Tuesday, December 19, 2006

News at Eleven: This poem reminds us that the powers

that be have appropriated the terms of our common language with a nihilistic disregard for meaning that makes what gets called postmodernism seem innocent. They have done this so often and with such sociopathic abandon that, like the boy who cried wolf, their cries of terror ring hollow even when, as now, they might refer to acute dangers requiring a full measure of response.

from The Brooklyn Rail: The Weatherwomen’s Terror

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