(urth) Silk is Calde!

Gwern Branwen gwern0 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 07:12:44 PST 2008


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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:09 AM,
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>> I was rooting, a little less than whole-heartedly, for the other guy.
>> But certainly congratulations are in order for a historic night and a
>> remarkable man.
>
>> I wonder how that guy in Barrington feels. Although right of center, I
>> got the impression from AEG that Wolfe was pretty disaffected with
>> Bush.
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>
> A person can be disaffected at Bush and still be quite concerned as to
> what an untried liberal Democrat who came up out of what is perhaps the
> wackiest urban political scene ever invented might think is a good thing
> to do, with the best will in the world.
>
> Personally, I think that Gene Wolfe is a relatively profound political
> philosopher.

I don't. He's said too many silly things in interviews for me to take
him seriously on these sorts of things, like 'the West doesn't torture
animals or make fun of minorities and handicapped people because we're
Christian' (to paraphrase).

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gwern



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