Sometimes I can't help thinking, when I read Ann Althouse, it's like she dropped acid and then forgot:
When we look back at Barack Obama, what will we say? I think it will have to do with the way we wanted to believe,...we conned ourselves into seeing him as the embodiment of that fantasy, and he tried to be our dream.
But the world isn't that pretty, and the dream doesn't make much sense unless enough people play along. Giving him the Nobel Peace Prize in advance was part of the shared dream: Come on, everyone into the delusion.
As always - who's "we" Kemosabi?
What "shared dream" is she talking about?
She's already admitted (here and elsewhere) she didn't see Obama clearly, before, so her claim "he tried to be our dream" afterwards can also be considered potential poppycock - correct?
A fairer reading of the situation is, yes, Obama's been a delusion to Ann - and a lot of other NewAge types - but, no, just because they "wanted to believe" something doesn't mean reality was, in any way, cooperating.
It's as I've always said about the other things that don't "make much sense unless enough people play along" - like NewAge or Radical Islam - all we're witnessing is cultish thinking in action.
Like Bush before him, Obama's always been just a man. His "sin" is in letting Ann think otherwise, when even he knew better.
But, as Ann's been known to say about others trapped in cultish thinking, he's not responsible for gullibility.
The responsibility will always be hers.
TMR's glad to see we might, finally, agree,...
TMR's glad to see we might, finally, agree,...
As a graduate of law school, let me fill you in on the Althouse phenomenon. She ain't that bright. She just managed to get ranked first at a reasonable law school (and NYU wasn't so hot at the time, btw). Ask any law graduate about people ranked first in their law school class -- the other law school kidz can't understand how it happened because they are always the glib ones, not the smartest ones. They are the ones with the perkiest answers. I guess they get the highest grades because the law professors grading get sleepy. In any case, Althouse is the classic example. She is an annoying, shallow, glib thinker, as has been proven over and over again. So don't be conned by the credentials. People who think deep thoughts don't become law professors. It's a weird group.
ReplyDeleteoh, and just to be clear, if you graduate first in your class from law school, that's like an automatic ticket to being a law professor. not sure why, it just is (or was until a few years ago). This is why the legal academic world is a perpetual, self-reproducing mediocrity machine.
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