(np) Hitch-22

[Michael Bailey]

>
> and plus, the pacifist solution in any given case would not involve
> enriching a bunch of war pigs


although that impulse would still be present, so maybe what a truly
intelligent pacifism will promote is not the moral equivalent of war
that James and Carter asked for, but the fiscal equivalent of war
(something like bubbles with the downside removed somehow) wherein
these people can get ridiculously wealthy without entailing
megadeaths...it could happen...


Anyway, I almost forgot my favorite line in Hitch-22, which is when he
was talking about meeting Edward Said, and although he didn't
completely agree with Said's line of lit-crit (leaving aside the
political which he also talks about) he felt that Said passed his
(Hitchens's) own acid test, which was to love literature "so much that
he wouldn't want to live another minute in a world without it" (or
words to that effect)