![]() ![]() “I’ve never heard cries of rage so loud,” he says when asked what he was hearing, at that stage, from the American people. ![]() Those who want to examine life don’t go in for journalism, because they’re not allowed to.” “Socrates tells us that the unexamined life is not worth living. “I’ve been around the ruling class all my life and I’ve been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country,” he adds.Įxpanding on what he says is an inept media that covers the tracks of its corporate overlords, he says: Photo by AP Photo/Florida Keys News Bureau, Carol Tedesco ![]() 10, 2009 file photo released by the Florida Keys News Bureau, author and essayist Gore Vidal delivers the keynote presentation during the first session of the 27th annual Key West Literary Seminar in Key West, Fla. We were at the very beginning, when the Constitution was made, and we’re even more so now.” In this Jan. The people that made the Constitution hated democracy. And to believe that we’re a democracy, that means you know nothing about the Constitution. foreign policy since the Second World War has been “a fight for freedom,” Vidal says: When asked by Jay about the “fundamental belief” that U.S. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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