I love to read Steinbeck. I love the way he works the language like a fine vintner, wringing the very best out of the words that they can provide. If only he had something to say.<\/p>\n
Steinbeck was no fool, he had seen a lot of the world and knew what was what- but he had that ignorant sense of “Fairness” that all writers seem to have- the idea that if the people that have money would just give it to those who do not it would all be alright- and failing that, they should maybe be forced to do so. His visit to the birthplace of Sinclair lewis and his respect for him just makes it worse. <\/p>\n
Pascal says I shouldn’t use the word “Capitalism” because it is a Marxist construct; fuck that. A free marketer, a capitalist, is what he is, and because someone ignorant assigned it a label doesn’t mean that label is ignorant; it is a badge to be worn with pride. The idea that we should somehow be ashamed of it is just foolish. Use the enemy’s words against him, until he feels their sting.<\/p>\n
Anyway it’s irritating to me that the writers with real skills were the ones who had no actual sense of sanity- commies, hippies, morons. The world isn’t fair, and that’s the way it is. Anything you do to change that will only make it more unfair, and that is the simple fact; it has always been so and will always be so. For a good illustration of this from someone whodoes actually seem to be able to write and has her head out of her ass, go visit Sarah<\/a> today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I love to read Steinbeck. I love the way he works the language like a fine vintner, wringing the very best out of the words that they can provide. If only he had something to say. Steinbeck was no fool, he had seen a lot of the world and knew what was what- but he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}