tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post5955765434086857138..comments2022-10-07T19:17:35.929-04:00Comments on Reading Richard Rohmer: Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-55018820698512844112014-07-05T22:30:38.163-04:002014-07-05T22:30:38.163-04:00Rataliation?
Unintentional. But should appeal to...<i>Rataliation</i>? <br /><br />Unintentional. But should appeal to anyone who thinks <i>Exxoneration</i> is clever.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-71819685859763093872014-07-05T22:27:33.081-04:002014-07-05T22:27:33.081-04:00Rohmer has always had trouble modelling his prime ...Rohmer has always had trouble modelling his prime ministers on Trudeau, primarily because he can't reconcile being intelligent with being a socialist. His best stab came with Louis Turcot in <i>Triad</i> because only intelligence was on display; we never got a glimpse of domestic policy. The PM in <i>Rataliation</i> is the worst by far because Rohmer tries to blend socialist Pierre Trudeau with businessman John Turner (who in 1982 looked to be Liberal heir apparent). The latter, by the way, once had a table at Winston's, just like the PM in the novel.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-32481588800644874952014-07-02T19:40:21.057-04:002014-07-02T19:40:21.057-04:00Rohmer is as perplexed by this new pseudo-Trudeau ...Rohmer is as perplexed by this new pseudo-Trudeau as he was by the last two. The PM is a utopian dunderhead AND a brilliant puppet master of international affairs. A Machiavellian stupid hippie.<br /><br />It's related to Rohmer's complicated feelings about Canada. He's a super patriot AND he thinks all our laws are idiotic. Because they needlessly screw up American business. <br /><br />Sure, America doesn't understand sovereignty, but Canada doesn't understand that nothing should ever get in the way of guys with access to capital buying and selling shit, especially any fluid that burns.<br /><br />I think Rohmer is a good guy. But it feels like he's working a problem that Stephen Harper finally solved, after decades: How to be a patriot and not love anything but money. The trick is to hold both ideas in your mind at the same time. And the solution is to not have any other ideas -- not one -- so the two remaining, contradictory ones never bump into each other.<br /><br />Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.com