Thursday, March 30, 2006
What made the Herring - red and dead?
TRUTH. Suppose Truth is a red herring. Sans the fish-wife, just the fish, of dubious provenance and well-passed its prime. We are holding something that smells, and that has a sell-by date that expired somewhere at the threshhold of the origin of language. When we tried to talk about it, it died.
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RED HERRINGS. Nothing smells worse than ideology. A man with an idea, now there’s trouble. And when he goes on the offensive, he really is. Let me name names – Rush Limbaugh. This is a man with an ideology which lives on red herrings. What label is appropriate for an ideology that escalates all discussion into war, in order to accomplish nothing? All means are justified to Ends that pale in significance to the pseudo-end of seizing every means. Rush has spawned more red herrings than the sea. He is a fire in a fish market. He is a murder of crows in a hypocrisy of opinions.
ReplyDeleteLimbaugh. Tom, you are picking on an old drug addict. Ideologs need not be named, and of course, even when they are, they fade the man and elevate the metaphor. Why not name “Marxism” or “Islamicism” or “Evangelism” of any ilk or -ism, or -icrasy. How about “hypocrisy”?
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