Geeks, falsification, and optimism
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 6:16 pm on 12/15/2004
Over the last year or two of political madness, I noticed a codeword that didn’t seem to get a lot of attention – “optimism.” For a while there, the right liked very much to frame those opposed to the war as “pessimists” and the president as an “optimist.” This is effective for obvious reasons, and it has the equally obvious (and just as clearly ineffective) rejoinder that the right’s definition of optimism often seems to be, “plug your ears and go LA LA LA LA LA.” But in the course of my these-days-casual investigations into geek theory, I noticed something that might run a little deeper.
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