[b]Dave Eggers
…my feeling is that if you’re not self-obsessed you’re probably boring.[/b]
And what a better world that might be.
First of all, I know it’s all people like you. And that’s what’s so scary. Individually you don’t know what you’re doing collectively.
Pick one:
1] liberals seen by conservatives
2] conservatives seen by liberals
You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but not powerless. But leave it to Christians to have a dead and bloody man nailed to a cross.
Or Americans to sing The Star Spankled Banner.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives it through the back of the garage.
I think I get that.
I worry about exposing him to bands like Journey, the appreciation of which will surely bring him nothing but the opprobrium of his peers. Though he has often been resistant - children so seldom know what is good for them - I have taught him to appreciate all the groundbreaking musicmakers of our time - Big Country, Haircut 100, Loverboy - and he is lucky for it. His brain is my laboratory, my depository. Into it I can stuff the books I choose, the television shows, the movies, my opinion about elected officials, historical events, neighbors, passersby. He is my twenty-four-hour classroom, my captive audience, forced to ingest everything I deem worthwhile. He is a lucky, lucky boy! And no one can stop me.
This probably explains Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr.
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person’s faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is committed by a Christian, do they mention his religion? … When a crime is committed by a black man, it’s mentioned in the first breath: ‘An African American man was arrested today…’ But what about German Americans? Anglo Americans? A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he’s of Scottish descent? In no other instance is the ancestry mentioned.
Simple enough for you?