I miss the former times, when American rhetoric conceivably at least could make sense, in some imaginary world that sort of resembled the real world. We live in pure fantasy now. I do not know what our rulers are talking about any more. And they don’t either. They really don’t. These are not serious people. And the people behind them, the ones we don’t see, are nuts. This is psycho babbling.
There were signs of it in the past but it was contained. Look at Dr. Strangelove. It was all about psychobabble, and the attempt at containing it.
Start at 4m54s:
We’re we’re still trying to figure out the meaning of that last phrase, sir.
There’s nothing to figure out General Turgidson. This man is obviously a psychotic.
Well I’d like to hold off judgement on a thing like that sir until all the facts are in.
The facts are in.