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Thursday, March 26, 2009
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HONEST OBE. What is there to say at the moment? It's all an Escher function, running continuously downhill without most people even noticing, especially the ones who are supposed to be most observant.
But the Escher effect is lost, the sense of motion curiously absent as the MSM continues to cover events as if they were normal political byplay rather than disastrous plunges off cliffs. When in your lifetime has the plummeting of the stock market been treated so, well, casually by the New York Times and the Washington Post? We're all just standing around yakking while the nation descends into ruin.
So, having said so much here already, so far in advance, it seems difficult to leap catlike on individual events as if what follows the tragic climax matters, even though it's only the specification of the now inevitable catastrophe. (See the definition of complex Aristotelian tragedy if you're still at a loss. Scroll to No. 4.) But we have been developing graphics for posts we just can't write. The one up top is a sterling example. So is the one below.
We know it's dumb to talk about ancient constitutional protections, but this archaic graphic popped up too. Forgive us.
All we can figure is that it has something to do with the peremptory return of the Churchill bust to the U.K. and the insuperable need to punish the rich with tax increases at a time when we need the rich to put their riches into the economy, not under the mattress.
So. It's not like we haven't been trying. If you have thoughts about what the InstaPunk gang should be commenting on, TELL US. We're listening. Not being lazy. Just nonplussed in the wake of so many predictions so soon fulfilled. (Don't believe it? Scroll down to the last two sentences of the second paragraph of this recent post.)
In fact, as a predominantly satirical website, we're feeling a lot like Evelyn Waugh, who when asked how he came up with the great satirical ideas that powered his wicked novels replied, "I don't write satire."
Everybody else thought he did. But it sure doesn't look like Michelle is laughing. Does it?
