Anodyne
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
 
"Like leaks in a house where the pipes froze" -- Bruce Sterling on Assange, Wikileaks, democratic culture's slow decline, & etc.

"The cables that Assange leaked have, to date, generally revealed rather eloquent, linguistically gifted American functionaries with a keen sensitivity to the feelings of aliens. So it’s no wonder they were of dwindling relevance and their political masters paid no attention to their counsels. You don’t have to be a citizen of this wracked and threadbare superpower — (you might, for instance, be from New Zealand) — in order to sense the pervasive melancholy of an empire in decline. There’s a House of Usher feeling there. Too many prematurely buried bodies."
- posted by cjb @ 7:07 PM


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