>For the past eight years we have been bombarded with the insincere thoughts,
>incomprehensible meaning, and interminable verbosity of Clintonistas trying
>to overwhelm us with their pyscho-techno-bunko babble. It started early,
>with Renaissance weekend maitre d' Philip Lader declaring, "I would hope
>that this administration might be characterized by the power of ideas. But
>also the power of relationships. Of recognizing the integrity of people
>dealing with each other." The future senator of New York offered her
>thoughts: "We are, I think, in a crisis of meaning . . . We lack at some
>core level meaning in our individual lives and collectively . . . We need
>a new politics of meaning . . . It's not going to be easy to redefine who
>we are as human beings in this post-modern age . . .But part of the great
>challenge of living is defining yourself in your moment."
As Harold Bloom once said in a very different context, "How to measure the awfulness of this?"
Doug