Hitchens No Orwell

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Nathan Newman" <nathan at newman.org>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
> >From: LeoCasey at aol.com
> >
> >... Truth be told, great numbers of
> >what are serious, weighty right-wing intellectuals started their careers 
>as
> >left-wing radicals.
>
>-"Great numbers" of "serious, weighty right-wing intellectuals"?  This is
>-like talking about herds of unicorns, Leo.  I don't credit right-wingers 
>as
>-being thoughtful at all.  I can't fathom why you and Justin persist in
>-kowtowing to the non-existent intellectual splendor of these grubby
>-opportunists.
>
>... It is self-defeating delusion not to recognize the intellectual 
>conversions
>some of those smart rightwingers have made, not just among opportunists but
>among many of the students, journalists and other intellectual workers in
>society who produce the common sense understandings of how society works,
>thereby influencing policy debates across the board.

To the contrary, Nathan, I'd say you're ensnared in the most "self-defeating 
delusion" of all:  confusing genius with a bull market.  There has been a 
zesty appetite for right-wing twaddle for a full generation because that's 
where the money was -- thanks to the surging stock market that started in 
1982.  That market is dead, dead, dead.  It would be increasingly easy for 
the left to expose the intellectual vacuity of the right at this point -- if 
the left itself wasn't so vacuous now.

Carl
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