Capital Games: "'No one can now doubt the word of America.' "
George has a peculiar habit, and it's practically an institution by now. He will say things which have more than one meaning. For example, last night, in the State of the Union address, he says: "No one can now doubt the word of America.". Well, to some people, foreigners in particular, but not just them, it means that it is now illegal to doubt the word of America...meaning, frankly, him. A metonymy he stole.
Someone should ask him if that is what he means, and then make sure he clarifies it. As Erich Fromm once said: "Civilization was born in an act of disobedience...and is likely to end in an act of obedience."
