Andrew Klavin
A Strange Sort of Blindness
March 2nd, 2009
[contains spoilers from the middle of the novel Blindness]
One thing that has always astonished me is how leftists can be blind to the wisdom of the very arts they love and sometimes even the arts they create. How can you tell me you’re a Lord of the Rings fan and yet not understand that evil exists and must be defeated? How can you give an Oscar to No Country for Old Men and not realize that nihilistic chaos follows the breakdown of cultural norms and good manners? How can you read 1984 and continue to be a leftist at all?
I’ve just finished reading the novel Blindness. Its first pages are loaded with rapturous reviews from such stridently left wing mouthpieces as the New Yorker, the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. The author, Jose Saramago, is a Portuguese Communist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, which has itself become an instrument of leftist cultural engineering.
Filed under: Conservative Issues, Politics | Tagged: American Socialism, Communism, Liberal Bias, The novel Blindness
