Think Christopher Hitchens' voting for Barack Obama was a fluke? We don't. You can trace the change in America's most prolific writer to this very photo. It was after this demoralizing episode in October 2007 (for the aptly-named Vanity Fair) that he gave up smoking and declared he wanted to live "longer." (Longer than what? And why? He's on his second wife, so he knows betrayal of one kind or another, what's the attraction?) Nothing the great man has said, since then, has made much sense, so we've had to watch him back-track fairly regularly - but now he's being accepted on the talk shows!!! And anyone who's paying attention knows we don't just mean the ones on FOX.
Sigh.
This is life as High School all over again; Jr. High even, except now, instead of being instructed by drug-addled kids who wear tight pants without underwear, he's being instructed by "open-minded" fitness fanatics in looser pants - but with tight asses - and, somehow, in true hippie fashion, what's supposed to be underneath has still escaped being included. You know, the little things, like self-awareness and common sense. Otherwise someone of Hitchens' Olympian gifts would have already taken notice of the most glaringly fatal flaw in this feminized (and quite NewAge) reconstruction of his visage, and what's left of his so-called reasoning:
Dude, this is not a photo of a man.
He's a journalist. It's probably just one of those 'joke' photoshoots they do.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you down on Hichens? The guy wrote one of the best anti-religion books I've ever read (and they number in the double digits).
Did you notice that Obama is possibly the first president to acknowledge non-believers in his inauguration speech? That's a good thing.
NewAgers have no set values or beliefs, so they always acknowledge all faiths, saying "You can be a Christian and still do Reiki" or some shit. (Then they start complaining about how fucked up the other faith is.) Those of us who are real atheists - born, not acquired - don't need acknowledgment, whether it's from Obama or plastered on the side of buses. Atheism is the state of being, the natural order. What we need is common sense and smarts but, so far, Obama hasn't shown any. And I'm waiting.
ReplyDeleteWhy am I down on Hitchens? He should know better.
Nice to see you again, B. Hope all is well.