QandO

June 05, 2004

Ah, the Compassion of the Left
Posted by Dale Franks

Michael Feingold begins his Village Voice review of Richard Foreman's play, King Cowboy Rufus Rules the Universe, thusly:

No U.S. president, I expect, will ever appoint a Secretary of the Imagination. But if such a cabinet post ever were created, and Richard Foreman weren't immediately appointed to it, you'd know that the Republicans were in power. Republicans don't believe in the imagination, partly because so few of them have one, but mostly because it gets in the way of their chosen work, which is to destroy the human race and the planet. Human beings, who have imaginations, can see a recipe for disaster in the making; Republicans, whose goal in life is to profit from disaster and who don't give a hoot about human beings, either can't or won't. Which is why I personally think they should be exterminated before they cause any more harm.

This opinion is presumably not shared by Foreman; you can gauge the breadth of his imaginative compassion from his willingness to extend it even toward George W. Bush, idiot scion of a genetically criminal family that should have been sterilized three generations ago.

It must be quite a play.

I wonder if the editors at the Village Voice felt any qualms at all about publishing a public call for the extermination of Mr. Feingold's political enemies.

Or, perhaps I just missed Mr. Feingold's subtle humor.

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