If you fail to glean what Mr. Will must have said, exactly, so does ash. It’s simply too long gone.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s fury, ruling-class authoritarian George Will certainly has kicked into high gear of blame-the-victims mode.
His lectures by proxy often leave me wondering whom, exactly, Mr. Will thinks he’s addressing in his columns. As he bores the average reader with thick, inscrutable prose; disgusts intellectual liberals; and Lord knows Barack Obama is too busy contributing to the relief effort to bother with his nonsense, I suppose his audience must comprise elite conservatives seeking rationalization for their poor-be-dammed* policies lest their consciences be compromised by the horrifying images on the Gulf Coast.
Mr. Will’s harsh – and arguably irrelevant – implication that those literally left behind in New Orleans and figuratively elsewhere are primarily responsible for their own fates would be amusing in a less consequential context. In fact, I’m still chuckling over his contention that there’s nothing the matter with Kansas, that is, his feigned belief that gullible citizens in that state and others have not been exploited into voting against their self-interests by corporations with ulterior motives.
One can only speculate whether Mr. Will’s ultimate goal is to obliterate the middle class – the hallmark of an aristocratic society – and, while he’s at it, to take out many of the poverty-stricken as well.
*deliberate misspelling to circumvent profanity filters