Not since North Korean media declared Kim Jong-il to be the reincarnation of Kim Il Sung has there been such a blatant attempt to create a necrocracy, or perhaps mausolocracy, in which a living claimant assumes the fleshly mantle of the departed.
Christopher HitchensMots clés death media reincarnation north-korea kim-jong-il bolivarianism exhumation hugo-chavez kim-il-sung media-of-north-korea simon-bolivar
In one was, I suppose, I have been "in denial" for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light. But for precisely this reason, I can't see myself smiting my brow with shock or hear myself whining about how it's all so unfair: I have been taunting the Reaper into taking a free scythe in my direction and have now succumbed to something so predictable and banal that it bores even me.
Christopher HitchensCheap booze is a false economy.
Christopher HitchensMots clés wisdom alcohol value economy
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.
Christopher HitchensWhat better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.
Christopher HitchensMots clés politics power history class government conflict
Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.
Christopher HitchensMots clés politics fictions washington-dc sleaze political-fiction
Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course when things are boring, to run the risk of repeating an old argument just one more time, or of going one more round with a hostile or (much worse) indifferent audience.
Christopher HitchensIf you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox.
Christopher HitchensNot to dampen any parade, but if one asks if there is a single thing about Mr. Obama's Senate record, or state legislature record, or current program, that could possibly justify his claim to the presidency one gets ... what? Not much. Similarly lightweight unqualified 'white' candidates have overcome this objection, to be sure, but what kind of standard is that?
Christopher HitchensMots clés united-states 2008 barack-obama united-states-senate united-states-elections-2008
For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.
Christopher HitchensMots clés civil-rights-movement race sexism white-people martin-luther-king-jr perjury united-states-senate identity-politics skin-colour united-states-elections-2008 caucasian-race ethnology
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