Friday, January 21, 2011

Think Again...Or Even For A First Time

Writing to his usual standards of incomprehensible Latinate, George Will yesterday laid this egg:
The public sector's involuntary tendency to become, regarding productivity, a concentration of stagnation...
George, have you read your own column lately? You've been intellectually and stylistically stagnant for years. Moreover, you work for a newspaper still coasting on the Woodward-Bernstein Watergate investigatory reporting of the early '70s.

I hate to disillusion you (o.k., not really), but the private sector is as subject to stagnation as the public sector. Why do you think Toyota and Nissan kicked Detroit's ass? Why do you think the BP/Halliburton catastrophe happened? Why do you think that Apple ambushed every recording label in the world and took over the music distribution business? Should I go on?

What a minute...think...I guess I'm not being fair: I shouldn't expect thinking from someone who hasn't had a new thought in thirty years.

2 comments:

Roy said...

I shouldn't expect thinking from someone who hasn't had a new thought in thirty years.

*snort* Yeah, ol' George has been awfully stale for a good while now.

Taradharma said...

Poor George....