When I said that I really hate Alan Moore sometimes, I didn’t mean all the time. While I think he has some deep flaws as a storyteller, and a lot of what he did was co-opted by a bunch of nincompoops (which is not his fault, but still); he got a lot of things very much correct. There is this thing on The Right, it is an affliction. It goes back at least to Ayn Rand, was preached from the mountaintops by Reagan, is ejaculated trashily today by Limbaugh and Beck. It is this sick belief that there is a clean, fresh-faced, intelligent, strong, unwaveringly moral group of people that know what is best; that can deliver us from evil. (And as with the dichotomy in the Moore point, this is not to say there aren’t many on The Left that don’t believe this about a certain opposing group of Super-Men! But still.)
Reminds me of that one part of Fog of War when Robert McNamara admits, in effect, ‘some problems you just can’t fix by being really smart.’
edit: username rendit’s post reminds me of that, not the newsmax editorial by known idiot John Perry
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