Buffy, The Moral Clarity Slayer

by: Paul Rosenberg

Sun Sep 23, 2007 at 18:08

But beyond the confusion about the nature of conspiracy theories, I saw something deeper at work--a distrust of the creative, artistic expression involved in the short film promoting Klein's book.  This sort of distrust is quite widespread.  It is, in part, a distrust of what cannot be rendered into cold hard factual arguments, at least the way that we define them.  We can see it in the legions who dismiss George Lakoff without ever actually having read him.  It is also, in part, a longstanding distrust between the political and the cultural left.  And that made me think of a short article I wrote for my paper back in 2002.  Because, you see, there are very important truths that can best--if not only--be told in the form of stories, which is to say, true lies.