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PARADISE PIRATES Intellectual Nihilism In The 21st Century MIT's Ted Selker recently commented on the BBC, "If we spend our time flitting from one thing to another on the web, we can get into a habit of not concentrating..." Considering the fact that today web surfing is the equivalent of television channel surfing, ubiquitous, the comment brought to mind a long-time friend of mine who is a columnist for ~New York Press~. Last year this friend wrote an article entitled "God Bless Our Attack Dog," referring to the efforts of former NYC Mayor Giuliani regarding New York's terrorist event. Having heard my friend lay democrat-tinged critique at the feet of Giuliani with abandon on many other occasions, I was rather shocked. Of course I appreciated the Mayor's efforts, but I also had not somehow contracted amnesia and forgotten Giuliani's rather convenient grasp of The American Constitution. A potent example found in the former public servant's (never call him that to his face) recent information coup in which he successfully sequestered, J. Edgar Hoover style, "public records" detailing his mayoral exploits into the private hands of one of his many Go Rudy orgs. I responded to my friend's article with one of my own entitled "Patriot Games," published on the ~MARS Magazine~ website, in which I pointed out to my friend and others the Reality Distortion Field deployed by the formidable politician. I never heard from my friend again. No refutation. No discourse. Nothing. The tacit message, a deafening and resonating silence, echoing through the mouths of radio, print, television and internet journalists across the U.S. Tow the line, or be knocked off-line. This anecdote typifies the faint whiff of something I had become aware some time ago, but only now can assert as tangible and widespread American phenomenon. The practice of intellectual nihilism. Somehow, a historically thoughtful person had allowed zeitgeist politi |
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