Commentary: George Soros is an interesting character. Many on the Right paint him as an evil genius who bought the Presidency for Barack Obama. While there is plenty of seeming evidence that is the case, my own research shows Soros’ political activities started much earlier. Both Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck are hyperventilating about Soros’ financial support for various Left-liberal organizations and that makes me want to look further into Soros, his beliefs and motivations.
Recently I was reading Soros’ book, The Crash of 2008 and What It Means when I came across the following nugget which gave me a new insight on Soros’ legendary Bush-hatred:
I had not paid much attention to the postmodern point of view until recently I did not study it and did not fully understand it, but I was willing to dismiss it out of hand because it was in conflict with my profound respect for an objective reality. … Recently, I changed my mind. I now see a direct connection between the postmodern idiom and the Bush administration’s ideology. That insight came from an October 2004 article by Ron Suskind in the New York Times Magazine. This is what he wrote:
“… In the Summer of 2002 … I had a meeting with a senior advisor to Bush. … The aide said guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernable reality.” … “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality – judiciously as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities which you can study too… We’re History’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.””
The aide, presumably Karl Rove, did not merely recognize that the truth can be manipulated, he promoted the manipulation of truth as a superior approach. This interferes directly with the pursuit of truth both by declaring it futile and by making the task more difficult through constant manipulation. …
If Suskind’s quote is true, Rove really is a cynical, evil bastard, no? I’ll be parsing Rove’s writing and pontifications much, much deeper now.
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Karl Rove is a guy who thinks he is a psychopath, but really is a narcissist.
He likes people to believe he's kind of a wizard of Oz (a narcissist), just to "wake them up".
He sees himself as realist, a psychopath though.
But he isn't, he IS a wizard of Oz and directly because of the power he sought and held, the whole world became worse off.
Just ignore him while the non-Conservatives try to save what is left of America. Trust in our courts and prison personnel.
I really have nothing against him personally, it's just that people as sick as he is should know themselves enough to stay away from power.
Karl Rove is about the lowest form of life on the planet as he is nothing but a very conniving liar who will do anything to destroy the credibility of others.
Why is Karl Rove still refusing to go before Congress on his involvement of sending former Governor of Alabama Don Siegelman to prison on charges that he Karl Rove helped fabricate. Karl Rove needs to have a warrant made for his arrest and needs to be then arrested and hauled to Washington in leg irons and handcuffs. They better put him on a lie detector and they will find the truth about Karl Roves involvement. The worthless scumbag Karl Rove needs to go to prison for the rest of his life and pay for the scandals that he has done that have affected others especially former Governor Don Siegelman of Alabama.
Soros has good instincts but doesn't understand the depth of what he discusses. Just as he claims to invent reflexivity as claimed in The Alchemy of Finance (which had been explored extensively through the Macy Conferences), he misuses the label of postmodernism. Indeed, the same "movement" he tags Rove with accused Bush 41 of manufacturing fictional imagery and creating war pornography via the first Gulf Storm (Jean Baudrillard, Illusion of the End). One who understands the exceptionally broad umbrella of the postmodern knows that it is useless to attribute any character or blame to the movement.
Do Rove, Axelrod and Goebbles fabricate and orchestrate? Without doubt. Is it meaningful to tag a broad philosophical movement for the causation? Absolutely not.
Anon:
Neocons and Left-liberals brought us to the mess we're in today. That anyone can expect them to "save what is left of America" is indicative of the snow job they still practice and too many still buy.
Mr. Gerard:
You may be interested in this closely-related item, and the book to which it refers, which treats the Suskind passage in detail. You will find it by googling:
Bill Israel and Stealing Reality and Express-News
Will Gerard:
When is the conservative movement and the Christian right ever going to take blame for anything?
Saying - even shouting - you have principles, and actually living up to them, are entirely different matters.
Why don't they rename themselves in "the movement that's always right, even when they're wrong" or something.
(For example, why is "fiscal conservatism" actually called the way it is?? Seems like an internal contradiction if you ask me.)
I agree that what you call left-liberals aren't really great either, but I do think the left is the best America politically has to offer at this time, sadly.
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