Friday, July 18, 2003
(2:07 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
I am tired of Paul Krugman
That's right: I am tired of Paul Krugman. He forcefully lays out the administration's misdeeds (alternately known as "everything the bastards have ever done, ever"), then asks why no one cares or hopes for the final day of reckoning. It's a pleasing template, yet it does no good. Paul Krugman's rantings have not caused even the slightest change in the administration's policies, any more than Noam Chomsky's lovingly detailed accounts of American sin have caused us to change our foreign policy. All of these facts are known to everyone, and the truth has not yet set us free.
Maybe rather than "speaking out," we should be actually doing something. Maybe these columnists should be giving us instructions on how to do something other than feel outraged and really a lot smarter than all the Moron Americans out there.
The question with all this talk of "doing stuff", as Jon Stewart pointed out in his recent interview with Lewis Lapham, is, "Will we need guns?"
