Crackpot Realism

[rich]

I think that came after when they needed to justify the invasion w/o WMD
found. I thought Cheney and co wanted to deter others by being aggressive
and willing to use force. Remember the talk of taking out Assad? Even the
Iranians. Seeing where we're at now one can help seeing the irony. We need
Tehrans help against Isis and we want Assad to stick around.

rich

On Saturday, May 23, 2015, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Could be wrong, but I think sociologist C. Wright Mills coined "crackpot
> realism" circa 1960 for the kind of pseudo-realpolitik thinking that, e.g.,
> had the Bushies in 2002 envisioning Iraq as a beacon of freedom and
> democracy for the Middle East.
>
> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:57 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','mark.kohut at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> In an online fragment of a book about some "modern writers',
>> the (minor) novelist Melvin Jules Bukiet---one of whose books
>> pays overt homage to GR, I remember---called writers like
>> Thomas Pynchon CRACKPOT REALISTS long before Wood
>> found his descriptive adjective for REALIST. @1995.
>>
>> Besides exaggerated "reality" in description and characterization, he
>> found the use of coincidence
>> and chance instead of true-to-life plot movements to be a major part of
>> his meaning with the term.
>>
>> I like it better than HYSTERICAL REALISM (which shows Wood's
>> bias via verbal associations of Hysterical.
>> -
>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
>>
>
>
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