Karl Rove, Master Hyperrealist
I must admit I have some admiration for the fat ass. He went from a student Republican wonk to the architect of the most transparent coup America has ever witnessed. A direct-mail operative with no life to a presidential adviser responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of lives. Say what you want about the guy, but please stop calling him stupid. Same goes for his obsessive love interest, George W. Bush. These monsters are not stupid. They are brilliant. They've played and mastered the game that could drown us all.
I know I have been crowing about hyperreality a lot lately, and I apologize to those who are getting tired of the term. But when Karl Rove goes on Charlie Rose to mind-wipe America by insisting that Congress led the march to occupy Iraq and secure its oil reserves, I'm pulled back into hyperreality's vertiginous vortex without resistance. It is everywhere, kind of like The Force, or Jesus. It's the webwork we're caught in, all of us. There is no escaping it, especially if you live in the reality-based community. After all, it was most likely Karl Rove himself who told Ron Suskind the following:
I must admit I have some admiration for the fat ass. He went from a student Republican wonk to the architect of the most transparent coup America has ever witnessed. A direct-mail operative with no life to a presidential adviser responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of lives. Say what you want about the guy, but please stop calling him stupid. Same goes for his obsessive love interest, George W. Bush. These monsters are not stupid. They are brilliant. They've played and mastered the game that could drown us all.
I know I have been crowing about hyperreality a lot lately, and I apologize to those who are getting tired of the term. But when Karl Rove goes on Charlie Rose to mind-wipe America by insisting that Congress led the march to occupy Iraq and secure its oil reserves, I'm pulled back into hyperreality's vertiginous vortex without resistance. It is everywhere, kind of like The Force, or Jesus. It's the webwork we're caught in, all of us. There is no escaping it, especially if you live in the reality-based community. After all, it was most likely Karl Rove himself who told Ron Suskind the following:
