Katha Pollitt in The Nation -- Intelligible Design--Accommodating

[Nay]

ourselves to the bleaker future that is being prepared for us-- Pollitt says it all. Here are some paragraphs from her opinion piece:


Sometimes I wonder if the future, in some strange metaphysical way, reaches down into our psyches and readies us to accept what is to come.

--snip--

Let's say, for example, that the American Empire is just about over.

Let's say China and India and other countries as well are set to surge ahead in science and technology, leaving reduced opportunities for upward mobility for the educated, while capital continues to roam the world in search of cheap labor, leaving a shattered working class. Let's say we really are becoming a society of fixed status: the have-nots, an anxious and defensive middle and what George W. Bush famously calls his base, the have-mores. What sort of shifts in culture and social structure would prepare us for this looming state of affairs?

A resurgence of Christian fundamentalism would fill the bill nicely.

Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism--biblical literalism--is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051003/pollitt


Please go to the link and read the whole piece. Good heavens. It all makes sense. It is what I have thought for quite a while, but I could never have put it so perfectly as Pollitt.

[Bill McBlueState]

1. Pollitt's always a great read

When I get my copy of The Nation each week, Katha Pollitt and Eric Alterman are always my first reads. Eventually I get around to the rest. :)