In the June issue of the dreadful magazine George, the dreadful Naomi Wolf explains:
"Though Gore may have discovered common ground with a generation of voters who are young enough to be his children, the elite media dismiss his global Americanism [this concept was first introduced in the piece as a new "American globalism," but it somehow got reversed by the second page] at every turn. In a piece called 'Cranks for Veep,' New Yorker writer Michael Kelly sniffed that 'Gore's one great idea is systemology - that everything is connected to everything else.' But this holistic premise, which Kelly regards as derisively as if Gore were expressing a belief in divination from entrails, is actually the most current working theory of thinkers in fields ranging from corporate restructuring to family therapy. So it's not surprising that the Washington-New York media cohort [outsider Wolf moved from New York to DC when she married a Clinton speechwriter; she personally wrote a memo to Clinton in 1996 urging him to position himself as the national Good Father to sew up the women's vote], with all its dinosaur reactiveness, finds this kind of thinking threatening. After all, these 'insiders' have the most to lose from Gore's Big Think parlance. When 5 billion people and every country in the world are connected on the Internet, fewer will care what The New Yorker has to say....
But before Gore can make the most of his ahead-of-the-curve understanding of the new global Americanism, he will have to come to terms with his natural eccentricity. (Gore should let his defenses down and allow his inner oddness out.) For if he can't get comfortable with himself, how can the electorate?
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But whatever he has suffered personally in the past, Gore should take heart as he 'outs' himself. We have a history of cherishing our loopy visionaries - after we have mocked them hard. In spite of laughs from elites, Gore will win applause from the electorate...."
Indeed.
Doug