I’m going to try and not make fun of my adverts anymore that pay me so well. I don’t know what’s in me, I just can’t resist ridiculing these adverts, even though I’m making like $20 for just one post, isn’t that crazy? In fact, I get $1 every time you click my Google advert over there on the right. But I have a lot of fun blogging, and now it pays. Look, in America the main way to be a serious writer, and earn money at it, is to write about politics i.e. a journalist, and journalists are revered in this country—which they are not in Europe, particularly England. I dispute this, and seek the opposite, to become a successful writer based solely on my art. That’s why you constantly see me non-conforming, making fun of everything, and otherwise being disobedient. And why I mock these adverts. So if they still stick with me, then that is real confirmation of me as a writer, on this blog.
I think the debate about Obama’s Nobel is overblown. However, way to stick it to Bush. I don’t care much about awards. The Nobel is clearly political, even in literature, and always has been. Toni Morrison was given a Nobel for being a black woman, not her art. This kind of thing is rampant in America (in fact, although I always knew it, now that I confront it in reality it’s rather shocking and intense; it’s like having another form of criticism) but not so much in Europe, where they do respect writers more. However, not with the Nobel. I’ll probably win a Nobel one day “as America’s greatest playwright, for my vision which changed the entire business of publishing, and establishing new literary forms in writing and theater in America and the world.” Like Obama, I still have work to do.
What will Obama do in Afghanistan? I suppose he has to go with the general’s request; but the debate is good. I like this notion of national debate. I don’t ever remember this kind of thing happening. Actually, it started at the end of Bush’s presidency because he became so weak, the American people started to discuss things on their own, like a runaway jury, and the Internet was central in that dynamic, notably blogs. Then Obama showed up; the American people produced Obama, not vice-versa, so the wording of the Nobel is not accurate in that.
But unlike in Bush, with his control of the media, arguments that are nonsense are now critiqued. That much Obama has changed.
