The Good Doctor and Anger:Supporting cast including Hillary Clinton,Barack Obama and the Libyan Rebels

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syrias_reformer/2011/03/31/AFy4JFCC_story.html?nav=emailpage


‘Anger and indignation are tender blossoms that need care and cultivation to thrive, yet one must recall that their life and strength are short.’

Asian Proverb

 

The Good Doctor (TGD) has yet to learn that his employment of anger as his augmentative tool of first and last resort has reached the point of diminishing returns. He seeks always to destroy rather than rely on the telling question or even the insinuating statement. His rhetoric is a reminiscence of the raised voice as a methodology;  that speaks of a demonstrable weakness of argument. Perhaps this is a revelation of the weakness of Neo-Conservative bellicosity as answer to any question? Or is this strategy a tool of the intellectual bully, and as such a glimpse into the Nihilism at the ethical/philosophical center, of our thinker and his thought?

On the question of the uncertain and fractured leadership of Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the face of the unprecedented ‘Arab Spring’, TGD offers no information that could be of interest to policy makers or even concerned citizens. But he does offer hope to his partisans, that the  New Democratic rule of the President is an issue to keep alive, as part of a list of moral iniquities: to be cited in the 2012 Presidential Campaign, as a betrayals of the basic tenets of The American Political Theology.  

 

 

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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary
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