Somebody sent me this note, and I thought it was good:
The goddamned book's a bestseller. Young has inked a movie deal. RH has a GQ photo shoot.
Our enemies are prospering on the graves of our favorite couple.
It's intolerable to me that Elizabeth should be erased as well as John. It's doubly intolerable that apparently, people LIKE the prurience-- even though "The Politician" has no psychological insight of JRE, people are lapping it up like ice cream.
All those months I spent studying sociopathy, coercive persuasion, etc. feel like a waste at this moment. Because I am powerless against the dominant narrative, and apparently people LIKE rewarding those two creeps. Even to the point of the Enquirer possibly winning its FIRST Pulitzer.
I just read a great article, linked to by Meteor Blades on DKos, which is originally from The New Republic, of all places. It's called "Labor Pains" and is about how we're forgetting the importance of not just creating jobs, but creating *meaningful* jobs. And of course, I thought of JRE... how he prospered doing work that was meaningful and that he enjoyed, how lucky he was to be an American doing that, in an economy full of mini-dictatorship retail and service establishments.
How that was what I most admired in him... and how making intellectuality sexy was what I most loved about their marriage. How much I wanted to talk to the whole Edwards family about how special and precious those qualities were, how America would be a much better, happier place to live if we could replicate that experience for as many of us as possible.
I want to get in touch with the "Labor Pains" author, Rochelle G., to tell her the same thing. I want to converse with as many people as I can about whatever pops into my head about democracy, and how to make our lives better.
I hope the people we love come out victorious against this all-out attack on their lives. I hope in the future, people remember the better sides of themselves and start talking about minds and thought processes rather than titillations.
While the media continues to feast on the Edwardses, the country continues to go down the toilet.
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