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Brian Eno’s article
in Time has been getting some coverage across the web today. There’s
too much in there that’s worth quoting, and my
<blockquote> key is worn out, so just go read it
already.

Well, OK, one quote. But not the same “Bush recently declared
that the U.S. was ‘the single surviving model of human progress'”
remark:

This narrowing of the American mind is exacerbated by the withdrawal of
the left from active politics. Virtually ignored by the media, the left
has further marginalized itself by a retreat into introspective cultural
criticism. […] Political discourse is now dominated by moralizing,
like George W. Bush’s promotion of American “family values” abroad, and
dissent is unpatriotic. “You’re either with us or against us” is the
kind of cant you’d expect from a zealous mullah, not an American
President.