Treacly Respect

I like the word treacly used in the title to this post.  It sweetly oozes disparagement.  I thought of this while reading a piece by David Gelernter in the Wall Street Journal titled “Too Much, Too Late." Gelernter’s piece expands on this sentence,

"My political credo is simple and many people share it: I am against phonies."

Billy Beck pointed me to the above piece, and Billy’s title to the link, and his few words on the subject, is titled “The Fakest Generation."

Posted by on 06/05 at 06:11 AM

  1. Billy’s post reminded me of an essay I’d read at the time Brokaw’s book had been published. More hints at its real significance here:

    “...in an interview with film critic Roger Ebert, Saving Private Ryan director Steven Spielberg referred to World War II as the ‘key, the turning point of the whole century...It was as simple as this: The century either was going to produce the baby boomers or it was not going to produce the baby boomers. World War II allowed my generation to exist.’”

    Posted by  on  06/06  at  07:53 AM

  2. There would still have been a baby boom. It would simply have produced lots of Hitler Jugend.

    Posted by triticale  on  06/06  at  08:23 AM

  3. Thanks for the link, Candidus, enjoyed the read.

    Posted by  on  06/06  at  07:18 PM

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