[lbo-talk] Our Magical President: Wm. Gibson Reaches Critical Mass

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Oct 20 21:33:38 PDT 2004


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Duncan M. Clark quoted William Gibson saying


> I found myself wondering whether that Bush-as-idiot-shaman essay I
> quoted here recently might not be literally true, in some ghastly
> Castanedan way? Could it be that the obscenely comforting narrowing of
> imaginative bandwith (the real payoff in becoming a Bushite believer)
> was actually changing the world, or threatening to, via its chilling
> effect on consensus-reality?

Would you happen to know what essay he is talking about? I couldn't locate the quote on his site.

Michael



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