Political Shorts
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Listening to John McCain’s speech tonight, I finally figured something out. It always leaves me uneasy when I hear his “my friends…” mantra, and I couldn’t think of why. Tonight it finally clicked. It reminded me of Huxley’s Brave New World:
“Good-night, dear friends. Good-night, dear friends.” The loud speakers veiled their commands in a genial and musical politeness. “Good-night, dear friends …”
Having gone through eight years of an Orwellian presidency (and no, this isn’t lefty paranoia; look at the public, and Congressional, record), are we seeing the first stirrings of someone who wants to govern in the Huxleyan tradition?
God help us.