Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Gore Vidal: Anymore, he's better in print than in person


He's got a nice little essay up at Robert Sheer's truthdig.com. To my mind, this is the money quote:

I think it was Vico who noted that busy republics tend to turn themselves into empires. Certainly, the French intellectual godfather to the American republic, Montesquieu, warned that republics which took the empire route would cease to be republics all together, while Vico, in his cyclic view of human societies, saw
imperial republics evolving into dictatorships, chaos, barbarism. In the last five years American behavior in the Middle East has been barbarous and will not soon be forgiven. Meanwhile, the gas-oil junta has hijacked the old American republic through the artful use of great quantities of corporate and church cash in order to falsify the electoral tallies of easily hacked electronic voting machinery; means now exist to nullify or alter any election returns as happened in Florida 2000; in Ohio 2004
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2 comments:

Hecate said...

Sadly, yes.

Hecate said...

Sadly, yes.