Suggested reading for today
Jul. 19th, 2006 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaunthieNot sure I agree with all of the points, but it's a really interesting analysis of how we as a country got where we are today, from the world of 2000 to the world of 2006. Money quote:
The rattling apart of the Bushite fantasy – that the entire intellectual "reality based" state could be replaced by a "faith based" state – is of no small consequence. This is because Bush has not merely presided over the longest period of undivided government in 40 years, but he has also populated the government, down to low levels, with people who will believe that 2+2=5 if one can find a biblical verse that can be construed to mandate it. The US government is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, because it is populated with political appointees who will not believe a weather map, or an intelligence report, if either conflicts with their preconceived notion of how events "must" play out.
You can read the whole article here.
The rattling apart of the Bushite fantasy – that the entire intellectual "reality based" state could be replaced by a "faith based" state – is of no small consequence. This is because Bush has not merely presided over the longest period of undivided government in 40 years, but he has also populated the government, down to low levels, with people who will believe that 2+2=5 if one can find a biblical verse that can be construed to mandate it. The US government is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, because it is populated with political appointees who will not believe a weather map, or an intelligence report, if either conflicts with their preconceived notion of how events "must" play out.
You can read the whole article here.
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Date: 2006-07-19 08:12 pm (UTC)Please email me and let me know. Thanks and sorry for the short notice--I just remembered that we needed to think about this...3 weeks of wedding-planning does not give a lot of time to cover these details.