mindless optimist
only antidote known to
rational despair
Once again adapted from the New York Times Opinion piece, The Conversation between by Frank Bruni and Bret Stephens.
Mr. Bruni is a contributing Opinion writer; Mr. Stephens is an Opinion columnist.
Today, in the conversation titled, The Fluffernutter Theory of Trump, they wrote:
Bret: Maybe now that the administration isn’t going forward with its $1.8 billion slush fund for Jan. 6 rioters and other allies, we can restore that N.S.F. funding?
Mindless optimism is the only antidote I know to rational despair.
Frank: In your despair you have indeed identified the big problem — Trump’s repudiation of expertise — and the administration’s inarticulate defense of abandoning ocean research is a tell.
That’s why I shared it. It’s the semantic sewage you pump out when you have no legitimate argument for your actions and nothing real to say.
The Trump administration destroys for the sake of destroying, to erase what its predecessors have done.
Nihilism is too grand a term for its approach, which is more like that of a schoolyard bully who steps on your Fluffernutter sandwich because he can and because he likes the sound of the smooshing and the gloss of your tears.
I really should have worked on this to get Fluffernutter sandwich into the haiku …
Maybe tomorrow.
Aside from that, I am not sure there has been a better summing up of current presidential situation.
The Trump administration destroys for the sake of destroying, to erase what its predecessors have done.
Nihilism is too grand a term for its approach, which is more like that of a schoolyard bully who steps on your Fluffernutter sandwich because he can and because he likes the sound of the smooshing and the gloss of your tears.
It is for that reason that I have to feel that this is all a hybrid hot house environment that cannot either sustain itself or recreate itself once that current man in office no longer is in office.
I have to think this.
Mindless optimism is the only antidote I know to rational despair.
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