Edmund Burke and the Fourth Estate
The following picture is from this weekend in Budapest via Will Pitt… neither the bloggers nor the main stream media told the story of the world’s revulsion at the American global anschluss as demonstrated in protests around the globe this last weekend. But Pitt has assembled a collage of reflections that’s worth examining. The Hungarians are tired of this bullshit, as are we all (Horowitz, the PNAC, and the Heritage Foundation standing aside as demented exceptions of course).
From Whiskey River…
"I become aware of the old Buddhist axiom of not striving. It seems clear that if I pour my energy into creating beauty and euphoria, this simultaneously creates an empty hole which I will subsequently experience as the opposite. The answer is equanimity - let things be as they are."
- Myron J. Stolaroff
Thanatos to Eros
Jonathon Delacour has a tortured assessment of Talleyrand and his life around the revolution, shards of meaning refracted through Bertolucci’s prism. Tom Shugart picks up the essence, that there is ennui associated with lengthy practice of anything good.
Meanwhile, how long before W. drives on to Damascus?
