Jackie Danicki

Linus, on December 28th, 2006 at 8:02 pm Said:

Few truly gifted writers aren’t leftists or paleocons.

Mr. Ginsberg said that politics makes poets monstrous, but what he meant was that practical politics makes poets monstrous.

This is not to say that leftism or paleoconservatism in practice don’t lead to dark arrangements, the witch trials at Salem, the gulag archipelago.

What it means is that most of the human race is as yet less perfect than Mr. Dostoyevsky’s monk, or Mr. Eliot’s Magi, or the saints of Mr. Ginsberg’s poems, and Mr. Brecht’s plays.

Realpolitik is middlebrow, and usually barbaric. We need more not fewer people who will hold the human race to a higher standard than the New Republic or Weekly Standard, let alone the politicians.
Carolyn, on December 31st, 2006 at 9:34 am Said:

I loved The Color Purple so much that I went and read a bunch of Alice Walker’s work, and I hated almost all of it. :roll:

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