The Gore narrative: Why he must run by Barcelona
Thu Sep 27, 2007 at 08:06:36 AM PDT
"The "inevitability" meme is beginning to set. Bill himself is being rolled out. Ordinarily this race would be all over but the counting. But the times we live in are anything but ordinary. In fact the urgency and magnitude of the challenge we and the rest of the world are facing call for leadership of historic proportions. I will argue that Hillary is not that leader. Though she is experienced, highly competent and immensely well-funded, she is the epitome of the hawkish, powerfully connected, corporate-funded Washington insider who are masterful only at the art of "politics as we know it". But most of all she lacks en epic narrative, one that taps directly into the Power of Myth. She is no visionary, nor are any of her rivals. And a vision of unprecedented breadth and power is what these parlous times are crying for. The era of business-as-usual, lesser-of-two-evils American leadership cannot continue. The stakes are simply too high.
Right now public opinion is being stampeded into accepting the impending coronation of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Party nominee in 2008, a media narrative four years in the making and now being carefully shaped by the power-brokers in the DLC and their fair-weather allies in the corporate media (with a little Rovian reverse-psychology thrown in by the usual suspects, to spice up this all-too-predictable horse race). Indeed, just like John Kerry's in 2004, after the media-fabricated crash-landing of the Dean campaign in the Iowa primary, Hillary's inevitability is wholly manufactured, by the power of money to shape opinion and of insider influence to block out others.
But there is another kind of inevitability, of a far more profound and unstoppable kind, the kind that sneaks up when nobody's looking and then in hindsight, seems blazingly obvious. One that appeals not to one's "lying eyes" but to the intuition, like a nagging certainty of a better tomorrow that fuels even the wildest hopes which even the corporate, consolidated media will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming into recognizing.Because it stems from an overarching narrative, that taps directly into the most ancient of human stories, common to all cultures across the centuries. the saga of the Hero:
(a) character that, in the face of danger and adversity or from a position of weakness, display(s) courage and the will for self-sacrifice, that is, heroism, for some greater good..."
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