Hitchens

An excellent interview. My political interlocutors often accuse me of being a reactionary, semi-pompous, overrated pseudo-intellectual asshole and I am guilty :) Here is Hitchens a revolutionary, extremely pompous, overrated hyper intelligent intellectual asshole and that is why this Righty loves this Trotskyite Marxist in the grand tradition of the Democratic Left.

Notice all the books in the background appear to have been read and THAT is why he has something to say that is specific, knowledgeable, and always direct and logical.

The young, aliterate, protesters(although I agree with their criticism of the corruption of the American elite) should take notice. IF IF IF you want to be a real revolutionary, you gotta put in the work kiddies. Shoutdowns, monotonous semi-literate chantings led by a leftist professor, flash mobs, incoherent "DEMANDS!!" (how democratic of them), and hand signals to replace the words that are passe in your world of twittering gibberish aren't going to change the world. Put in the hard work of studying and thinking about the kind of country you want or you will continue to be what you are: the mobs and cannon fodder of any Right or Left Wing totalitarian who wants to use your "Demands!!" for his own ends. You are not the prelude to a revolution you are the beginning of a great devolution into a mind-numbing authoritarianism unless you remember again that the respect for a pluralism of thought and the plethora of words that they depend on is the only thing that will "change the world" for the better and not for the worse.