Clinton nostalgia

[Jacob Segal]

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

Of course, Ms. Clinton soon abandoned this "politics of meaning" when
criticized, thus showing she lacked the courage of her own banalities.

Jacob Segal