What is it like to be Bush (#1)?
Asked by Woodward how history would judge the war, Bush replied: "History. We don't know. We'll all be dead."
Washington Post, April 17 2004
posted by awol | 7:14 PM
Cartel of Defiance
cartel of defiance (noun): 1. In medieval combat, a formal declaration, delivered by herald, of a combatant's intention to fight and refusal to submit. 2. An electronic assemblage of engaged and enraged citizens. 3. An intertextual mode of reading, writing, and thinking that puts the current political, cultural, and personal moment in dialogue with text/art from the past in counterargument to the ahistorical Memory Hole into which America seems to have slipped.
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1560 Sir T. Chaloner Let. 15 Jan. in Froude Hist. Eng. VI. 313 "Our professed enemies... instead of cartels of defiance, will send us solemn letters of congratulation."
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Martins:Have you ever seen any of your victims?
(Harry takes a look at the toy landscape below and comes away from the door.)
Harry: I never feel quite safe in these things. (He feels the door with his hands) Victims? Don't be melodramatic. Look down there.
(He points through the window at the people moving like black files at the base of the Ferris Wheel)
Harry: Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving for ever? If I said you can have twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stops, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money -- or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax. (He gives his boyish, conspiratorial smile) It's the only way to save nowadays.
Orson Welles and Joseph Cotton
the Third Man, Reed/Green/Korda/Welles
How much does Bush's own history -- which centers on being born-again, on quitting drinking, i.e. on a radical rupture with his past -- inform his "sense" of History now?
What relationship is there between the eleventh-commandment of the Bush administration -- don't look too hard at Bush's past -- and that hostility to history, or the future, in general ("we'll all be dead")?
And what does history look like in Bush's head?
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