"Denial of the truth envelops our culture like a suffocating fog."
-Arthur Silber

The man to whom the attribution goes is worth reading. If before you were on the brink of despair, his work will give that little tap on the steering wheel that sends you crashing through the railing. Find his work here: http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com

If you are not prepared for some unpleasant challenges to your tacitly held ideological assumptions, don't go. He attacks the complacency and ignorance and bloodthirsty savagery that constitute our national ethos with a rabid fury. He vivisects the motivations of our monstrous rulers, the men and women who have murdered a million Iraqis, made torture law and sold your future down the river. He crushes the myth of "change." He interrogates our blind slaverous worship at the altar of authority to the point of its origin in childhood, and beyond, into the ether from which subject and state are confected. His writing takes the form of a hammer that pounds away cruelly at the reader. These are cruel times of course, and here, finally, I've discovered a writer with the courage to break decisively with each and every one of the dangerous and childish fantasies that inform our political culture.

But don't worry, I'll guide this blog out of the no-fly zone of oppositional politics in my very next post. The Log Bird's cockpit may not be sound enough to brave this empyrean. We wouldn't want it to fragment in that lonely void, would we?

So: 101 ways to die on the mountain, coming soon to a screen near you.