Here is the link to the article that got me thinking of a new project.
Potential paper title: The affective power of idiocy or, regurgitation that makes you vomit.
Here is one notable quotable moment:
While he was governor, Mr. Bush befriended a number of prosperous Indian doctors and businessmen, all Republicans, who captivated him as embodiments of the American dream and contributed handsomely to his campaigns.One of them was Durga Agrawal, the founder of a Houston-based company, Piping Technology and Products, who was born 60 years ago in a village in central India without electricity or a water supply. Mr. Agrawal went to high school 14 miles away and returned home, by bicycle, only every three or four months. He went from there to the University of Delhi and then to the University of Houston for master’s and doctorate degrees in industrial engineering.
“I really admire the professors in this country,” Mr. Agrawal said in a telephone interview on Friday. “We foreigners come, and they pour their hearts, souls and minds into us, and we do not speak like them, but they educate us.”
This is probably just some of that hostility I mentioned earlier; otherwise I might have an actual response to this. Maybe. However, the possibility does exist that Mr. Agrawal’s comment is, in fact, simply the regurgitation of neo-con-imperialist rhetoric on benevolent mastership; this expectoration is powerful enough to actually inhibit certain brain functions such as thought.
