Tom Wolfe and America? He loves the place, a position that puts him at odds with much of the charming aristocracy. He’s also an optimist about America — and American greatness. “The biggest problem,” says Wolfe, “is all the people who see a problem.”
"Charming aristocracy?" Just about the same type of assholes who self-designate themselves A(sshole)-Listers on the Net. That cohort of people would all overdose on pills if The New Yorker ever went out of business.
Anyway, Wolfe ... on the verge of Alzheimer's? Or has he always been unable to mentally compose and let loose with a sentence lacking a profusion of potholes?
He's wrong about the Vietnam War. I damn well can recall what was all wrong about it: it was undeclared, the draft affected the lowest classes (hey, Limbaugh, did you serve? I was months away from Selective Service lottery eligibility when it ended), we weren't in it to win, and its conclusion didn't stop the spread of Communism in Asia. Wolfe is either surrounded by fellow bumbling eejits or the drugs have wiped out their memories.
Drudge linked to this clip because Wolfe states he doesn't see any reason why there shouldn't be "eight hundred" American centuries. Again, I have to question the functioning of his mind. Does he really, really think what's going on now can be sustained? If he that out of touch with reality?
Well, look at the frikkin suit he always wears.
So yeah. Next!
(Christ, I didn't imagine til this very moment that I'd need a Category for "Writers -- Stupid"!)
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