--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
<< In the wake of a detumescent revolutionary fervor, and with the associated political vision largely gone, we are left with an opportunistic polemicising in which no matter how much one's opinion alters, it remains permanently in opposition, permanently contrarian. And this delivers the hammering Hitchensian irony in which the most consummately bourgeois opinion acquires the mould and fashion of resistance.>>
The above statement agrees with my suspicion about Hitchens. What seems to matter most to Hitchens is to maintain (at least in his own mind) the status of "contrarian" (ergo he can continue to imagine himself still a revolutionary) while getting his ego stroked by his appearances on tv, etc.
-Thomas -
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