April 24, 2007
Still obsessed with how our country is going to hell
Man, I am all about the dwelling on the Orwellian crap today. Maybe it was reading Naomi Wolf's diagnosis of our early signs of Creeping Totalitarianism Syndrome this morning. Now I'm steamed about this professor being denied entry to the U.S. for having used LSD 30 years ago. I bet we let Paul McCartney come perform some concerts though.
Posted by Francis at 03:57 PMWhen I read that Naomi Wolf article, I was cranky about her overstating her case. I think three of the ten things are stretches, things that she thinks the administration is trying to do, rather than doing. For instance, she counts under "arbitrary detention and release" people who got onto the no-fly list, and were not detained at all.
But on reflection, I think that even if it's not a great article, it's a good article. The point that "early on ... the horror is always elsewhere" is important. And, if nothing else, it's a good idea to kick up a big fuss about creeping totalitarianism just to alert the next president that it would be politically popular to, you know, adhere to the Constitution.
Thanks,
-V.