“Somebody got them the way they are now,” the mayor of New York said in a recent interview as he sat in the bullpen offices of City Hall, surrounded by a buzzing staff, blinking Bloomberg terminals and clocks telling the same time in each of the five boroughs. “Why can’t you change them?”I’ll tell you, your honor, it all has to do with the fallacy of the perfectibility of human nature, especially through the agency of heavy-handed government, and very particularly when “perfectibility” is defined essentially to mean “tractability”. One reason we’re the "way we are" is because we resent having overprivileged idiots trying to micromanage our lives. Another reason is that we believe those idiots, in insisting on the self-evident truth of their prejudices, are actively undermining republican government by attempting to exclude genuine debate from the public forum of ideas.
Oh, and one other reason we are the way we are - perhaps not the most important, but nevertheless significant - is that you are an arrogant, preening, hypocritical ass. Good enough for the masochistic swarms of New Yorkers who keep electing you, I suppose, secure in the delusion that their celebrated brashness makes them riotously independent, when, in fact, they are nothing but sheep with an attitude; but of no use whatsoever outside your present jurisdiction.
Update: By the way, looks like you almost missed one, slick.
Nanny Bloomberg "...would rather rehabilitate Republicans than oust them."
ReplyDeleteIn other words, convert them to Democrats? Why would they (well, most of them anyway) want to do that? We all know "Republican" and "Democrat" are just labels to Hizonner (his "R" label was only applied, very conveniently, switching only when he ran for office, a life-long Democrat banking on Rudy Giuliani's popularity), but some of us still think there are fundamental differences between the two: R = individual liberty, D = "group rights", at the most basic.
In the outside world, the environment in which Saddam Hussein lived for example, the New York story which strikes a realistic note was The Godfather. There's a whole world out there where Tony Soprano is seen as normal, if rather luxurious and well-to-do with his middle-class American life.
ReplyDeletePeople like Bloomberg live in a bubble, insulated from reality.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately they are vway too influential - they should be exposed to reality, it would help the world.