August 3, 2003

• Clint Arthur is running for President as the Love Candidate in order to sell porn.
  
  It’s nice to see this kind of transparency in the electoral process. We know from the outset that Arthur speaks for the horndog who can’t get a date.
  
  That’s a segue into a book that hasn’t been released yet, called ‘The Middle Mind‘.
  
  My main problem with ‘The Middle Mind’ is that I’ve been saying this all along, but someone else wrote the book.
  

  In this groundbreaking and incisive exploration, acclaimed social critic Curtis White describes an all-encompassing and little-noticed force taking over our culture and our lives. White calls this force the Middle Mind — the current failure of the American imagination in the media, politics, education, art, technology, and religion.
  
  The Middle Mind is pragmatic, plainspoken, populist, contemptuous of the right’s narrowness, and incredulous before the left’s convolutions. It wants to protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and has bought an SUV with the intent of visiting it. It even understands in some indistinct way how that very SUV spells the Arctic’s doom.

  There’s an excerpt from a chapter over at boingboing.

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