tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post1271165039748617419..comments2024-02-12T03:04:46.091-08:00Comments on AttackingtheDemi-Puppets: Bad PropagandaKing Wenclashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7983462.post-16524665223560326592013-12-30T07:50:54.412-08:002013-12-30T07:50:54.412-08:00In my post I'm too polite. Anyone with a Hemin...In my post I'm too polite. Anyone with a Hemingway-style shit detector can see that to call Stalin an Objectivist-- i.e., follower of the ideas of Ayn Rand-- is a lie. Blatant; upfront: a lie. Bustillos then piles on other lies, and no one in the literary community had/has the sense or integrity to call her on it.<br />Ayn Rand is blamed for Greenspan's term at the Fed, though she was against the very existence of the Fed. It'd be like blaming basketball coach Phil Jackson for Michael Jordan's performance in minor league baseball! While you're at it, blame Jordan's high school basketball coach. After all, they were friends once.<br />The trick is that when the reader is bombarded with that many lies, distortions, and misrepresentations at one time, it's overwhelming. Too much to wade through. Could it possibly be wrong? Could it ALL possibly be wrong? The brain can't handle that much falsehood in one essay. Yet that's how today's literary propagandists operate.<br />**************<br />Will Bustillos, or Bissell, or the usually voluble Awl editors, or George Saunders, or anyone defend that well-hyped essay?<br />Don't count on it.<br />King Wenclashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13709139159194279478noreply@blogger.com