I Don't Know What Happened, Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Guess we were interrupted, darlings, so picking up where we left off, it is time to talk about David Brooks' Op-Ed piece on Jonathan Franzen in today's New York Times. The buzz on "Freedom" simply won't stop.

Mr. Brooks cites the acclaim of "Freedom," but I detect a bit of backlash between the lines. He says, In a smart, though overly biting review in The Atlantic, B.R. Meyers porotests against the casual and adolescent language Franzen sometimes uses to create his world." And that world is what people like Meyers do not want to acknowledge exists; where, in Brooks' words, "an America where the important, honest, fundamental things are being destroyed or built over--and people are left to fumble about, not even aware of what they have lost."

This is The Raving Queen talking now--those who are not aware were never aware of what they had to lose in the first place, because they chose to embrace nothing. This is the dumbed down vision of America that the baby boomer generation created, with its emphasis on technology and subsequent lack of feeling to the degree of all else. These are people for whom if the Internet vanished tomorrow could not function. Who think technology have all the answers. Such people are not only dumb, they are afflicted with major personality disorders; forget Borderline, honey, that is just the tip of the iceberg and are serial killer wannabes. Brooks finishes his piece by saying Franzen's American vision lacks "an alternative vision of the higher ground." When things like Facebook and Twitter are viewed as alternatives America is indeed in a sad state, supply just a means for the disonnected to connect without upping any of their social interaction skills. Kiss my ass, you techno jerks!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been saying this about America for years, darling! But you know I am such a bitch!!!!!!!!!! And I just LOVE it!!!!!!!!! Franzen says it elogquently and without being a bitch. Now if only those who NEED to listen to him would, instead of disciples like me who already recognize what he says is true!!!!!! If those who were in the NEED came over to THIS side, there MIGHT be hope for America. Hell, as long as those of us who feel this way do, there IS hope. It is just that the battle will take longer.

Remember that surprise ending of the 1968 "PLanet Of The Apes". We are slowly heading in that direction now. Not in our lifetime, darlings. I mean, what would Anna and Grace do??????

So stand up against the social injustice of technological bred ignorance!!!!!!!!! Meantime, girls, I will see you on the aisle at "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson." I will give you a full report, tomorrow, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sip sip those drinks, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!