My take too, and I was myself skeptical— it smacked of urban legend, and fit too perfectly the shape of a convenient simple minded narrative of right wing villainy—however we live in a time when each day reveals as true claims which only the day before any reasonable person would have had to dismiss as mendacious slander and impossible n…
My take too, and I was myself skeptical— it smacked of urban legend, and fit too perfectly the shape of a convenient simple minded narrative of right wing villainy—however we live in a time when each day reveals as true claims which only the day before any reasonable person would have had to dismiss as mendacious slander and impossible nonsense.
It’s as if we are watching a James Bond movie in which a cartoonish villain builds a huge island hideaway full of spaceships and private armies of gloating henchmen, and we leave the theater saying, well, Im afraid even though I wanted to I just couldnt get my disbelief suspended enough, that was so ridiculous and just too absurd even for a spy movie —but when the news comes on we find out it was all true.
It would be lovely to live in a world where the rape of a ten-year-old child was unimaginable, but as the news proves daily, that world exists only in fairy tales. It's not an urban legend: it is that poor child's nightmare existence.
My take too, and I was myself skeptical— it smacked of urban legend, and fit too perfectly the shape of a convenient simple minded narrative of right wing villainy—however we live in a time when each day reveals as true claims which only the day before any reasonable person would have had to dismiss as mendacious slander and impossible nonsense.
It’s as if we are watching a James Bond movie in which a cartoonish villain builds a huge island hideaway full of spaceships and private armies of gloating henchmen, and we leave the theater saying, well, Im afraid even though I wanted to I just couldnt get my disbelief suspended enough, that was so ridiculous and just too absurd even for a spy movie —but when the news comes on we find out it was all true.
It would be lovely to live in a world where the rape of a ten-year-old child was unimaginable, but as the news proves daily, that world exists only in fairy tales. It's not an urban legend: it is that poor child's nightmare existence.