From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Jun 09 2002 - 23:21:59 MDT
At 09:00 PM 6/9/02 -0700, Hal wrote:
>> How remarkable, then, to find a thinker of
>> Dr Fukuyama's conservative credentials adopting just this view--while
>> warning us, inevitably, of the urgent need to stop it before we go blind.
>
>Great line!
It is indeed, but I can't take credit for it. A wonderfully sharp Aussie
political comic named Max Gillies used to garb himself convincingly on his
TV show as various notables--his astoundingly cruel portrayal of the dimwit
who's now our Prime Minister seemed for a time to have killed the man's
prospects, but Howard's resurgence proved how little effect caustic satire
has on the real world's behavior--and one of his favorites was the Pope,
who would come on in full white regalia and headgear, prohibiting and
banning and warning of perdition, always ending in tremulous Polish tones,
finger wagging, with that grotesque anti-masturbation slogan from the 1950s
and earlier: `Stop it, or you'll go blind!'
Damien Broderick
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