sad.
most entertainingly, as a follow up:
"Gene Weingarten:
Good afternoon.
I was going to begin by just taking questions, but Ted Prus called me this morning, and there is Entertaining News.
You will remember that Ted doesn’t vote because he feels the political process is cynical. He mistrusts all politicians, including Bush and Kerry. He feels they are liars and opportunists. But he did say that if he were frog-marched into a voting booth with a gun to his head, and he absolutely had to vote one way or another, he’d probably opt for Kerry.
That was enough for the opportunists! On Saturday evening, Ted got a phone call. It was from a Democratic Party fundraiser, wanting to know if Ted would agree to travel the Midwest in the next three days, jetted from place to place on behalf of the campaign, urging the similarly disaffected to get out there and vote for Kerry. He’d get to meet Kerry, he was told, and hobnob with important people!
Ted declined.
He is my hero. "
For some reason, articles like that really...I don't even know what. It's enormously powerful, touching, yet I don't know if I should feel sympathetic or envious, or satisfied or what...I have a thousand words for it and yet I feel like my mouth suddenly got erased from the Matrix. It's the greatest irony that my pursuit of truth and freedom probably made me feel more trapped inside this spider web than people who never grappled with illusions and relativisms--they are entirely freer in many senses. On the other hand, it's never really up to me to decide my fate in the first place. So I don't even know if I should feel happy or sad.
most entertainingly, as a follow up:
"Gene Weingarten:
Good afternoon.
I was going to begin by just taking questions, but Ted Prus called me this morning, and there is Entertaining News.
You will remember that Ted doesn’t vote because he feels the political process is cynical. He mistrusts all politicians, including Bush and Kerry. He feels they are liars and opportunists. But he did say that if he were frog-marched into a voting booth with a gun to his head, and he absolutely had to vote one way or another, he’d probably opt for Kerry.
That was enough for the opportunists! On Saturday evening, Ted got a phone call. It was from a Democratic Party fundraiser, wanting to know if Ted would agree to travel the Midwest in the next three days, jetted from place to place on behalf of the campaign, urging the similarly disaffected to get out there and vote for Kerry. He’d get to meet Kerry, he was told, and hobnob with important people!
Ted declined.
He is my hero. "
