American Politics

Before I go I must bring you this article by Christopher Hitchens regarding the incessant lack of poetry amidst modern American politics. What's even more alarming is that Hitchens alludes to, and compares, Scorsese's Taxi Driver to our obsession with cliche. You may remember my comments made after watching Robert DeNiro's classic. Indeed, the office scene is crucial to our understanding of the underlying themes, and so too is the scene, for those of you who have seen it, between DeNiros character, Killer and fellow taxi driver, The Wizard; "[a man] becomes the job". Further evidence that our thinking processes are intertwined. (Why is it, by the way, that we are so interested in the next American president?) On the subject of Hitchens and American politics, this video is quite enjoyable, not necessarily for its arbitrary discussion, but for the very amusing montage of Hillary Clinton's mood swings: the seven stages of female emotion. As an epithet to this, I should also point out this video of Obama's dance; something which, I'm sure you'll agree, is of high historical and cultural significance, if only for its implicit racial backdrop.