Mark's Pages

November 11, 2009:

Semi educated, a walking well of prejudice and ideological slogans, culled from right-wing media and books titled "What so-and-so really said." Likes to argue - sees it as a mission. But he doesn't deal in arguments, only rhetoric, the manipulation of words, the kind of superficiality which for 2,500 years has given the term "sophistry" a bad name. Fear in the depths, the deepmost core, that he'll one day fall into the working ranks he so resents. The same psychology and social stratum the Nazis recruited in their mass period, 1932-33.